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Native filmmaker draws on Flathead upbringing

It’s a big leap, going from producing a 15-minute short film to making a feature-length one.

But a woman who spent her childhood on the Flathead Indian Reservation started on a path last week that could help her make the jump.

Brooke Swaney is in New Mexico over Memorial Day weekend for the first of a two-stage development program sponsored by Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. She’s one of four fellows and projects chosen for Sundance’s 2012 NativeLab Fellowship, which provides continuous and direct support to Native American, Native Hawaiian and Alaskan Native filmmakers.

She took her script, with the working title "Circle," with her.

By VINCE DEVLIN of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/native-filmmaker-draws-on-flathead-upbringing/article_24ba4168-a7a6-11e1-8e70-001a4bcf887a.html

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