Having made lifelong friends in South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation when shooting 'American Honey,' Keough returned year after year with Gammell and eventually began crafting a unique and collaborative film with local writers Franklin Sioux Bob and Bill Reddy, as well as producers Willi White and Pte Cante Win Poor Bear.
Although Gammell is at pains to acknowledge the many hands that went into the film’s creation, she says thatis a film “made by the community for the community.” Collaboration and honesty throughout wasn’t just absolutely key, but ran through the entire fabric of the film’s development.
For Sioux Bob, there was simply no way he would lend his voice to anything like this. “I wasn’t going to co-sign a story that talks about natives but is told by an outsider. We’ve already seen that plenty of times.” “It wasn’t super cohesive, we were just messing around, making art and hanging out in our 20s,” says Keough.
But a creative turning point came after a few years of visits to Pine Ridge, when Reddy’s beloved dog, a Pitbull called Beast, passed away. Hit hard by the loss, the group went to the nearby Black Hills mountain range, where Babe said a prayer.
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