SOMEPLACE BETTER

 -when two worlds collide and there’s no where else to go-

A vivid portrayal of the strains of our Indian people living in both contemporary and traditional worlds, mixed with the influence of Drugs and Alcohol.  Explicit life-like and heart wrenching scenes are conveyed most realistically by native actors, both youth and elders.   An archival scene similar to early residential school abuse opens the film in a dream sequence, interweaving the history of yesterday to today.

Selected for showing at the Sundance Film Festival, due to its excellence, the description was as follows: “Someplace Better is a shoot-out between ancient custom and federal law.  Holding both guns is a native police officer who is forced to take sides when an old widower kills his grandson in self defense.  The stakes rise when the old man wants to travel to the other side of life where his wife and eternity wait.  But a red-neck corporal has other plans.  The three men stand-off at a cultural crossroads:  one man laying down the law…one man challenging it….and one man torn between two worlds.