Jesse Short Bull and David France's documentary tells Peltier's story all the way through President Joe Biden's commutation.
The warning comes after the joyous twist of clemency for the Indigenous activist, as shown in a Sundance film premiering Monday.
This is something that we always prepared for," producer Jhane Myers told Yahoo Entertainment about the documentary's contingency plan.
It’s not even past.’ It’s the sort of twist no screenwriter would dare invent: “Free Leonard Peltier,” a persuasively well-researched and often infuriating documentary about the American ...
President Biden commuted the life sentence of indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in a case long disputed by Native American advocates. Why it ...
In addition to exploring the activism surrounding the Free Leonard Peltier movement, the documentary also promises, using interviews and archival footage (including older interviews with Peltier h ...
The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.
She met Leonard Peltier when he was a free man in South Dakota while volunteering with the legal defense committee formed to represent activists involved in the 1973 takeover of Wounded Knee.
THE DOCUMENTARY FREE LEONARD PELTIER, IS PREMIERING AT THE UPCOMING SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. MYERS HOPES THAT THIS WILL INTRODUCE HIS STORY TO A BIGGER COMMUNITY. WE HAVEN’T SEEN A LIST OF THE ...
Late in Jesse Short Bull and David France’s new documentary Free Leonard Peltier, Native activist Nick Tilsen sings the praises of Leonard Peltier’s sense of humor but expresses a note of concern.
While not a pardon, this pivotal move came just a week before the premiere of Free Leonard Peltier, a documentary about the American Indian Movement (AIM) activist, which was scheduled to debut on ...
But “Free Leonard Peltier” makes it very clear what a terrible injustice it has been for the serving of justice to have taken so much time. The final moments might make you smile, or maybe ...