Director Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. crafts a complex, tense drama in Wild Indian. We at No Film School have been a fan of writer/director Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. for a long while. We spoke to him back in 2017 when he brought his short film Shinaab to Sundance. This year, he was selected as one of Variety's 10 Directors to Watch, and his feature Wild Indian was programmed in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. We knew his feature would be one to see. The film follows childhood friends Makwa and Teddo, who as kids cover up a shocking murder. Decades later, both continue to grapple with the event in vastly different ways. It stars Michael Greyeyes (who is Plains Cree from the Muskeg Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan), Chaske Spencer (who is of Sioux, Nez Perce, Cherokee, Creek, French, and Dutch heritage), Jesse Eisenberg, and Kate Bosworth. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 1 February, 2021