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Powwow Highway is a Native American 1989 independent [1] comedy-drama film from George Harrison's HandMade Films Company, directed by Jonathan Wacks. Based on the novel Powwow Highway by David Seals , it features A Martinez , Gary Farmer , Joanelle Romero and Amanda Wyss .
Seals wrote fiction, non-fiction, essays and plays. [1] His 1979 novel, The Powwow Highway, was made into the film Powwow Highway, starring A. Martinez and Gary Farmer.It was produced by George Harrison's Handmade Films, and featured appearances by Wes Studi, Graham Greene, Seals' son, Sky Seals, and Seals' then-wife Irene Handren-Seals.
Jonathan Philip Wacks is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.. He has directed a number of films including Powwow Highway, produced by George Harrison.The film won the Sundance Film Festival Filmmaker’s Trophy, was nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards, and won awards for best picture, director, and actor at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco.
As an actor, he had minor roles in several Westerns, and a character in the 1989 film Powwow Highway, "Buddy Red Bow", was based on his life. [6] Death.
Adolfo Larrue Martínez III (born September 27, 1948), credited as A Martinez, is an American actor and singer.He had roles in the daytime soap operas Santa Barbara, General Hospital, One Life to Live, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Days of Our Lives, and the primetime dramas L.A. Law, Profiler, Longmire and Dark Winds.
Track 29 is a 1988 psychological drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Theresa Russell, Gary Oldman, Colleen Camp, Sandra Bernhard, Seymour Cassel, and Christopher Lloyd. It was produced by George Harrison's HandMade Films with Rick McCallum. The film was nominated for and won a few awards at regional film festivals. [2]
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The plot unwinds as the two travel from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota to the All Nations powwow in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a trip the grandson takes only under duress. Along the way, the grandfather tells his grandson various Indian stories and legends to help him understand and choose the "good red road," i.e. to embrace an ...