FilmRise Drops First Trailer for ‘Missing From Fire Trail Road’ About Crimes Against Indigenous Women (EXCLUSIVE)
09.04.2024 - 17:19
/ variety.com
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent New York-based group FilmRise has dropped a gripping first trailer for “Missing From Fire Trail Road,” Sabrina Van Tassel (“The State of Texas vs. Melissa“)’s documentary film about the crimes against indigenous women.
“Missing From Fire Trail Road” sheds light on the case of Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis, a Native-American woman who disappeared in 2020, and exposes how hundreds of indigenous women continue to go missing in the US, perpetuating trans-generational trauma on Indian reservations. Van Tassel joined forces with Deborah Parker, an outspoken activist and former vice chairwoman of the Tulalip
Tribe who serves as executive producer on “Missing From Trail Road.” The docu was produced in association with FilmRise and Canal+ Docs.
Aside from telling the story on Johnson-Davis, “Missing from Fire Trailer Road” also looks at the responsibility of complex tribal jurisdictional issues in creating legal loopholes on Indian reservations, as well as the lack of reporting. Van Tassel argues these factors have led Indian reservations to become hunting grounds for serial rapists and large-scale sex-trafficking.
A number of high profile talent have sounded the alarm on the prevalence of missing and missing Indigenous women, notably Lily Gladstone, the advocate and Golden Globe actor of “Killers of the Flower Moon,” who supports the film and its social justice mandate. Early in her career, Gladstone played Parker in the documentary theater piece “Silver of a Full Moon.” Upon receiving an award at Variety’s Power of Woman event, Gladstone paid tribute to Parker’s work to protect Indigenous women and described her as the “fantastic trial chairwoman of the Tulalip nation and a boardmember for
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