Join us as we talk to filmmaker Josh Tickell about the amazing story of ON SACRED GROUND, released on January 13th in select theaters and On Demband. You know Tickell’s work on (Netflix’s KISS THE GROUND).

Learn more about the movie, here.

Noted for being the first narrative feature to depict the events at the 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, the film will be released in Select Theaters and On Demand the weekend of January, 13th 2023.

The cast includes David Arquette, William Mapother, Amy Smart, Irene Bedard (Disney’s POCHAHONTAS), Kerry Knuppe, Frances Fisher, Mariel Hemingway, David Midthunder, Che Jim.

Based on the true events during the 2016 construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that runs through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, the film follows Daniel (Mapother), a journalist and military veteran, and Elliot (Arquette), an oil company executive, who find themselves on opposite sides of the fight during the construction of the contentious pipeline.

As the story unfolds, the two characters go down separate paths during one of the most heated protests and confrontations with Native American tribes in modern US history.

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