Free Leonard Peltier

Special one-night only screening with Q&A featuring Leonard Peltier joining via zoom and  producer Jhane Myers in-person! Presented with support from the Indian Territory Film Festival and The Flint Family Foundation. Q&A moderated by Sunrise Tippeconnie with the Reel Indigenous podcast.

All admission is FREE and open to the public, first come first serve.

About the film: Acclaimed directors Jesse Short Bull and David France revisit one of the most discredited convictions in modern America to chronicle the five-decade campaign to exonerate the most famous living Native American activist. With astonishing archival footage and AI recreations, the film brings alive the turbulence of the 1970s, when the US government cracked down on the American Indian Movement as it protested centuries of anti-Indian injustice and oppression. Leonard Peltier, one of its leaders, became the most notorious casualty in 1975 when the FBI descended on the Pine Ridge Reservation where he and others were staying. The ensuing shootout left one Indian and two FBI agents dead, and trapped Peltier in a Kafkaesque nightmare no lawyer in 50 years could resolve. In FREE LEONARD PELTIER, a Native-led film crew follows as Native advocates reexamine the case and, in a historic turn of events, finally manage to bring their elder home.

About Jhane Myers: JHANE MYERS (Producer) is a Producers Guild of America nominee and two time Emmy award winning filmmaker, as a member of the Comanche and Blackfeet Nations, she is recognized for her passion and dedication to films surrounding and preserving the legacies of Native communities.

Most recently her new documentary “Free Lenard Peltier” premiered at the Sundance film festival 2025, a mere 7 days after President Biden granted him executive clemency through a commutation.  She was a 2024 Gotham Film and Media Institute/ Cannes Film Festival Producer fellow as the first Native fellow.  She was also an advising producer on the popular Ralph Lauren x Naiomi Glasses collaboration campaign which was the first Native  Artist in Residence program.

As an originator of Native community engagement she has established herself as a vital cultural and community resource for Native-content projects produced by the networks and studios, which over the years have included: producer for the Primetime Emmy winning  “Prey” (20th Century/Hulu/Disney) “1883” (Paramount); “The Wilds” (Amazon); “Monsters of God” (Plan B/TNT); “Magnificent Seven”  (MGM/Columbia Pictures); “Wind River” (Weinstein Co.); “The Lone Ranger” (Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films); and “Apocalypto” (Icon Ent./Touchstone).

Myers produced the Sundance short “the Daily Life of Mistress Red” and “Rude Girl” in 2022, and the Emmy winning documentary “However Wide the Sky: Places of Power” for Silver Bullet Productions in 2021. She served as executive producer on the acclaimed opera “Sweet Land 2020,” which the Music Critics Association of North America bestowed with it best new opera award in 2021.

Myers was a producer on the documentaries “Defending the Fire” (2017), about Native American veterans, and “LaDonna Harris Indian 101,” about acclaimed Comanche activist LaDonna Harris, which aired on PBS in 2014. In 2018, she served as on-camera talent for PBS’ “Native America” series episode 4 on the Comanche.

As a Producing Fellow in the Indigenous Program at the Sundance Institute in 2017 she was selected for the fellowship through a national competition with the project “Words from a Bear,” a documentary on the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa author N. Scott Momaday, broadcast in 2019 on PBS’ American Masters. In 2018 she was selected as a Time Warner Storyteller Fellow.

Myers chairs the Santa Fe Community Foundation’s Native American Advised  Fund (founded by renowned sculptor Allan Houser), and the community-conscious Silver Bullet Productions whose mission is to empower Native youth through the art of filmmaking. She is a member of the Polo Ralph Lauren Native American and Indigenous Advisory Council.