On Sacred Ground

[Opens Jan. 13 in select theaters and on various VOD platforms.] When a conservative, PTSD-afflicted military veteran and journalist (William Mapother), who leaves his pregnant wife (Amy Smart) in Ohio, is hired by a duplicitous "Houston Daily" editor (Frances Fisher) to write favorably of the oil companies while covering the protests surrounding the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, which runs through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota, in 2016 in Josh Tickell and Rebecca Harrell Tickell's compelling, factually based, moving, ire-inducing, intense, well-acted, 86-minute film, he finds himself at odds with a bigwig oil company executive (David Arquette) after he sides with more than 15,000 protesters (Mariel Hemingway, Irene Bedard, David Midthunder, Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas, et al.) trying to protect Lakota-Sioux-owned sacred land and precious water.
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