DreamKeeper (TV)

Cuvar snova – Croatian title

DreamKeeper – Finnish title

DreamKeeper – Greek title

DreamKeeper – German title

Álomőrzők – Hungarian title

El cazador de sueños – Spanish title

El guardián de los sueños – Spanish title

DreamKeeper – English title

A 2003 U.S.A., Canadian, German television co-production [CPTC (Toronto), RTL Productions (Germany), Sextant Entertainment Group (Hollywood)]

Producer: Ron McLeod, Matthew O'Connor

Director: Steve Barron

Story: John Fusco

Teleplay: John Fusco

Photography: Jon Joffin [color]

Music: Stephen Warbeck

Running time: 2 episodes x 54 minutes

Cast:

Grandpa - August Schellenberg

Shane - Eddie Spears (Edward Spears II)

Iktome - Gary Farmer

Coyote - John Trudell

Eagle Boy - Chaske Spencer

Quillwork/Powwow girl – Teneil Whiskeyjack

She Crosses the Water - Alex Rice

Thunder Spirit - Michael Greyeyes

Old Pawnee Woman - Tantoo Cardinal (Rose Cardinal)

Dirty Belly - Dakota House

High Horse - Sean Wei Mah

Mae Little Wounded/Blue Bird Woman – Sage (Sage Galesi)

Kills Enemy - Gordon Tootoosis

Iron Spoon - Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman

Janine - Sheila Tousey

Red Headed Stranger /Tehan – Scott Grimes

Thin Elk’s Wife - Victoria Aberdeen

Grandfather Stone – George Aguilar

Broken Lance – Nathaniel Arcand

Crow Hunter – Gerald Auger

Little New Rider – Sekwan Auger

Fourth Brother – Zachary Nola Auger

Two Lodges – Joanne Badger

War Chief – Russell Badger

Second Brother – Simon Baker

Raven – Lawrence Bayne

Old Kiowa – Clifford Crane Bear

Young Pawnee – William Belleau

First Brother – Terry Bigcharles (Terry Big Charles)

Hunter – Stan Big Sorrel Horse

Big Bow – Patric James Bird

Sam – Gil Birmingham

Dog Soldiers – Jonathan Brewer, Colin Van Loon

Ogalala Lakota warrior – Wright Bruised Head (Wright Bruisedhead)

Sky Woman – Casey Camp-Horinek

Red Deer – Tokala Clifford

Young Lakota Woman – Stacy DaSilva (Stacy Da Silva)

Little Hand – Kyle Daniels 

Third Brother – William Daniels

Brother – Joseph Darwish

Ekuskini – Travis Dugas

Carve Woman – Gloria Eshkibok

Crosses Father - Leonard George

Buffalo Runner – Jerry Dale Giroux

Old Medicine Man – Saginaw Grant

Mohawk Farmer – Lenne Greenwood

Pretty Woman – Kimberly Norris Guerrero

Shadow Catcher – Stephen Hair

Buffalo Bull – Al Harrington (Tausau Ta'a)

Multnomah Elder – Jimmy Herman

Crosses Clan Mother – Margo Kane

Iktome’s wife – Geraldine Keams

Lakota Child – Julian Kootenhayoo

Pawnee Elder – Michael Lamouche

Lakota woman – Alexandra Lazarowich

Young Clatsop hunter – George Leach

Young soldier – Dave Leader

Verdel – Nathan Chasing Horse (Nathan Chasing His Horse)

Sixth brother – Cody Lightning

Crystal Hart – Georgina Lightning

B Dog Soldier – Cory Little Light

Soldiers – Darren Lucas, Steve Strachan (Stephen Strachan)

Little Brother - Mato

Colonel – David McNally

Young High Horse – Niall Own Chief

Young Red Deer – Vincent Papequash

Old Multnomah Columbia River Woman – Wilma Pelly

Oglala Lakota Chief – Sykes Powderface

Thunder Boy – Griffin Powell-Arcand

Old woman – Edna Rain

Pawnee girl – Sheena Shymanski

Ghost Hunter – Sammy Simon

Multnomah Columbia River Chief – Cliff Solomon

Thin Elk – Anthony Starlight

Talks A Lot – Delanna Studi

Morning Horse – Michelle Thrush

Whirlwind Dreamer – Tyrone Tootoosis

Salmon Hunter p – Helmer Twoyoungmen

Chief’s daughter – Misty Upham

Fifth brother – Sarain Waskawitch

Wrangler – James Weldon

Thin Elk’s wife – Bertha Twin

With: Lesia Bear

Stuntmen: Allen Bruised Head Allen Bruisedhead, Marty Wiloman Chiefcalf (Marty Chiefcalf),

Arthur Sonny Clegg, Chad Cosgrave, Tom Eirikson, Ben Lewis, William Linders, Juddson Keith Linn, Cam Sutherland, Brent Woolsey, Ken Zilka, Lesia Bear, Jim Finkbeiner, Terrance Leigh, Shawn C. Orr, Dwayne Wiley

In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is in trouble owing money to some bad guys, to take his old pony and him to Albuquerque to the great powwow, an Indian meeting. The plot unwinds as the two travel from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota to the fictitious 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 Indian identity.

This made for television film was co-produced by Canada, U.S.A. and Germany. Filming lasted four months and took place mainly in Canada. Representatives of the Lakota, Kiowa, Cheyenne, Pawnee, Blackfeet, Mohawk and Crow tribes came on board the film to evaluate the authenticity of the production during filming and to suggest changes. Some scenes involved shooting a stampeding herd of 1,500 buffalo.

The production was awarded: 2003, American Indian Film Festival: Best Film: 2004, Emmy Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special: 2004 Humanitarian Award—John Fusco—First Americans in the Arts.

YouTube Trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGLNfhtHqWs