INDIAN RELAY

Following three teams as they prepare for and compete across a grueling Indian Relay season, INDIAN RELAY is a unique, present-day American Indian story full of beauty, hope, determination and excitement.

2014 Emmy Award Winner: Cultural Documentary, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Northwest Region

2014 Emmy Award Winner: Photography, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Northwest Region

2014 Spur Award Winner: Best Documentary Script, Western Writers of America

Selected for PBS' Independent Lens: 932 broadcasts across the USA + repeats, 97% coverage, > 1,577,986 primetime US viewers

Selected for the "Beautiful Games: American Indian Sport and Art" Special Exhibit. Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona

Winner: Audience Award – Best Native American Film: 2015 Durango Film: An Independent Film Festival

Best Action Film: 17th Annual Native American Indian Film & Video Festival of the Southeast, Columbia, South Carolina

Shown twice at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NYC) as part of the "Native Games / Native Stories" and "Rocky Mountain Time" programs

Funded in part by ITVS

Funded in part by Vision Maker Media

2014 Big Sky Film Festival Official Selection

Comanche Nation College Film Festival Official Selection

Equus Film Festival NYC Official Selection

Opening Night Film: 2014 Interchange Film Festival, Bozeman, MT

57:15 version of the film on MontanaPBS

Before Katie Gilbertson cut the film down to size, I cut it to 1:50:10 (Yep. Director’s Cut!)

MontanaPBS mini-website

Indian Country Today 2

High Country News

Independent Lens Blog Q&A with Charles Dye