progress on the prairie

Hey y’all.  I just wanted everyone to know that Progress on the Prairie contributor Sterlin Harjo will be attending the 2009 Sundance Film Festival because his film BARKING WATER is premiering there!  This film is really, really good, and I’m not just saying that because I helped work on it.  Sterlin is such a genuine and natural story-teller.  Having known Sterlin and his writing for over 15 years, I am so proud of how he has used his talent to tell simple stories.  Like Pete Seeger said of Woody Guthrie: “Any damn fool can get complicated. It takes genius to attain simplicity.”    

You can see more about this film at barkingwaterfilm.com, and you can read an article about Sterlin in the Sunday Tulsa World. And just for fun here’s a picture of me working super, duper hard on the set of BARKING WATER in March 2008!