Andrew Troy’s ‘I Am A Man’ Among First Recipients Of Cherokee Nation Film Office’s Incentive
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Andrew Troy’s film I Am a Man – The True Story of Chief Standing Bear has been named as one of the first that will benefit from the Cherokee Nation Film Office’s tax incentive program, in support of filmmakers seeking filming locations and crew in Oklahoma.
The CNFO’s mission with its $1M incentive, announced earlier this year, is to entice more film and TV projects to shoot within the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation—following a recent influx of projects like Killers of the Flower Moon and Reservation Dogs—while also supporting Native stories and increasing the presence of Native Americans in every level of the film and television industry.I Am a Man is billed as an epic historical drama about the landmark Trial of Standing Bear vs.
the United States of America, which became a defining moment in U.S. history, as it helped to establish rights for all Native Americans.
When Standing Bear stood up in an Omaha, Nebraska court of law in 1879 to speak his now famous words “I am a man,” his heartfelt speech helped to reverse an ill-conceived law designed to repress Natives, which in an unlikely turn of events gave all Natives the legal right to be considered “human beings” under U.S.
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