Filmmakers Jim Sheridan & Andrew Troy Team For ‘I Am A Man: The True Story Of Chief Standing Bear’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Six-time Academy Award nominee Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father) has inked a deal to co-write, direct and produce the historical drama I Am a Man: The True Story of Chief Standing Bear with Andrew Troy.
The film with formal Resolutions of Support from the Ponca Tribe will depict the Ponca’s “Trail of Tears” march that led to the 1879 landmark trial of Standing Bear vs.
the United States of America. This mostly unknown legal case helped all Native Americans to be considered “human beings” under the law, also setting legal precedent for many future civil rights matters within the U.S.
courts. Troy has spent the last decade developing the project, while working to gain the support of U.S. and state officials and Native Americans alike.
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