Misty Upham

Frozen River -- Life in Massena is as harsh and barren as the frigid landscape. In this bleak terrain, two hardened single mothers are trying to make lives for their children. Lila is a widowed Mohawk whose mother-in-law 'stole' her newborn son a year ago. Ray is a mother of two whose gambling-addicted husband just left town with the down payment for their new trailer home. Faced with little opportunity to mak...

Skins -- For Police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge, the painful legacy of Native American existence on an Indian reservation is brought home every night as he locks up the drunk and disorderly, which frequently includes his own alcoholic brother, Mogie.

Grappling with repressed memories of his combat experiences in Iraq and struggling with the tedium of ordinary home life, an American war vet tries to break out of his isolation by embarking on a road trip with a buddy from the Army.

Suffering from severe memory loss, a young Iraq war vet leaves a loving wife and family for a cross-country road trip with an Army buddy. But resurfacing memories prove too much for him and trigger a violent breakdown that threatens the life he is fighting to rebuild.

Life in Massena is as harsh and barren as the frigid landscape. In this bleak terrain, two hardened single mothers are trying to make lives for their children. Lila is a widowed Mohawk whose mother-in-law "stole" her newborn son a year ago. Ray is a mother of two whose gambling-addicted husband just left town with the down payment for their new trailer home. Faced with little opportunity to mak...

Life in Massena is as harsh and barren as the frigid landscape. In this bleak terrain, two hardened single mothers are trying to make lives for their children. Lila is a widowed Mohawk whose mother-in-law "stole" her newborn son a year ago. Ray is a mother of two whose gambling-addicted husband just left town with the down payment for their new trailer home. Faced with little opportunity to mak...

A woman on New York's Mohawk Reservation takes up illegal-immigrant smuggling to survive.

In the shadow of Mt. Rushmore, one of America's favorite tourist attractions, lies one of her poorest counties, The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. For Police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge, the painful legacy of Indian existence is brought home every night as he locks up drunk and disorderly Indians, which frequently includes his own alcoholic brother, Mogie. Rudy's frustration with the alcoholism on the 'rez' leads him to take the law into his own hands, but his trail of vengeance ends tragically when he unwittingly injures Mogie. Ironically, their relationship achieves redemption after Rudy's tragic error in judgment, and the brothers begin the process of mending their fractured relationship. Ultimately, Rudy is able to honor his big brother, as well as his people, with one exhilarating and life-affirming act of defiance, revealing the redemptive power of the love between the two brothers.

For Police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge, the painful legacy of Native American existence on an Indian reservation is brought home every night as he locks up the drunk and disorderly, which frequently includes his own alcoholic brother, Mogie.

For Police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge, the painful legacy of Native American existence on an Indian reservation is brought home every night as he locks up the drunk and disorderly, which frequently includes his own alcoholic brother, Mogie.

A police officer patrolling one of the nation's poorest counties, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, lashes out at the problems of poverty and alcoholism which plague his county and in doing so accidentally injures his older brother.

'In the shadow of Mt. Rushmore, one of America's favorite tourist attractions, lies one of her poorest counties, The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. For Police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge, the painful legacy of Indian existence is brought home every night as he locks up drunk and disorderly Indians, which frequently includes his own alcoholic brother, Mogie. Rudy's frustration with the alcoholism on the 'rez' leads him to take the law into his own hands, but his trail of vengeance ends tragically when he unwittingly injures Mogie. Ironically, their relationship achieves redemption after Rudy's tragic error in judgment, and the brothers begin the process of mending their fractured relationship. Ultimately, Rudy is able to honor his big brother, as well as his people, with one exhilarating and life-affirming act of defiance, revealing the redemptive power of the love between the two brothers. '