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The first full-length feature film written,
directed and co produced by American Indians,
"Smoke Signals" teaches about the value of laughter
and the power of stories.

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JEWISH WINS

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ews may well be able to relate
Indians, Smoke Signals is a tale of
coming to terms with universal truths
to the poetic parable found in
the new all-Native American
about the relationships between
film Smoke Signals, opening
fathers and sons.
The story begins on the Coeur
today at the Landmark Main Art
d'Alene Indian Reservation in Idaho
Theatre.
Simultaneously spotlighting the dif-
on July 4, 1976, with a frightening
house fire from which baby
ficulties of remaining a stead-
Thomas Builds-the-Fire is
fast "member of the tribe," the
Evan Adams,
saved by Arnold Joseph
madness within families and
foreground, with
(Gary Farmer). Thomas'
the strong bond that exists
Adam Beach in a
parents
perish in the flames.
between people of the same
scene from
Fast
forward
to 1 988 and
ethnicity, this movie strikes to
"Smoke Signals."
another wild Fourth of July
the core of otherness while at
parry-thrown by Arnold and
the same time entertaining
his
wife
Arlene
(Tantoo Cardinal).
through
a
goofball
sense
of
humor.
b
The Josephs spend the night in a
The first full-length feature film
drunken stupor, while their 12-year-
written, directed, co-produced and
old son, Victor, searches for escape
almost exclusively starring American

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Behild The
Scenes

Former Detroiter Carl Bressler is
executive producer of the award-win-
ning Smoke Signals.
The president and agent responsi-
ble for feature films and television at
Montana Artists, a below-the-line
talent agency, Bressler began in the
entertainment industry as a music
producer and concert promoter. He
studied entertainment law in Los

Angeles and was a student of Stella
Adler, working on the Los Angeles
stage as an actor for seven years.
Bressler's first independent film,
Dinner c Driving, a romantic come-
dy starring Joey Slotnick, Paula
Devicqa, Brigette Bako and Sam
Robards and directed by Lawrence
Trilling, was shot in 18 days in Los
Angeles and recently won applause at
the Cannes Film Festival.
No one offers you success in this
business," says Bressler, about the
making of "small" films. "You have

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