Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone has lined up a reunion for her new movie Jazzy, which serves as a companion piece for The Unknown Country.
Gladstone will reunite with filmmaker Morrisa Maltz for the follow up to their acclaimed drama The Unknown Country, which Glastone will executive produce (via Deadline).
In The Unknown Country, Gladstone played the grieving Tana, who on a lonely road trip across America meets a character named Jazzy, a young Oglala Lakota girl from South Dakota played by Jasmine Bearkiller Shangreaux.
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In Jazzy, Shangreaux's character takes centre stage with Gladstone playing a supporting role in the youngster's journey. The film will follow Jazzy and her peers as they grow up over the course of six years, navigating the transformation from childhood to adulthood.
Starring alongside Gladstone and Shangreaux is Syriah Fool Head Means as Jazzy's best friend Syriah. Raymond Lee and Richard Ray Whitman also star.
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Returning to the project having previously worked with writer, director and producer Maltz on The Unknown Country is producer Lainey Bearkiller Shangreaux, writer Vanara Taing, director of photography Andrew Hajek, and composers Alexis Marsh and Neil Halstead among others.
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"One of the greatest gifts of making The Unknown Country with Morrisa Maltz was meeting the Bearkiller-Shangreaux family, and witnessing the unbridled, exuberant creative energy that Jasmine brings into every corner of her young life. Her gregarious confidence lent itself to the effortless story construction and improvisation that made the scenes work, and made all of us, who were relatively strangers, feel like immediate family," Gladstone said in a statement.
She added that she was grateful "to be part of Jasmine’s evolving story, to witness her creative match in her bestie Syriah, and to see our film-made family expand and deepen with the fantastic and inimitable Jazzy.”
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