Powerful film on Native-Americans

Perth Film Society is showing a powerful indie-made film about a Native American community.

Working with its successful online, paid-for ticket method, the film ‘Neither Wolf Nor Dog’will be seen at home from March 13-20 with the added bonus of a live Q&A with the Aberdeen-born director Steven Lewis Simpson on Thursday, March 18.

For a film ticket, go to https://vimeo.com/r/37zx/ eS9zdkloL0 and if needed, use the code SCOTLAND.

PFS chair Jill Moody said: “Viewers must buy their own individual entries to the film direct from Vimeo at a discounted rate of £5 per device/household.

“We understand that each device/household can then view the film more than once inside the specified date range of Saturday March 13 to 20 inclusive.

“If people enjoy the film and especially the sly witty performance of Bald Eagle, why not join our live Q&A?

“Director Steven Lewis Simpson will tell us more of the elderly man’s incredible life (he was born in 1919), and his personal family connections with the battles of Little Big Horn (1876), then Wounded Knee (1890), where the film climaxes.”

Steven Simpson was working in Glasgow and heard about the return of a Sioux warrior’s“Ghost Shirt”from the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation.

It made him decide to make his own pilgrimage to Wounded Knee.

He was there with tribal elders in 1999 at the handing-over ceremony for the shirt, which he felt linked Scotland to the Lakota in very many ways.

The journey inspired Simpson to make a film — Neither Wolf Nor Dog — on a poverty-stricken Native American reservation.

The Q&A will be on Zoom at 8pm on Thursday, March 18.

Entry will be free but ticketed by the Horsecross box office.

Horsecross will email the Zoom entry link to ticket-holders on the afternoon of the event.