''Imprint'' is a 2007

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/ thriller film co-written and directed by Michael Linn and produced by

Chris Eyre Chris Eyre (born 1968), an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, is an American film director and producer who as of 2012 is chairman of the film department at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Films In 1998, Chris Eyre ...

. The film is one of the only

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films to feature an indigenous Native American lead role for an actress, played by

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actress Carmelo.

Synopsis

Shayla is an attorney working in South Dakota who in the opening convicts a young

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boy in a homicide. She returns to her family home on the Lakota reservation to take a break from the toll the case took on her. Once there, she begins to hear and see visions that she believes to be from her recently departed father and later becomes convinced its an ominous sign of her missing brother. She seeks help from elders and their advice leads her to confront some truths about her life and the people in it. Along the way she ends a relationship and possibly begins a new one with a local tribal officer who helps her investigate the mystery.

Cast

Tonantzin Carmelo Tonantzin Carmelo is an American actress. She is known for her acting roles in film, TV and stage productions including in the Steven Spielberg miniseries, '' Into the West'', for which she received a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Outstand ...

as Shayla *

Michael Spears Michael Spears (born December 28, 1977) is an American actor. He is a member of the Kul Wicasa Oyate Lakota people, Lakota (often called "Sioux") Lower Brulé Tribe of South Dakota. Early life Michael Spears was born in Chamberlain, South Dakota ...

as Tom *Cory Brusseau as Jonathan *Carla-Rae Holland as Rebecca *Charlie White Buffalo as Sam * Dave Bald Eagle as Medicine Man

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Official website
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32nd American Indian Film Festival
2000s thriller films 2007 films American independent films Films about Native Americans Films set in South Dakota 2000s English-language films 2000s American films {{2000s-thriller-film-stub