HBO and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Host Washington, DC Premiere Screening of the HBO Films Presentation BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE

HBO and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Host Washington, DC Premiere Screening of the HBO Films Presentation BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE

Actor August Schellenberg and
Executive Producers Dick Wolf and Tom Thayer will attend

WHO: HBO and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian
host a premiere screening of the HBO Films Presentation, BURY MY
HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE. Inspired by Dee Brown's seminal nonfiction
book, the film powerfully explores the tragic impact that the
United States' westward expansion had on American Indian culture,
and the economic, political and social pressures that motivated it.
Special guests at the invitation-only event will include:

HBO NMAI
Actor, August Schellenberg The Honorable Joe American Horse
Screenwriter, Daniel Giat Associate Justice of the Oglala
Sioux Supreme Court
Executive Producer, Tom Thayer R. Milo Yellowhair, Treaty
Executive Producer, Dick Wolf, Representative-at-Large for
one of TV's most respected the Oglala Sioux Tribe and
drama series creators and Descendant of Wounded Knee
producers and the architect Survivor
of the three "Law & Order" Curator Emil Her Many Horses
drama series. (Oglala Lakota), NMAI
Dr. Jose Barreiro (Taino),
Assistant Director for Research,
NMAI
Dr. James Ring Adams, Senior
Historian, NMAI
Dr. Mark Hirsch, Historian, NMAI
Elizabeth Weatherford, Head of
Film and Video, NMAI

WHAT: HBO Films teams with executive producers Dick Wolf and Tom Thayer
to present the epic film BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE, debuting
Sunday, May 27 on HBO (9:00-11:15 p.m. ET/PT). The cast includes
Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, August Schellenberg, J.K. Simmons, Eric
Schweig, Wes Studi, Colm Feore, Gordon Tootoosis, with Fred
Thompson and Anna Paquin. Beginning with the Sioux victory over
General Custer at Little Big Horn, BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE
intertwines the unique perspectives of three characters: Charles
Eastman (Beach), ne Ohiyesa, a young, Dartmouth-educated, Sioux
doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of
assimilation; Sitting Bull(Schellenberg), the proud Lakota chief
who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip
his people of their identity, their dignity and their sacred land -
the gold-laden Black Hills of the Dakotas; and Senator Henry Dawes
(Quinn), one of the architects of the government policy on Indian
affairs.

WHERE: The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian
4th Street and Independence Avenue, SW

WHEN: Monday, May 21, 2007
6:30 PM Reception - Interview Opportunities with Special Guests
7:30 PM Screening

MEDIA RSVP AND INTERVIEW REQUESTS:
Suzanne Pinto, HBO, 212-512-1904, Suzanne.Pinto@hbo.com
Eileen Maxwell, NMAI, 202-633-6615, Maxwelle@si.edu

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Source: HBO

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