John Ferry

Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart

John Ferry

Adam Fortunate Eagle, William Theobald

Award-winning documentary, Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart, makes extensive use of Sitting Bull’s own words, giving the viewer an intimate portrait of one of America’s legendary figures in all his complexities as a leader of the great Sioux Nation: warrior, spiritual leader and skilled diplomat. Sitting Bull’s words, as portrayed by Adam Fortunate Eagle, dominate this story. Augmented by a narrator’s historical perspective, over six-hundred historical photographs and images, and a compelling original music score, the film brings to life the little-known human side of Sitting Bull as well as the story of a great man’s struggle to maintain his people’s way of life against an ever-expanding westward movement of white settlers. It is a powerful cinematic journey into the life and spirit of a legendary figure of whom people have often heard but don’t really know.

Contrary Warrior: The Life and Times of Adam Fortunate Eagle

John Ferry

Contrary Warrior is an intimate first-person account on the life and work of Native American activist, artist, ceremonial leader, author, and enemy of the state Adam Fortunate Eagle This biographial account of one of the principal organizers of the Indan occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 won the Audience Choice Award at Cine Las Americas International Film Festival in Austin, and the Platinum Reel Award at the Nevada Film Festival.

Taking Alcatraz

John Ferry

Adam Fortunate Eagle, John Trudell

A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island as told by principal organizer, Adam Fortunate Eagle. The story unfolds through Fortunate Eagle's remembrances, archival newsreel footage and photographs.