Above Boy

Production Country: USA
Running Time: 33mins
Year: 2021

An intimate portrayal of members of the Oglala Lakota Nation on the Pineridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Godfrey Benjamin Chipps' spiritual legacy he leaves for his family is the heritage of being a fourth-generation descendant of Horn Chipp – the Medicine Man for legendary Indian chief, Crazy Horse. A film about ancestry, consequence, the delicacy of ceremony, and life on the reservation.

FILM CREW:
Director: Sebastian Funke, Jan Vogel, Lucy Martens, Elizabeth Silver
Producer: Elizabeth Silver
Exec Producer: Elizabeth Silver
DOP: Lucy Martens
Editor: Gabriel Britz
Sound Design: Patrick Donahue, Andre Abshagen
VFX: Naoko Saito
Animation: Peter Ahern, Korvash Khayati (Coline), Rob Chandler, Dennie Bright

Cast: Benjamin Godfrey Chipps, Beverly Red Elk, Waylon Red Elk Sr. (in memoriam) Candace Red Elk, Courtney Red Elk, Clayton Red Elk, Kansas Chipps, Opijata Chipps, Benjamin “Hoksheila” Chipps Zaptan Chipps, Benny Chipps and Lil’ Roger Sundance Chipps, Trenton Chipps, Santana Chipps, Baeza Chipps


FESTIVALS:
Dreamspeakers International Indigenous Film Festival April 2023
Hawai'i International Film Festival November 2022
RNCI Red Nation International Film Festival & Awards - Native Cinema November 2022
BronzeLens Film Festival August 2022
Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival August 2022
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival February 2022
Black Hills Film Festival June 2022