Honey Moccasin (1998)
47m
Running Time
January 1, 1998Release Date
Plot.
This all-Native production, by director Shelley Niro (Mohawk), is part of the Smoke Signals new wave of films that examine Native identity in the 1990’s. Set on the Grand Pine Indian Reservation, aka “Reservation X”, HONEY MOCCASIN combines elements of melodrama, performance art, cable access, and ‘whodunit’ to question conventions of ethnic and sexual identity as well as film narrative. A comedy/thriller complete with a fashion show and torchy musical numbers, this witty film employs a surreal pastiche of styles to depict the rivalry between bars The Smokin’ Moccasin and The Inukshuk Cafe, the saga of closeted drag queen/powwow clothing thief Zachary John, and the travails of crusading investigator Honey Moccasin. This irreverent reappropriation of familiar narrative strategies serves as a provocative spring-board for an investigation of authenticity, cultural identity, and the articulation of modern Native American experience in cinematic language and pop culture.
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Cast & Crew.

Tantoo Cardinal
Honey Moccasin

Florence Belmore
Mabel Moccasin

Ron Cook
Sonny Moccasin

Willie Dunn
Hank

Sandra Laronde
Sissy Moccasin

Billy Merasty
Zachary John

Paul Chaat Smith
Richard Rock

Bernelda Wheeler
Bernelda Birch

Shelley Niro
Writer / Producer / Director

Marcos Arriaga
Director of Photography

Sarah Peddie
Editor

Zdenek Konicek
Original Music Composer

Lynn Hutchison
Producer

Ryan Rice
Art Direction

Jeff Sterne
Production Manager

Benito Amaro
Sound
Details.
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