Murder In Big Horn Screening

MURDER IN BIG HORN investigates the disappearances and possible murders of young Indigenous women and girls from the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Nations in Big Horn County and its surrounding area. The three-part series examines the circumstances around each disappearance, the searches for the missing, the details of these deeply problematic law enforcement responses, and the challenges with bringing perpetrators to justice. 

WHAT: Screening of MURDER IN BIG HORN Documentary Series, Episode 1 followed by a discussion with the co-directors of the film, Razelle Benally (MFA Candidate, Grad Film) and Matthew Galkin '93 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV), moderated by Anna Deveare Smith.

RAZELLE BENALLY, Director
Oglala Lakota/Diné filmmaker Razelle Benally is in her thesis year of MFA candidacy of Film Production at NYU. She wrote on AMC’s "DARK WINDS" and is currently in development on her directorial feature debut. Benally was a Sundance Native Lab Fellow, a Producers Fellow, and a Screenwriters Intensive Fellow.

MATTHEW GALKIN, Director
Matthew Galkin's recent directing work includes the forthcoming Showtime series "MURDER IN BIG HORN", the Showtime limited series “MURDER IN THE BAYOU”, HBO’s “KEVORKIAN”, the award-winning HBO documentary “I AM AN ANIMAL: THE STORY OF INGRID NEWKIRK AND PETA”, and “loudQUIETloud: A FILM ABOUT THE PIXIES”.

ANNA DEAVEARE SMITH, Moderator
Anna Deavere Smith is an actress and playwright who is said to have created a new form of theatre. In popular culture as an actress—Nurse Jackie, Blackish, Madame Secretary, The West Wing, The American President, Rachel Getting Married, Philadelphia, others. Books: Letters to a Young Artist and Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines. She has created more than person shows based on hundreds of interviews. The best known of those are Fires in The Mirror, Twilight: Los Angeles, and “Let Me Down Easy”. “Fires” and “Twilight” look at US race relations. The latter deals with health care. They were all performed in US regional theaters, and “Twilight” was on Broadway. Her current project “Notes From the Field: Doing Time In Education, looks at what is now called the “school to prison pipeline”—disciplinary practices in schools in poor communities that increase the likelihood that those youths will spend part of their lives incarcerated. Three of her plays have been broadcast on PBS.