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VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE FINAL RESTING PLACES OF LAWMAN BASS REEVES AND OUTLAW BELLE STARR

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11:00 AM

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER: SIDNEY THOMPSON

Sidney Thompson is the author of The Bass Reeves Trilogy (Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves/Hell on the Border/The Forsaken and the Dead), the inspiration for the Paramount+ miniseries Lawmen: Bass Reeves, directed by Taylor Sheridan and starring David Oyelowo, Dennis Quaid, and Donald Sutherland.

LINK TO THOMPSON'S BIO

ALL FILMS WILL PREMIERE IN THE HISTORIC ROXY
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1:00 PM BLOCK
SAT. OCT. 7, 2023
ROXY THEATER

Film order of showing in program book for the time blocks. Following each block's screenings will be time for Q & A with Filmmakers in attendance.

THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE: The Story of the Oklahoma State Capitol

BRYAN BEASLEY-Director
BOB ROSS-Producer

26 Minutes

Politicians, activists, artists, and civil servants come together to restore the Oklahoma State Capitol building to match the state's noble and, perhaps surprising, trail-blazing roots.
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THE HORNET'S NEST

ANDREW HUGGINS-Director
LARRY STEPHENS-Writer/Producer

28 minutes

The patriot Nancy Hart battles against the King's men to defend her homeland in eighteenth century America.
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BLACK HAWK ROCK
RUSS FRY-Director

5 minutes

Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, the Sauk war leader known to the American settlers as Chief Black Hawk, wrote in his autobiography about visits to Shokokon, the area that is now called Burlington, Iowa. He held counsel in a secluded but romantic spot in the midst of the bluffs, not far from the river.
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2:00 PM-FEATURE PRESENTATION
SAT. OCT. 7, 2023
ROXY THEATER

MIRACLE IN THE VALLEY

DON SCHROEDER-Director/Producer
JUDY BELSHE-TOERNBLOM-Writer/Producer

96 minutes

Boonville, California 1906

Thirteen year-old Melinda, born out of wedlock and scorned by many, desperately wants to know what happened to her real father, but no one in town will tell her.
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THE HUNTER

TIM ROSE-Director/Producer
JAMES MCCONNEL-Writer/Producer
KENNETH BARIST-Producer
DAISY LEEPSON-Producer

15 minutes

Set in 1870's Wyoming, "The Hunter" follows an ambitious young bounty hunter as he tracks down his first target. The legendary outlaw he pursues, known infamously as The Reaper of the West, has drifted through dozens of towns leaving a trail of bodies in his wake.
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4:00 PM BLOCK
SAT. OCT. 7, 2023
ROXY THEATER

BLOOD EVERYWHERE

FRANCESCO CAPPIOTTI-Writer/Director

3 minutes Animation/Music Video
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DEATH IN LAVENDER

TYLER W. MOORE-Director
FRITZ ROBINSON-Producer

10 minutes

Secrets begin to unravel after the untimely passing of the patriarch of the Pennington family.
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GAMMONS' GREED A WESTERN THRILLER

RYAN RIFFLE-Writer/Director
RICHARD RIFFLE-Director
RICK RIFFLE-Producer
SUZANNE RIFFLE-Producer

20 minutes

An 1880s gang robs a bank and finds a map that leads to a gold mine in an abandoned Western town. But their greed for gold wakes up the Ghost of Gammons, and he wants his gold back!
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NEW WEST

JORDAN MEARS-Writer/Director/Producer
COTY GREENWOOD-Writer
ZACH KEAST-Producer
COTY GREENWOOD-Producer

40 minutes

Trigger and Gene were Hollywood legends and the best of friends, but years after a falling out the two must team up once again to fight a villain from their past.
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5:15 PM-WELCOME TO MUSKOGEE
ACTORS, RE-ENACTORS & COSTUMED CHARACTERS ON
THE RED CARPET EVENT


6:00 PM FEATURE PRESENTATION
SAT.OCT. 7, 2023
ROXY THEATER

DUST AND BOLTS

JON FONSECA-Director
MIKE ENRIGHT-Advisor
THOMAS CUCE-Composer

5 minutes-Animation

In a mechanical desert town, a group of bandits hijack a train carrying precious cargo. A reluctant deputy must seize the train or leave their town without power.
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OUTLAW JOSIE WAYLES
BRANDON LEE KEROPIAN-Writer/Director
LOLY TRUCKS-Producer
BRANDY LOPEZ-Producer

14 minutes

Rainfeather Sullivan looks through a family photo album and narrates the story of how his great grandparents met, bounty hunter Cody Suarez and outlaw Josie Wayles, in 1903 Texas.
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PROVIDENCE TRAILS
VIKTOR JOHANSEN-Director/Producer
ANNA WESTERMAN-Writer/Director/Producer
KATIE STACEY-Writer

79 minutes

In the year 1889, before Dakota territory reaches statehood, a rich government official hires a headstrong woman from the west to deliver a "package" out west for him. She must deliver the package safely and on time with a crew of women of her own choosing. What could stand in their way?
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8:00 PM FEATURE PRESENTATION
SAT.OCT.7,2023
ROXY THEATER

THE OLDEST POSSE

BRETT WILLIAM MAUSER-Writer/Director
JOEY VENEGAS,Jr.-Producer

90 minutes

In the American Old West, a Deputy Marshal puts together a posse of retired lawmen to go after a deadly outlaw. The men must navigate not only the difficult territory at their old age, but also the changing world around them
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10:00 PM
SAT. OCT. 7,2023
ROXY THEATER

BONEHEAD AWARDS CEREMONY/SHOW
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