Loglines & Screenplays by Michael O'Rourke

GENRES: Historical, Biography, Western

Two young men raised as Quakers stake claims in the gold fields of California in the Rush of ’49. While BEN WRIGHT fights to be the preeminent Indian fighter of his time, JOAQUIN MILLER struggles to be the poet laureate of the land and its indigenous peoples. Contemporaries on the trail to gold and glory, their conflict defines the history of not only the West, but also the nation. While witnessing cataclysmic change brought on by 200,000 immigrants seeking gold in the traditional haunts of the California River Tribes, the poet Joaquin must put down his pen and pick up the gun to defend the Shasta tribe that has adopted him.

GENRES: Action, Historical

Namaybin and his band of White Earth Ojibway face extinction, as their ancestral forests are clearcut in 1915. He rallies his family and neighbors for a last stand against lumber baron Lucky Waller, nicknamed “The Cannibal.” From a story by Winona LaDuke.

GENRES: Historical, Drama

Young Native American sisters battle tuberculosis in a white-run sanitarium in the North Woods of Minnesota during the harsh winter of 1920. From a story by Winona LaDuke.

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

Jack, an Irish daredevil in an olde English pub, is lured to ride a midnight coach to parts unknown in the company of Britain’s most notorious villains.He soon learns they plan to deflower a dazzling beauty, who proves not only to be Jack's soul mate, but his comrade in arms. From a story by Charles Dickens.