Following Films Podcast: MURDER IN BIG HORN Director and Producer Razelle Benally and Matthew Galkin
Today I'm joined by MURDER IN BIG HORN director and producer Razelle Benally and Matthew Galkin MURDER IN BIG HORN investigates the disappearances and possible murders of a group of Native American women in rural Montana. Within the last decade, dozens of young Indigenous women and girls from the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Nations have been murdered or have gone missing from Big Horn County and its surrounding area; arrests are rare in these cases and convictions virtually non-existent. When grieving Native families press law enforcement for answers, they are met with either indifference or silence. Elsewhere in America, these crimes would have shocked a community and the nation. National media would have picked up the story. But outside of the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Reservations, it barely registers, leaving a bereft circle of family, friends, and activists on their own, fighting for justice. This harrowing three-part series examines the circumstances around each disappearance...