Thanks to our colleague Joe Nickell for this one. He posted the notice on his Nickell’s Bag blog:

Casting Director Rene Haynes (”Twlight Saga: New Moon,” “Skins,” “Into The West,” and “Dreamkeeper” will conduct an open casting call on Valentine’s Day weekend, Feb. 12 and Feb. 13 on the University of Montana campus in Missoula.

Here’s what’s so exciting for us here at Buffalo Post: He’s making a movie of “Winter in the Blood,” the novel by the late Blackfeet and Gros Ventre writer, James Welch. “Winter in the Blood” is about a young man on northern Montana’s Fort Belknap reservation, and it’s one of our favorite among Welch’s books, which is saying something.

The casting call for the movie will take place between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. in the University Center, Room 312. It seeks Native American men and women in their mid-20s through mid-50s for both speaking and non-speaking roles.

Even though it’s a very different kind of story, we can only hope the actors in this movie will see the same sort of success following the young Native actors who comprise the Wolfpack in “New Moon.”

Gwen Florio

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