THE LAST DAYS OF BELLE STARR - Cannes Festival 2023 Teaser
The epic story of the motives and murder of Belle Starr is told in this revealing, historic western, set during the last two weeks of her life in 1889. As a white woman living in the Indian Territory, married to a Cherokee and accepted as part of the Cherokee society, Belle Starr is the perfect spokesperson to speak against the dissolution of the Indian Territory in order to give away the lands in the "Oklahoma Land Rush" of 1889. Just 10 days after her eloquent public speech in opposition to breaking the Treaty of Echota, Belle Starr is ambushed: shot in the back and shot dead in the face. The "authorities" in Fort Smith never investigated her murder, preferring instead to blame it on robbers, or a jilted lover, or angry children, instead of the obvious cause being her financial threat to those who wanted to take the Indian Territory lands. This video shows selected scenes from the second unit filming and "proof of concept" prior to the film's principal photography (commencing July 2023). NOTE: TEMP MUSIC ONLY (from authority of Last of the Mohicans).