{"id":34882,"date":"2023-02-26T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umbriafilmfestival.com\/war-pony\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T08:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T06:30:58","slug":"war-pony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umbriafilmfestival.com\/en\/war-pony\/","title":{"rendered":"WAR PONY"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Title:<\/strong> War Pony <\/p>

Director:<\/strong> Gina Gammell and Riley Keough<\/p>

Screenplay:<\/strong> Franklin Sioux Bob, Bill Reddy, Riley Keough, Gina Gammell<\/p>

Director of Photography:<\/strong> David Gallego, A.D.F.C.<\/p>

Editing:<\/strong> Affonso Gon\u00e7alves, ACE, Eduardo Serrano, (Additional Editor – Ernie Gilbert)<\/p>

Music:<\/strong> Christopher Stracey and Mato Wayuhi<\/p>

Production:<\/strong> Willi White, Bert Hamelinck, Ryan Zacarias, Sacha Ben Harroche, Riley Keough, Gina Gammell and Felix Culpa and Caviar<\/p>

Year:<\/strong> 2022<\/p>

Country:<\/strong> United States<\/p>

Duration:<\/strong> 114 min<\/p>

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For 23-year-old Bill, and 12-year-old Matho, two young men of the Oglala Lakota tribe, growing up on the Pine Ridge reservation is not easy. Bound by a common search for themselves, the two boys grapple with their identities, families, and emotional losses as they travel their own unique paths that will lead them to become men. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\"\"RILEY KEOUGH<\/p>

She is best known for her roles in MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015), THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE by Amy Seimetz & Lodge Kerrigan (2016), Andrea Arnold’s AMERICAN HONEY (2016), Steven Soderbergh’s LOGAN L<\/i>UCKY – The Logan Con<\/i>, (2017), Lars Von Triers’ THE HOUSE<\/i> THAT JACK<\/i> BUILT, (2018), Wash Westmoreland’s EARTHQUAKE BIRD – Where the Earth Trembles<\/i>, (2019) and Antonio Campos’ DEVIL ALL THE TIME – The Roads of Evil<\/i>, (2020). American Honey<\/i> earned Riley an Independent Spirit Award nomination for best supporting actress, while with The Girlfriend Experience<\/i> she achieves a Golden Globe nomination for best performance in a limited series or television movie. Riley’s productions in 2021 include Janicza Bravo’s ZOLA and the highly anticipated Amazon series DAISY AND THE SIX from Hello Sunshine. <\/p>

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\"\"GINA GAMMELL<\/p>

She began her career as a director and producer of short music videos and commercials. In 2017 she produced her first feature film, in 2018 she founded the production company Felix Culpa<\/i> with Riley, and in 2019 she co-directed and wrote her first feature film, WAR PONY. Gina is currently working on post-production of the film MANODROME, by John Trengove (Felix Culpa’s second production), with actors Jesse Eisenberg, Adrien Brody, and Odessa Young. <\/p>

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