Greetings HHSE Friends & Followers - there's truth to the adage: "The harder I work, the luckier I get," especially when it comes to feature film production. We are honored to have received an invitation to submit "The Last Days of Belle Starr" for competition in the Festival de Cannes (2023). The film's screenplay was submitted as a project "now in production," and was determined to be suitable for an indigenous theme of films participating in 2023 (including Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon.").
Our film tells the story of the weeks leading up to the "Oklahoma Land Rush," told - for the first time - from the perspective of the tribes and the Cherokee Nation residents of 1889. While the infamous Ron Howard "Far and Away" scene portrayed the Oklahoma Land Rush... it did not address that this historic event was created as a result of a total disregard and breach of the treaties which created the Indian Territory.
As part of the diligence in preserving the news value of this film, our cast and our production activities, we continue to operate under a closed set with a full and complete press and social media moratorium. Accordingly, the photos we are sharing today are of locations without actors, and film equipment... but nothing that will betray the moratorium that has been implemented to protect the message track of the film.
We realize that our refusal to over-share cast and production information has been annoying to some shareholders... and even more so to the "critics" (including one who was captured and clearly identified on security video last week, trying to break-into the film's production office in Tahlequah, OK!!). But suffice it to say that we are ecstatic with our cast, and with our production progress.
For clarity, "The Last Days of Belle Starr" has not yet been selected for competition into Cannes 2023. In order to go from "invitation" to "competition," we must submit a rough cut of the full feature by March 11, 2023. We see no issues in meeting this deadline. Regardless, it's hard to envision competing with - and then beating - the $267-million dollar Scorsese feature, which addresses issues in 1924 affecting the Osage tribe. But if the HHSE film is selected for competition, that is a tremendous honor, a huge publicity boost for the release, and a great credibility boost for our company.
Forward progress continues with the Company's other critical endeavors - including the Form 10 filing, the launch of MyFlix and the upcoming deadline for Q3 reporting to the OTC Markets. Stay tuned....
