The Great American Game
The Great American Game
Feature
· Western · 115 pages
Indian Territory, 1876: The US government has resettled hereditary enemies, Cheyenne and Crow, at Fort Reno, Oklahoma. It then orders the Commanding Officer to halve their rations. A shipment of baseball gear arrives at the Fort, and a feisty Cheyenne , who has never played baseball in his life, offers to play the Soldiers, who have, in a game to re...
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Written by
Lynwood Shiva Sawyer
4 Accolades
Accolade Highlights
Semifinalist,
WeScreenplay Feature Lab 2025
Quarterfinalist,
Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition 2024
Quarterfinalist,
Creative Screenwriting Feature Competition 2023
1 Writer
Raised in the Southern oral storytelling tradition, I can’t count the summer nights spent on verandas, drenched in cicada buzz, listening to narratives polished (and embellished!) over generations.
My craft was honed in the trenches by old Hollywood hands (one of whom remarked, "You have what we call a story mind."), the New York indie film communit...
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Additional Project Info
Special thanks to Museum of the American Indian, Bowling Green, Manhattan and to various Indian Elders