A
group of French people share a passion for everything Native American:
every week-end they dress up as Native Americans to entertain at small
village fairs in France. But their big dream is to travel to the United
States and meet some real Native Americans. When they finally manage to
go for a 2 week-drive across the Midwest, they discover the reality of
contemporary Native Americans is quite different from their idealized
vision: poverty, continued loss of land, and worse, a disturbingly
active discrimination by the white descendants of the settlers.
Sylvie Jacquemin
French
born, Sylvie Jacquemin started with some scientific studies (Pharmacy
in France then Computer Graphics in California), then opted for
Cinematography and Editing. After 9 years in the USA, directing and
shooting commercials and music videos, it was a docu-portrait of
American trumpeteer Wynton Marsalis, invited by the indians in 1992,
which led her towards documentary and the native cultures.
Now based in France, she alternates commercials, short TV programs ( "ABC babies" TV series) and documentaries.