Movie magic: Beloit International Film Festival entertains, challenges mindsets

An audience gathered for a showing of ‘Big Crow’ at the Downtown Beloit Association on Friday as part of the Beloit International Film Festival. The film describes life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota

By Jacob Roushia, Feb 27, 2023

BELOIT—Some of the films showcased this weekend at the Beloit International Film Festival were pure fun, while others made a deeper impact.

 

“Big Crow” was among the latter, audience members said.

 

It’s a documentary about SuAnne Big Crow, whose team won a Class A girls basketball championship in 1989, putting them on the news. The film honors Big Crow’s life, basketball career and the Oglala Sioux, a sub-tribe of the Lakota people.

 

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