FESTIVAL PREMIERE
LIVE ACTION | USA | 10 MINUTES | English
FOOLS GOLD
Director T.J. Morehouse
Would be thieves are foiled by a Cherokee curse.
CAST & CREDITS
Director
T.J. Morehouse
Producer
Manse Sharp III, Gena Morehouse, T.J. Morehouse, Dan Potter
Screenwriter
T.J. Morehouse
Key Cast
P.J. Sosko, Alan Barnes Netherton, Michael Loman
Directors Bio
T.J. Morehouse is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and a member of the Producers Guild of America.
He is a mutiple award-winning writer, director, and producer with over 20 years’ experience in physical production. He wrote, produced, and directed “Pavarotti of the Plains” a biography of Texas music legend Don Walser, He won Best Screenplay at Tribeca All Access with the script “Plastic Indian”. His Screenplay “FEDERALE!” won several awards and was a finalist in the “Southern California Screenplay Competition,” it was also a finalist for Fade In’s “First 10 Pages” competition as well as a finalist at “Richmond International Film Fest.” He has also placed in the top tier at Austin Film Festival and Writer’s Conference for his neo-noir script “June in California” which also won several awards including “Los Angeles Crime and Horror Film Festival”, “Hollywood Just for Shorts” and “The Creative World Awards Competition”. In 2021-22 he swept 12 wins on the film festival circuit with the film “The Dark Valley”, one of which was “Red Nation Film Festival” in Hollywood. The “Oscar” of Native American media.
His current projects, are “FOOLS GOLD” and the Series Pilot “Shooting Star”
Directors Statement
This story is based on Cherokee History, Culture, Folklore and Medicine.
Stand Watie was a removed Cherokee, later Chief, who fought in the Trans-Mississippi theater of war (Indian Territory and surrounding areas) during the American civil war. He was the last confederate general in the field to surrender and the only Native American general officer of the civil war.
The ambush & looting of the steamship JR Williams was carried out by Watie and elements of the 1st and 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles on June 15, 1864. It is the only naval engagement of the civil war fought in Oklahoma.
During the war, Watie and his troopers participated in 27 major engagements.
2 films inspired the rest:
“The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” by John Huston, 1948.
“Greed” by the great Erich Von Stroheim, 1925.
Program Three
Showtimes
Wednesday, November 13
IN-PERSON
Screening: 3:00pm
Post Screening Guest T.J. Morehouse (Director).
Once Purchased
your name will be at ‘Will Call’
AMC The Grove 14
189 The Grove Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Parking
At The Theatre
