I know! Another Winter in the Blood blog, but I really wanted to share the research that I did for the costume department. This was probably my favorite part of the whole process. I loved seeing these photos come to life on-screen thanks to the wonderfully talented Kristen Burke! Authenticity was really important for this film and getting photos from the area and from the time-period was essential in order for us to gather the build the best costumes that we could. (With mucho effort by the glorious Anthony Tran) If I could make a living out of just pulling photos for costume and production design, I would!  They are all from Sean Chandler, a tribal artist and professor at Ft. Belknap college. Some of them are of his family and others are from albums that people have brought into him. A lot of them come from a series of albums that someone found in an abandoned office and did not want to throw away. I think it’s interesting that when we were looking for photos of Gros Ventre and Assiniboine people from the 50′s and 70′s there wasn’t a whole lot of ‘historical’ photos out there. It seems like only the old Indian photos have really been preserved, but saving and storing these more contemporary photos is just as important.

I hope you enjoy these as much as I do.

Toss Your Head Back

Lonely Boy

Children of the 50's

How They Were

Elder

Young Sean Chandler.

Prim and proper

Friends on a couch

Three Girls Smoking

Hard Men

Big Horse

Blue Coat

Cool Uncle

Fort Belknap Council 1956

Gary Farmer Inspiration.

Tailgate.

Groovy.