A creative retelling of the true story of Larcena Pennington, attacked and left for dead in an act of retribution by Tonto Apaches in 1860, who crawled, wearing nothing but a thin petticoat, 16 miles over the snow-covered Santa Rita mountains for 14 days, to survive.
Amid the brutal Apache Wars, young settler Larcena is taken hostage by Tonto Apaches seeking to ransom her for their captured kin. Weakened by valley fever, she becomes a liability—and is left for dead, stabbed, beaten, and abandoned in snow-covered mountains. But Larcena crawls for 14 days back to her camp, driven by a will to survive. Parallel to her journey is Lozen, the legendary Apache warrior and prophetess, channeling the suppressed Divine Feminine, the White Painted Woman. With conquest closing in, Lozen pushes back. Across the chasm, two women—fierce, unyielding—stand as living defiance in a world gone mad with death.
Genevieve Anderson is a filmmaker, producer, and social entrepreneur living in Los Angeles. Her short films have played at over 100 festivals worldwide, winning awards in Berlin, Seattle, Chicago, Rhode Island, Palm Springs, among many others, and have been broadcast on ARTE and IFC. Her award-winning first feature, DUSTWUN, about her experience living at the US/Mexican border, is distributed globally by House of Film. She is a Rockefeller Media Artist Grant recipient and an Annenberg Fellow, and earned her MA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She produced for world-renowned video artist Bill Viola for 15 years, helping create the artist’s biggest works – Venice Biennale, St. Paul Cathedral, London, The Deutsche Guggenheim, The Hamad International Airport, Qatar, among many others. She is the subject of Forming the Formless, an Emmy-nominated PBS spotlight on her work with puppets. She is founder of WUNZ Apparel in Action, a social enterprise working with the Los Angeles Mission to help provide employment pathways to women in recovery.
