LAND SALE: A story of a family’s battle to heal and renew itself, finding strength in their love for each other, in their tribal spiritual heritage, and in the emerging of a new, exciting sense of home. For all audiences of all ages.
After the family is evicted from their rented house in town, Annie sets her eye on
an abandoned ramshackle six room house built in the 1940s on the family land
allotment at Sugar Creek. Despite resistance from her family, she pursues her
intention over the remainder of the spring season. “This house was our home a
long time ago, it's strong like old tipi, and we can make it a home again,” she
declares. Annie's days will be filled with the work and challenges of finding help
and support to get the house basically livable in again. As the spring days roll into
summer, Annie is clearly more active and stronger in her determination to find a
way to save her family. She tells herself she must get things fixed up by midAugust
when schools in Kiowa County start high school classes for her grandkids
Wesley and Denise. After nonstop cajoling she persuades the tribal chairman to
approve funding to help restore and remodel the old house on her land. Her little
vegetable garden is sprouting and taking shape. The county utility company sets
a date to reconnect plumbing and electric lines to the area grid. She assembles a
small, jolly crew of volunteer helpers and the house begins to transform. She is
encouraged but she knows the toughest part of her campaign is yet to come——
convincing her family to move out to the fixed up house way out in the country
and work with her to make it their home.
Diane Fraher is an enrolled member of Osage Nation with documented Cherokee heritage as well, who is known for writing, directing, and producing “The Heart Stays” (2024) the first nationally distributed feature film by a Native American woman. Indican Pictures released the film in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Tulsa, OK and it’s currently available on fifteen video on demand platforms. “The Heart Stays” was nominated for Best Picture at the 2024 Red Nation Film Festival.
The extensive list of awards and artist fellowships she has received for her filmmaking include: Jerome Foundation, National Geographic All Roads Film Project, New York State Council on the Arts-Individual Artist Program, Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Native Arts and Culture Foundation and Osage Nation Foundation. Diane Fraher is a Fellow in Screenwriting from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a Made in NY Women’s Film Fund Fellowship for The Heart Stays.
She is one of the principal artists who formed the New York Movement in Contemporary Native Arts, which is one of only two documented Native American arts movement in the United States. (No Reservation: New York Contemporary Native American Art Movement)
Ms. Fraher founded American Indian Artists Inc. (AMERINDA), located in New York, which is the only Native multi-arts organization of its kind in the United States for Native artists. There she has supported countless Native artists, student artists and community members.
Director - Diane Fraher
Co-Producer - Diane Fraher
Co-Producer - Hanay Geiogamah
Screenwriter - Hanay Geiogamah
