Skydancer (2011)
75 min
For more than 120 years, Mohawk ironworkers have raised America’s modern cityscapes. They are called 'sky walkers' because they walk fearlessly atop steel beams just a foot wide, high above the city. In this nuanced portrait of modern Native Americans' double lives, Jerry McDonald Thundercloud and his colleague Sky shuttle between the hard-drinking Brooklyn lodging houses they call home during the week and their rural reservation, a grueling drive six hours north, where a family weekend awaits. While the men are away working, their wives often struggle to keep their children away from the illegal temptations of an economically deprived area.
- Release date
- November 13, 2011
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Jerry Thundercloud McDonald as Self
- Bobby D'Amelio as Self - construction superintendent
- Bear Fox as Self - Sky Fox's wife
- Leo Fox as Self - Sky Fox's son
- Sky Fox as Self
- Jeannie McDonald as Self - Jerry McDonald Thundercloud's wife
- Wild Bill Sears as Self - retired ironworker
Crew
- Pierce Brosnan · Archive footage
- Katja Esson · Director
- Katja Esson · Writer
- Katja Esson · Producer
- Ferne Pearlstein · Cinematographer
- Martina Radwan · Cinematographer
- Wojciech Szepel · Cinematographer
- Felix Drawe · Editor
- Sabine Hoffman · Editor
- Nancy Kennedy · Editor