Dreamers... We’re not the only ones.
Jane L. Fitzpatrick
Award-Winning Screenwriter/Author, Founder HumanityShines.org, EP/Producer at Broken Hand Productions
They say everyone has an intriguing story to tell... In this age of technology, we have the ability to express ourselves and the meaning of the journey, in a most glorious and powerfully compelling way. Special effects, make-up, realistic costuming and the best cameras and high-tech film equipment help us become exceptional storytellers who are able to reach our message around the world.
Broken Hand Productions was created to share the stories of history, authentically and respectfully, through film. Its purpose is to represent Native Americans and U.S. history accurately, by presenting the truth and giving honor to the First People of this Land.
When we formed this company, we borrowed a name given to a mountain man by the Nez Perce Indians when he suffered a gun accident that took two fingers. Thomas "Broken Hand" Fitzpatrick lived his life at a time when life was rough and harsh. His story is intriguing as he hobnobbed with mountain men at rendezvous and tracked the great buffalo. He even blazed trails with Sacajawea's son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (Pomp), as they made their way west to California.
Broken Hand Fitzpatrick seems the perfect icon for our mission -- as we strive to respect those who've gone before us, and those who've completed their part in the circle-of-life. We would not be who we are today without the lives and the stories of our ancestors. It is in our time that we must step outside our differences and come together as one circle, one love. We have much to learn from the light and the dark of lifetimes...
As we say, "We are the dreams of our ancestors. We are the dreamers for those who come."
Jane and Matthew Fitzpatrick, Broken Hand Productions, Sacajawea The Movie
Investment Banker at Millennium Associates
5 年Glad to see this as my fathers mother was Sioux and my mothers ?mother was Cherokee. I learned so much from them in healing myself with herbs and the forest. Everyone can't believe I am seventy years old when I look like I am 40 plus. Thank goodness for my Indian heritage.
Beautiful post Jane; thank you. Both of my mother's grandmothers were full-blooded Cherokee...a fact that my brother and our cousins did not know until we were well into our adult lives. As a kid, however, I could feel that there was more in my lineage, and I've always had an affinity with animals, particularly birds of all sorts.
Host at W.E.F.A.M. Streaming Musiq Network - #IAMaCHOCTAWFreedmen - Offer Truth
5 年We tend to find all truth in the elements which surrounds us everyday.... bringing this forward is very enlightening. Thanks #JaneLFitzpatrick!!
Director at Hochoka Retreat Center
5 年I would like to speak to the person at Broken Hand Productions - to tell the modern day story of Sacajawea- and can you help me ghost write all this ? Thank you
Director at Hochoka Retreat Center
5 年Wow ! Had no idea this was Nez Perce related = my tribe people and WHY I do what all I have done for the resurgence of the horses as spirit guides ... www.healingwithhorses.com ?????? that your people are my people. No wonder I cry every time I read your post ! Very much congratulations ! Blessings sent to you and all that you love ????????