Awakening (2014)

AWAKENING is a short film about an elderly woman Louise Katchia who hopes to restore her assimilated grandsons connection to their culture Nathan Solomon Trimble is unwillingly sent to see a Shaman Foster Kalama in the cold backwoods of the Warm Springs Indian reservation Immediately placed into a ceremony circle Nathan is put into a trance on a spiritual quest to face his inner Native American as his modern self Facing the unknown Nathan overcomes his fear in an ultimate test of survival fighting a violent cultural force within Ultimately defeating the unknown he becomes the inner Native American and restores his connection to his culture and faith