Tanis Parenteau

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Tanis Parenteau

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The Miseducation of Cameron PostThe Miseducation of Cameron Post · 2018
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
★ 6.92018
MovieDrama
Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling “same sex attraction.” Cameron befriends fellow sinners Jane and Adam, thus creating a new family to deal with the surrounding intolerance.
Sweet Summer Pow WowSweet Summer Pow Wow · 2025
Sweet Summer Pow Wow
2025
MovieRomanceComedy
A young Indigenous couple get a break from their troubled lives when they find each other through a summer of love on the Pow-Wow circuit.
ManahattaManahatta · 2021
Manahatta
2021
Movie
In this timely world-premiere drama by celebrated playwright, activist and attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle, past and present intertwine. Nagle’s story illuminates the tragic consequences of commercial exploits, including the removal of Native people and the attempted eradication of their culture, that gave rise to the America we know today. Securities trader Jane Snake is torn between worlds. Her return to Wall Street in 2008 brings her to Manahatta (“island of many hills” in Lenape), the homeland her ancestors were violently forced to leave in the 1600s. Meanwhile, her family in Oklahoma struggles to save their language, their culture and their over-mortgaged home. Jane Snake’s return to Manahatta defiantly demonstrates that the Lenape are still here.
The Heart StaysThe Heart Stays · 2024
The Heart Stays
★ 1.02024
MovieDrama
The Heart Stays tells the story of two Native American sisters who leave the traditions and safety of their Native nation to follow their own long-held dreams–the older one to attend a distinguished college and the younger one to become a rock star. Soon after leaving their beloved land and community their life journeys collide with racism, drugs, and violence, forcing the older teen to choose between her own life’s work and saving her sister’s life.
Cold Side of the PillowCold Side of the Pillow · 2017
Cold Side of the Pillow
2017
Movie
The true life events of four friends come to screen with a story of self-discovery, pain of friendship, love of loss.
FBI: Most WantedFBI: Most Wanted · 2020
FBI: Most Wanted
★ 7.62020
SeriesCrimeDrama
The Fugitive Task Force relentlessly tracks and captures the notorious criminals on the Bureau's Most Wanted list. Seasoned agents oversee the highly skilled team that functions as a mobile undercover unit that is always out in the field, pursuing those who are most desperate to elude justice.
BillionsBillions · 2016
Billions
★ 7.82016
SeriesDrama
Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power and influence to outmaneuver the other. The stakes are in the billions in this timely, provocative series.
Gossip GirlGossip Girl · 2021
Gossip Girl
★ 7.32021
SeriesDramaMystery
Eight years after the original website went dark, a new generation of New York private school teens are introduced to the social surveillance of Gossip Girl.

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ManahattaManahatta · 2021
Manahatta
2021
Movie
In this timely world-premiere drama by celebrated playwright, activist and attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle, past and present intertwine. Nagle’s story illuminates the tragic consequences of commercial exploits, including the removal of Native people and the attempted eradication of their culture, that gave rise to the America we know today. Securities trader Jane Snake is torn between worlds. Her return to Wall Street in 2008 brings her to Manahatta (“island of many hills” in Lenape), the homeland her ancestors were violently forced to leave in the 1600s. Meanwhile, her family in Oklahoma struggles to save their language, their culture and their over-mortgaged home. Jane Snake’s return to Manahatta defiantly demonstrates that the Lenape are still here.

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