Headdress: Directed, written, and starring Tai Leclaire takes a comical deep dive into the Queer Native Psyche and the balancing of identities and egos at play that go on under the hood when deciding how to respond to a casual act of racism.
ABOUT THE FILM:
A weekend at a music festival is brought to a grinding halt when Tai is confronted by a white person wearing a Native Ceremonial Headdress. He retreats into his mind where a roundtable of various versions of his identity meets to come up with the perfect thing to say.
When the debate escalates into a fight, they break the only device to communicate messages to Tai. At this moment, the various versions of Tai have to band together to try and fix the damaged device and still come up with the “perfect thing to say.”
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About
The Director
Taietsarón:sere 'Tai' Leclaire is a Queer & Native Actor, Comedian, and Writer. He's Kanien'kehá:ka and Mi'kmaq from Kahnawà:ke. He is a writer and actor on the NBC Peacock comedy RUTHERFORD FALLS by Mike Schur, Ed Helms, and Sierra Teller-Ornelas. He is a 2022 Sundance Native Lab Fellow and awarded The 2022 Indigenous list on The Black List. He’s a former house performer at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and has performed at venues and festivals across the country.
Cast
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Taietsarón:sere 'Tai' Leclaire
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Sami Griffith
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Rachel McKay Steele
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Sean Reidy
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Austin Pohlen