How three Navajo 20-somethings got their $600 film into prestigious Sundance festival

Here’s an amazing story you just gotta love, courtesy of the Navajo Times:

By the time Donavan Seschillie, Jake Hoyungowa and Deidra Peaches finished making “The Rocket Boy,” they didn’t have $50 left for the fee to apply for the Sundance Film Festival. … [But now] the trio from Flagstaff can boast of being the youngest Native filmmakers to premiere a film at this year’s festival, to be held Jan. 20-30 in Park City, Utah.

More details available on the film at the Newspaper Rock blog and the National Museum of the American Indian blog. Check out the trailer:

(Thanks to @nikkealexis and @theguvna505 for originally tweeting this.)