Bermuda International Film Festival 2009

While his previous films were set in his native Scotland, Rez Bomb provides quite a contrast for director Steven Lewis Simpson. The story is set on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, one the poorest place in the USA. In its original script form, the film was to take place in Edinburgh, but after visiting South Dakota and finding a rapport with the local Native American population, the director decided to switch locales and base his thriller/love story in the US. Rez Bomb pairs Tamara Feldman (Dirty Sexy Money, Hatchet, Perfect Stranger) as a Lakota woman and Trent Ford (How to Deal, Gosford Park, September Dawn) as her white boyfriend. The film also provides a juicy part for native American actor and activist Russell Means (Last of the Mohicans, Natural Born Killers). The plot is about lovers from different backgrounds who run afoul of a ruthless money lender, and find themselves in a race against the clock to bail themselves out of a dangerous situation. While the location shooting in South Dakota takes advantage of the desolate plains and mountains of the area and the obvious poverty of the Reservation itself, it tells a universal story.