Sacajawea’s Awards

Since 2003 (when I began the script) this award-winning screenplay has been through many years of transformation, editing, analysis and adapting to new information in an effort to create a story that is both accurate and authentic, and also worthy of Sacajawea’s life. It has been analyzed three times by Christopher Keane, well-known script analyst and Kaaren Ochoa who is a lifelong moviemaker, producer, assistant director, director, writer and script consultant.

As a first-time screenwriter all those years ago, I am grateful for the many morning and evening discussions about the Lewis & Clark journals with my husband Matthew Fitzpatrick, for the expertise of the film professionals, for the Lewis & Clark consultants and authors (David Borlaug, Landon Jones and Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs) and especially Sacajawea’s own people, (Leo Ariwite) for their input, corrections and loving care of this important, untold story about an icon of American history.

I am so grateful for the awards she has won to date. They never would have been achieved without the collective hearts that came together and believed, determined to make it right.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Jane