{"id":33511,"date":"2023-06-06T16:09:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/native-american-representation-in-netflixs-upcoming-rez-ball\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T22:09:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:09:46","slug":"native-american-representation-in-netflixs-upcoming-rez-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/native-american-representation-in-netflixs-upcoming-rez-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Native American representation in Netflix\u2019s upcoming \u2018Rez Ball\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7ff70bad-4c90-4d4e-a3e7-be6895754cf4&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1328\" height=\"1111\" alt=\"Shiprock will be one of several sites for the feature film \u201cRez Ball.\u201d (Cortez Journal file photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Shiprock will be one of several sites for the feature film \u201cRez Ball.\u201d (Cortez Journal file photo)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>New Mexico\u2019s film industry is growing every day, supporting recent projects such as \u201cTwo Sinners and a Mule,\u201d filmed at Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, and the television series \u201cStranger Things,\u201d filmed in several Albuquerque locations.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent and anticipated film is Netflix\u2019s coming of age sports drama, \u201cRez Ball\u201d which will represent New Mexico\u2019s culture and diverse landscape.<\/p>\n<p>The film will follow a Native American basketball team working together to win a state championship after losing their star player. It will be set in Chuska.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRez Ball\u201d is directed by Sydney Freeland with LeBron James as one of the producers.<\/p>\n<p>The cast consists of Native Americans actors, including Jessica Matten, Julia Jones, Amber Midthunder, Kiowa Gordon, Dallas Goldtooth, Cody Lightning and Ernest Tsosie, alongside first-time actor Kauchani Bratt as the male lead.<\/p>\n<p>The film locations include Shiprock, Belen, Los Lunas, Estancia, Santa Fe, Rio Rancho and permitted filming on the Navajo Nation Reservation.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday, a specific release date has not been announced, but it is expected to be released in late 2023 or early 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shiprock is one of the filming locations for \u2018Rez Ball\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[363,1060,1047,28,1774],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-33511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-arts","tag-arts-entertainment","tag-film","tag-headlines","tag-shiprock"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33511"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=33511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}