“We destroyed their past but you’re destroying their future,” an oil exec is told in the trailer for Rebecca and Josh Tickell’s “On Sacred Ground,” a narrative feature that revisits the controversial construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The pic inspired by true events that transpired on reservation lands in 2016.
“On Sacred Ground” follows journalist and military vet Daniel (William Mapother, “Save Me”) and his employer, Elliot (David Arquette, “Scream”), a bigwig at the oil company that commissioned him to write about them in a positive light. The two find themselves on opposing factions of the DAPL dispute, going “down separate paths during one of the most heated protests