The 19th Annual BareBones International Independent Film & Music Festival runs Tuesday through Sunday in Muskogee. [Image provided]

MUSKOGEE – Film screenings, panels, mixers, live music and more are planned at the 19th Annual BareBones International Independent Film & Music Festival, set for Tuesday through Sunday at several venues in Muskogee.

The festival will showcase independently made narrative and documentary features, short documentaries, short narrative and student films, music videos, animation projects and live screenplay readings.

One of the Bare Bones selections from Oklahoma that I'm most interested in is "Nanyehi," a short film about Nancy Ward, the legendary Cherokee warrior-turne-peacemaker. The film, which will make its debut at Bare Bones, depicts the struggle between peace and war and the fight to preserve tribal land in the 18th century.

Cherokee Nation citizen Winnie Guess Purdue plays "Nanyehi" in the short film of the same name, debuting at the Bare Bones film festival in Muskogee. [Photo provided]

The short film, which started out as a musical, is a passion project for Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Becky Hobbs, a direct descendant of Ward. Hobbs and I first talked about the project back in a 2011 interview that you can read here.