Virgil First Raise wakes with a shiner and a hangover in a roadside ditch on the stark but beautiful plains of Montana. As he rises to face the day he sees a vision of his father lying dead at his feet. Impossible-- his father froze to death in a snowdrift years earlier. Virgil returns home to find that his wife, Agnes, has left him. Worse, she's taken his electric razor and his beloved rifle. Virgil sets out to find her-- beginning a hi-line odyssey of inebriated encounters, sexual skirmishes, and improbable cloak-and-dagger intrigues with the mysterious 'Airplane Man'. Virgil's quest also brings him face-to-face with childhood memories and visions of his beloved, lost brother Mose-- some glorious, some tragic. Only when Virgil seeks the counsel of an old, blind man named Yellow Calf, does he grasp the truth of his origins and begin to thaw the ice in his veins.

Directed by Alex and Andrew Smith 

Written by Alex and Andrew Smith and Ken White

Starring Chaske Spencer, Julia Jones, David Morse, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Gary Farmer, and Lily Gladstone

Available for purchase and live stream through Netflix, Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play, and iTunes. 

COMING SOON-- TENTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL RELEASE of the WINTER IN THE BLOOD SOUNDTRACK--

Thanks to Spaceflight Records, a non-profit record label from Austin, TX, the marvelous, heart-fixing film score by HEARTLESS BASTARDS will finally be available on limited-release, double-LP VINYL and for digital download (Apple Music, Spotify, etc.) Also featuring songs by Robert Plant, Cass McCombs, Sonny and the Sunsets, Sally Ford, Them Savages and other guest artists.

RELEASE DATE TBD-- WINTER 2022! Kept your eyes on our FB page (link) for announcement of pre-order date. This LP will sell out!

Further viewing: 

Sherman Alexie talks 'Winter in the Blood'

Longhouse Media's New Frontiers: A Journey Behind the Scenes of Winter in the Blood

We'll Know When We've Been There - a short documentary about the Fetzer Foundation's screenings and digital storytelling workshops