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DALLAS, TEXAS - Rich-Heape Films, a Native American owned corporation, has been contracted by the National Park Service and the Cherokee National Historical Society to produce video segments for the new Trail of Tears exhibit at the Cherokee Heritage Center in Tahlequah, OK.

"The videos required for this exhibit mirror the kind of work we have been doing for years in our video productions released to the public," said Steven R. Heape, President of Rich-Heape Films. Director Chip Richie describes the project as "an opportunity to bring to life the sounds and images from a great heritage of both oral and written history."

Video segments will include a storytelling re-creation, a reprise of historical Cherokee Advocate newspaper articles, interviews with people whose ancestors traveled the Trail of Tears and a retrospective of traditional Cherokee values. The exhibit is scheduled to open to the public in May 2001.

Rich-Heape Films, a full service film and video production company, specializes in the conception, production, marketing and distribution of special interest films on Native American topics.