‘Running Deer’ world premiere shines at UltraStar

“Twilight’s” Booboo Stewart, and the main character in “Running Deer,” walked the red carpet Saturday with co-star and native film mainstay John Proudstar and director Brent Ryan Green at UltraStar Multi-tainment Center for the worldwide premiere.

The trio stopped for photos and after the Toy Gun Films’ movie, held a question-and-answer session and signed autographs.

“Me being a single father, it (the script) resonated with me,” Proudstar said. “I’m a cynical guy and I saw the writer was someone named Goldberg and I thought, ‘Yeah what does this guy know.’ Once I read it I found out that it really spoke to me in a positive way.”

During the Q-and-A session, audience members got to learn such secrets of the film’s production as how the medals Stewart’s character has in his room were actually earned by Green and his father when they ran cross-country.

Recently Stewart was cast as Warpath in the upcoming X-Men film, “X-men: Days of Future Past,” and Proudstar said he wouldn’t want anyone else to play the role of the first Native American character in the X-Men films.