Rocker making Conquest film

Astbury Making Movie Based On Nobel Prize Winner's BookTHE CULT frontman IAN ASTBURY is hoping to add documentarian to his resume by making a movie based on Nobel Prize-winning author Andrea Smith's book Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide.

The rocker, who has always been fascinated by Native American culture, has teamed up with filmmaker Mona Lavelle to develop the hard-hitting movie.

He tells Billboard.com, "It's (film) to do with matricide and how our culture destroys women, and how society still isn't working for the woman.

"We haven't been in a place where women have been in charge for thousands of years. That's one of the underlying things of the documentary."And:Meanwhile, Astbury is also behind the camera on two short film projects, including one he describes as "almost a Romeo and Juliet story set on a (Indian) reservation."
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