Erik Kaufman joined the Mitchell Republic in July of 2019 as an education and features reporter. He grew up in Freeman, S.D., ...

Movie-goers can soon sense the warmth themselves in his latest film, “Lost on a Mountain in Maine,” a PG-rated, family ...

The Pierre-to-Hollywood pipeline isn’t really a thing, but Andrew Kightlinger might change that as the Pierre native’s ...

When he ran cross-country for T.F. Riggs High School, dreaming of one day making movies in Hollywood, Andrew Kightlinger ...

A movie with a South Dakota connection is set to hit theaters soon. The film’s director moved to Pierre when he was 12 and ...

A movie directed by a man who grew up in Pierre opens in theaters across the United States on Friday (Nov. 1, 2024). Andrew ...

By Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli, Houlton Pioneer Times Staff For 98 minutes, about 1,600 school kids, from Millinocket to Fort ...

Similarly to George Clooney’s recent yawner The Boys in the Boat, Andrew Kightlinger’s adaptation of Donn Fendler’s ...

Kightlinger was born in Madagascar, but his father was originally from South Dakota. The family moved back to South Dakota when Kightlinger was 12.

Despite its predictability and stretches of pokey pacing, director Andrew Boodhoo Kightlinger’s drama remains engrossing ...

The movie based on Donn Fendler's classic survival memoir "Lost on a Mountain in Maine" hit theaters on Friday.

Lost On a Mountain in Maine tells the real-life story of a boy who was lost for nine days in the backwoods of Maine.