Film being made on Fort Mojave Indian Tribe Reservation

NEEDLES — Scenes from a movie — The Road to Paloma — are being filmed over a 21⁄2-week period on and around the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe reservation. The movie stars Jason Momoa, most recently seen in 2011 film Conan the Barbarian.

Momoa was also featured in the television series Stargate: Atlantis.

Momoa, 32, co-wrote the script of the Road to Paloma with actor Robert Mollohan, who also appears in the film. Momoa is producing and directing the film with his crew of four people.

He plays a character who is a Mojave tribal member on the run, returning home after a six month absence. Regarding his decision to use the reservation as a major backdrop for the film, Momoa said, "Basically all the things that were in the script really just fit."

The movie's very beginning was shot and made into a trailer.

"We shot the first 18 minutes and we used that to make a pitch package," for financing, Momoa said.

More filming will be done in Amboy, Joshua Tree and Bishop, Calif., as well as the Los Angeles area, he said.

The movie has to be ready for September when Momoa wants to submit it to Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival in Utah.

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