South Dakota film industry growing though still stymied by lack of incentives

South Dakota film industry growing though still stymied by lack of incentives

Last month, 1,100 theaters across the country showed a movie ostensibly set in rural South Dakota. The film, "Americana," features Sydney Sweeney as a small-town diner waitress on the hunt for a rare Lakota ghost shirt. Singer Halsey and Hunkpapa Lakota actor Zahn McLarnon also star. However, South Dakotans who watched "Americana" may have left confused at how the state was portrayed – vast, arid deserts and low, Southwestern-style buildings. Th…