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Declaration of Indigenous Cinema We the indigenous screen storytellers United in this Northern corner of our mother, the earth in a great assembly of wisdom we declare to all nations We glory in our past, • when our earth was nurturing our oral traditions • when night sky evoked the visions of our dreams • when the Sun and the Moon were our parents in stories told • when storytelling made us all brothers and sisters • when our stories brought forth great chiefs and leaders • when justice was upheld in the stories told We will, • Hold and manage Indigenous cultural and intellectual property • Ensure our continued recognition as primary guardians and interpreters of our culture • Respect Indigenous individuals and communities • Faithfully preserve our traditional knowledge with sound and image • Use our skills to communicate with nature and all living things • Heal our wounds through screen storytelling • Preserve and pass on our stories to those not yet born We will manage our own destiny and maintain our humanity and pride as indigenous peoples through screen storytelling. Guovdageaidnu, Sapmi, October 2011 Written by Åsa Simma (Sámi), with support from Darlene Johnson (Dunghutti), and accepted and recognized by the participants of the Indigenous Film Conference in Kautokeino, Sápmi, October 2011.

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Welcome On behalf of the Vision Maker Media Board and Staff we welcome you to the Seventh Biennial Vision Maker Film Festival. We have curated an exciting program of Indigenous films from around the world. “We Are All Related” is the theme of this year’s festival, and Dwayne Wilcox (Oglala) brings this concept to life with his ledger art drawing featured on this year’s poster. We are honored to bring films from our National Minority Consortia partners: Black Public Media, Center for Asian American Media, Latino Public Broadcasting and Pacific Islanders in Communications. Filmmakers representing these organizations will be part of Q&As and workshops during the festival. Vision Maker Media empowers and engages Native People to tell stories. We envision a world changed and healed by understanding Native stories and the public conversations they generate. This festival would not be possible without our partnership with the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center and the unwavering support from Director Danny Lee Ladely. As a national organization based in Lincoln, Nebraska, we want to share our work and passion with the region. We are incredibly grateful for the support of our many funders and volunteers who make it happen.

Shirley K. Sneve (Rosebud Sioux) Executive Director

Mark Trahant Chair, Vision Maker Media’s Board of Directors

Vision Maker Media Board of Directors Vice-chair: Maya Solis (Pascua Yaqui/Blackfeet)/Sundance Institute Secretary: Roy Clem (Eastern Band of Cherokee)/Alabama Public Television Treasurer: Randal P. Hansen/Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Joni Buffalohead (Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota)/BlueCross BlueShield; Robin Butterfield (Winnebago/Chippewa)/Educator; Brian Gunn (Colville) Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville PC; Franz Joachim/ New Mexico PBS; Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee)/Pipestem Law; Joely Proudfit (Luiseño)/California Indian Culture and Sovereignty Center; Elizabeth Weatherford/Indigenous Media Initiatives 3

Presenting Organizations Vision Maker Media Vision Maker Media (VMM) empowers and engages Native People to tell stories. We envision a world changed and healed by understanding Native stories and the public conversations they generate. VMM is the leading producer of American Indian and Alaska Native documentaries for Public Broadcasting, educational and home videos. All aspects of our programs encourage the involvement of young people to learn more about careers in the media— to be the next generation of storytellers. As a nonprofit 501(c)(3), VMM receives major funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

National Minority Consortia (NMC)

NMC

NATIONAL MINORITY CONSORTIA

The NMC has emerged as a leader in the field of independent filmmaking and more recently in digital media. We fund film and media makers, present works on public television and other venues, exhibit films and videos, and distribute works to schools and libraries. In addition, we facilitate a new media institute, production training, skills advancement, and career development through workshops, lectures and counseling. With primary funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the NMC serves as an important component of American public television. For more information, www.nmcmedia.org

For more information, www.visionmakermedia.org

The Ross Media Arts Center Offering concessions, two screens, and state-of-the-art sound and projection, the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center is one of the finest venues for independent and foreign cinema in the country. Featuring live performances via satellite of the MET Opera Live in HD and the London National Theatre series, as well as visiting media artists participating in the Norman A. Geske Cinema Showcase, The Ross offers vibrant and diverse programming. Take advantage of this Lincoln treasure and see the movies the rest of the country is talking about. Visit our website at www.theross.org for show times.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) CPB is a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. CPB is the steward of the federal government’s investment in public broadcasting and the largest single source of funding for public radio, television, and related online and mobile services. CPB’s mission is to ensure universal access to non-commercial, high-quality content and telecommunications services. It does so by distributing more than 70% of its funding to nearly 1,500 locally owned public radio and television stations. CPB strives to support diverse programs and services that inform, educate, enlighten and enrich the public. Through grants, CPB encourages the development of content that addresses the needs of underserved audiences, especially children and minorities. CPB also funds multiple digital platforms used by thousands of public media producers and production companies throughout the country. For more information, www.cpb.org

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Festival Schedule FRIDAY APRIL 20

1pm

SATURDAY APRIL 21

SUNDAY APRIL 22

Big Sky Native Filmmakers Documentary Challenge Shorts (p.10-12)

Kayak to Klemtu (p.16)

MONDAY APRIL 23

In the Beginning was Water & Sky (VMM) (p.12) A Redemption Story (VMM) (p.13)

3 pm

TUESDAY APRIL 24

WEDNESDAY APRIL 25

THURSDAY APRIL 26

Scan for information about the films

Keep Talking (VMM) (p.16)

On a Knife Edge (VMM) (p.13)

5:30 – 6:30 pm

5 pm

7 pm

9 pm

Frank Blythe Award for Media Excellence Reception (p.8)

RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World (VMM) (p.9)

When They Awake (p.9)

The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets (p.14) INAATE/SE/ (p.14)

Return to Rainy Mountain (VMM) (p.14) Ohiyesa: The Soul of an Indian (VMM) (p.15)

Through the Repellent Fence (VMM) (p.15)

Family Ingredients: Wisconsin (VMM) (p.17)

The Mayors of Shiprock (VMM) (p.20)

Growing Native: Oklahoma (VMM) (p.17)

Growing Native: Northwest (VMM) (p.20)

Dawnland (VMM) (p.18)

New Muslim Cool (LPB) (p.21)

Mele Murals (CAAM) (p.22)

Maria (PIC) (p.21)

E N C O R E

Street Cred (BPM) (p.18)

Question & Answer session following screening

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Out of State (PIC) (p.21)

More Than A Word (p.22)

RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World (VMM) (p.23)

Skindigenous: Hawaii (VMM) (p.24)

Skindigenous: Alaska (VMM) (p.28)

ANTIETHNOGRAPHY (p.24-26)

We Breathe Again (VMM) (p.28)

Dodging Bullets (p.27)

Waru (PIC) (p.27)

Metal Road (VMM) (p.29) Moroni for President (VMM) (p.29)

E N C O R E Kayak to Klemtu (p.29)

VMM (Vision Maker Media), BPM (Black Public Media), LPB (Latino Public Broadcasting), PIC (Pacific Islanders in Communications) CAAM (Center for Asian American Media)

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RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World

7 PM RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World

Friday, April 20

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM Frank Blythe Award for Media Excellence Reception Opening reception and presentation of the Frank Blythe Award for Media Excellence to Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree) and Harriett Skye, Ph.D. (Hunkpapa Lakota). In person: Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree) & Jessica Skye Paul (Hunkpapa Lakota) With an esteemed career spanning five decades to date, Buffy SainteMarie is an internationally renowned recording artist, activist, educator, visual artist, and winner of countless awards (Oscar, Juno, and Golden Globe, among them). Photo credit: Matt Barnes

Photo credit: The Bismarck Tribune

Harriett Skye, Ph.D., began her career in journalism as the editor of The Standing Rock Star in Fort Yates, ND. She went on to host her television show, Indian Country Today at KFYR TV in Bismarck, ND for 11 years. In 2016, Dr. Skye was inducted into the Native American Hall of Honor at the North Dakota state capitol.

Question & Answer session following screening VMM (Vision Maker Media), BPM (Black Public Media), LPB (Latino Public Broadcasting), PIC (Pacific Islanders in Communications) CAAM (Center for Asian American Media) 8

(Canada, 2017, 103 min.) (VMM) Director/Writer/Executive Producer: Catherine Bainbridge. Co-Director/Director of Photography: Alfonso Maiorana. Executive Producers: Stevie Salas (Apache), Tim Johnson (Mohawk). Producers: Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick, Lisa M. Roth RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World tells the story of a profound, essential, and, until now, missing chapter in the history of American music: the Indigenous influence. Featuring music icons Charley Patton (Cherokee), Mildred Bailey (Coeur d’Alene), Link Wray (Shawnee), Jimi Hendrix (Cherokee), Jesse Ed Davis (Kiowa), Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree), Robbie Robertson (Mohawk), and others. In person: Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree)

9 PM When They Awake

(Canada, 2017, 90 min.) Co-Director/Writer/Producer: P.J. Marcellino. Co-Director/Director of Photography/Editor: Hermon Farahi. Co-Producer: Stuart Henderson. Executive Producers: Susan Aglukark (Inuk), Gordon Henderson, Tiska Wiedermann. When They Awake is a vibrant celebration of Indigenous Canadian musicians. From Tanya Tagaq to A Tribe Called Red, When They Awake is a music revolution right before your eyes. INCLUDED WITH THE ALL ACCESS PASS

Sweet Country (Australia, 2018, 113 min.) Director: Warwick Thornton. Writers: David Tranter, Steven McGregor. Producers: Greer Simpkin, David Jowsey. An Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self defense and goes on the run as posse gathers to hunt him down.

Sweet Country will be playing in the second theatre April 20-26. Please visit the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center for show times. 9

Generations

Hinowu Hand Games

Saturday, April 21

1 PM Big Sky Native Filmmaker Documentary Challenge Shorts• Program running time: 48 minutes Generations•

(USA, 2017, 7 min.) Director: Anthony Florez (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe) An examination of Native identity as seen through the eyes of a mother and her children on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation of Northern Nevada.

Headdress•

(Canada, 2017, 6 min.) Director: JJ Neepin (Cree)

(USA, 2017, 5 min.) Director: Erin Lau (Native Hawaiian) Inspired by the saying: Aia no ka pua i luna (The flower is still on the tree). Ka Pua takes a glance into the life of 93-year-old Elizabeth Lau, as her beauty is reflected through her values and sense of aloha.

Protect•

(USA, 2017, 7 min.) Director: Deidra Peaches (Diné) Indigenous and other community organizers and advocates caravaned across the United States to gather stories from Indigenous communities at the forefront of work for a just transition from toxic to clean energy.

JJ Neepin is a female Indigenous filmmaker. With the help of photographer Nadya Kwandibens, JJ plans to recreate her great-grandfather’s portrait. The headdress is a powerful symbol with great meaning.

QAMANIQ•

Hinowu Hand Games•

A team of three women, embark on a quest to acquaint themselves with their ancestral lands. Covering 100 km in just a few days through Kuururjuaq National Park, along Mont d’Iberville, and across the Koroc River, the Inuit women embark on a mission to deepen a cultural and spiritual understanding of their background.

(USA, 2017, 5 min.) Director: Danny DeLeon

A combination of song and game, hand games offer a way for tribal communities to interact and engage in important tribal culture. Hinowu Hand Games explores this vital tool for preserving tribal heritage and looks at the ways it brings tribal communities together through a friendly competition in Lincoln, California. 10

Ka Pua•

(USA, 2017, 8 min.) Directors: Florence Pelletier, Caroline Côté. Producer: Charlotte Qamaniq (Inuk)

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Saturday, April 21

United by Water•

A Redemption Story

The five tribes of the Upper Columbia River unite on the water in traditional canoes for the first time since the Grand Coulee Dam flooded their waterways 76 years ago. With archival footage from the last Salmon Ceremony in 1940 and the 2016 tribal reunion at Kettle Falls, United by Water offers an expansive and historical look at an important history that is often overlooked.

A Redemption Story follows Leo Yankton (Oglala Lakota) and how he contributed in efforts to protect the water on the Standing Rock reservation, and continues to find ways to have a positive impact with Native County and the rest of the world.

(USA, 2017, 5 min.) Director: Derrick LaMere (Colville Confederated Tribes)

Turquoise•

(USA, 2017, 5 min.) Director: Michael Redhouse (Diné) The beauty of Native American jewelry is in the relationship of Grandmother and Granddaughter. Megan shares her story of how she connects to her Grandmother and her culture through turquoise.

In the Beginning was Water & Sky (USA, 2017, 14 min.) (VMM) Director/Writer: Ryan Ward. Producer: Mackenzie Gruer (Tyendinaga Mohawk)

In the Beginning Was Water and Sky is a short-form New Media project that tells two parallel stories about a Chippewa boy who runs away from an Indian Boarding School in the 1950s and a Chippewa girl who runs away from her village in the 1700s.

In the Beginning was Water & Sky

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3 PM (USA, 2017, 10 min) (VMM) Executive Producer: Shirley K. Sneve (Sicangu Lakota). Producer/Editor: Edmund Frazer Myer (Chehalis Tribe). Photographer: Charles “Boots” Kennedye (Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma)

In Person: Leo Yankton (Oglala Lakota)

On a Knife Edge

(USA, 2017, 90 min.) (VMM) Director: Jeremy Williams. Producer: Eli Cane On a Knife Edge is a coming-of-age story of George Dull Knife, a Lakota teenager growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. George is being raised by his single father, Guy Dull Knife, Jr. – a veteran of both Vietnam and the Occupation of Wounded Knee – and is inspired by his family legacy of survivors and leaders to help shape his own generation’s fight for social justice.



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Saturday, April 21

Return to Rainy Mountain

5 PM The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets

(USA, 2017, 30 min.) (VMM) Director/Producer/Writer: Jill Momaday (Kiowa). Associate Producers: Lisa Condon, Heather Rae (Cherokee)

(USA, 2017, 10 min.) Directors: Adam Khalil (Ojibway), Zach Khalil (Ojibway), Jackson Polys (Tlingit). Producers: Mariana Silva, Pedro Neves Marques, Contour 8 Biennial. Cinematographer Samuli Haavisto

Return to Rainy Mountain tells the story of N. Scott Momaday. It is a personal account of his life and legacy told in his voice, and in the voice of his daughter Jill. Momaday speaks of his Kiowa roots and the sacred and important things that have shaped his life.

An urgent reflection on indigenous sovereignty, the undead violence of museum archives, and postmortem justice through the case of the “Kennewick Man,” a prehistoric Paleo-American man whose remains were found in Kennewick, Washington, in 1996.

In Person: Jill Momaday (Kiowa)

In Person: Adam Khalil (Ojibway) & Zach Khalil (Ojibway)

INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place./it flies. falls./]

(USA, 2016, 75 min.) Directors/Cinematographers/Editors: Adam Khalil (Ojibway), Zach Khalil (Ojibway), Executive Producer: Steve Holmgren, Producers: Alex Lazarowich (Cree), Carolyn Lazard, Sam Richardson, Sarah Kerr This experimental documentary by Zack and Adam Khalil explores the Ojibwe story of the Seven Fires Prophecy, which has been interpreted as predicting the arrival of the Europeans in North America and the subsequent destruction they caused. The film examines the relationship between cultural tradition and modern indigenous identity. In Person: Adam Khalil (Ojibway) & Zach Khalil (Ojibway)



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7 PM

Ohiyesa: The Soul of an Indian

(USA, 2018, 57 min.) (VMM) Executive Producer: Syd Beane (Flandreau Santee Sioux). Narrator/Co-Writer/Historical Researcher: Kate Beane (Flandreau Santee Sioux and Muskogee Creek). Producer/ Director: Jesse Heinzen Follow Kate Beane, a young Dakota woman, as she examines the life of her celebrated relative, Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa). Biography and journey come together as Kate traces Eastman’s path—from traditional Dakota boyhood, education at Dartmouth College, and later as a physician, author, lecturer and Native American advocate. In Person: Syd Beane (Flandreau Santee Sioux)

9 PM Through the Repellent Fence

(USA, 2017, 74 min.) (VMM) Director: Sam Wainwright Douglas. Producers: Julianna Brannum (Comanche), Jeffrey Brown, David Hartstein. Executive Producers: Shirley K. Sneve (Sicangu Lakota), Paul Allen Hunton Through the Repellent Fence follows Native American art collective Postcommodity as they construct Repellent Fence, a two-mile long outdoor artwork straddling the U.S.-Mexico border a mile in each direction and suturing the region back together.

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Keep Talking

Growing Native: Oklahoma

Sunday, April 22

1 PM

5 PM

Kayak to Klemtu

Family Ingredients: Wisconsin – Fiddlehead Fern

(Canada, 2017, 90 min.) Director/Writer: Zoe Leigh Hopkins (Heiltsuk/Mohawk). Producer: Daniel Beckermann. Executive Producers: Christopher Yurkovich, Alex Ordanis, Ethan Lazar 14-year-old Ella is determined to travel the length of the Inside Passage, along the shores of the Great Bear Rainforest by kayak in order to testify against a proposed pipeline that would see oil tanker traffic through her beloved homeland waters. In Person: Zoe Leigh Hopkins (Heiltsuk/Mohawk)

3 PM Keep Talking

(USA, 2017, 79 min.) (VMM) Director/Producer: Karen Lynn Weinberg. Executive Producer/Consulting Editor: Gordon Quinn. Executive Producers: Justin Nagan, Betsy Steinberg. Co-Producers: Trish Dalton, Rachel Rozycki, Kari Sherod (Native Village of Afognak) Four Alaska Native women are fighting to save the threatened language of Kodiak Alutiq, an endangered language spoken by less than 40 remaining fluent Native Elders. Keep Talking follows these women and their small community as they travel to the remote Afognak Island to start teaching the children Alutiiq.

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(USA, 2017, 26 min.) (VMM) Director/Writer: Ty Sanga (Native Hawaiian). Executive Director: Heather H. Giugni (Native Hawaiian). Producer/Cinematographer: Renea Veneri Stewart. Producer/Researcher: Dan Nakasone Kaua’i farmer Valerie Kaneshiro, a mixture of Japanese and Native American, was raised on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation in Wisconsin. Forced to leave her home at 15, Valerie tells a story of loss and re-discovery while sharing an ingredient to a cultural dish found in Wisconsin and Hawai’i.

Growing Native: Oklahoma

(USA, 2017, 60 min.) (VMM) Director/Producer/Writer: Charles “Boots” Kennedye (Kiowa) Moses Brings Plenty guides this episode of Growing Native, on a journey to Oklahoma’s past and present. What he discovers among the many faces of Oklahoma culture is the determination, values and respect that tribes have brought to this land, once called Indian Territory. In Person: Charles “Boots” Kennedye (Kiowa) Question & Answer session following screening VMM (Vision Maker Media), BPM (Black Public Media), LPB (Latino Public Broadcasting), PIC (Pacific Islanders in Communications) CAAM (Center for Asian American Media) 17

Dawnland

Sunday, April 22

7 PM Dawnland

(USA, 2018, 86 min.) (VMM) Directors: Adam Mazo, Ben Pender-Cudlip. Producers: Adam Mazo, N. Bruce Duthu (United Houma Nation of Louisana). Executive Producer: Heather Rae, Beth Murphy, Shirley K. Sneve (Sicangu Lakota). Impact Producer: Tracy Rector (Choctaw/Seminole) For decades, child welfare authorities have been removing Native American children from their homes to save them from being Indian. Dawnland goes behind-the-scenes as the first official “truth and reconciliation commission” begins a historic investigation and charts a new course for state and tribal relations. In Person: Tracy Rector (Choctaw/Seminole)

9 PM Street Cred

(USA, 2018, 56 min.) Executive Producers: Leslie Fields-Cruz, Kay Shaw, Rishi Moudgil, Exxodus Pictures. Creater/Writer/ Showrunner: Sultan Sharrief. Producers: Ben Friedman, Oren Goldenberg, Sara Moss. Street Cred is a new docu-drama done in the style of a reality show. It challenges eight inner city youth (18-22) to apply their inherent grit and street smarts for a chance to get their own film funded and a dream internship. In Person: Sultan Sharrief



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Street Cred

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7 PM New Muslim Cool

(USA, 2009, 90 min.) (LPB) Director/Producer: Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, Co-Producers: Kauthar Umar, Hana Siddiqi The Mayors of Shiprock

Monday, April 23

New Muslim Cool follows the life of Hamza Perez, a Puerto Rican-American Rap artist who converted to Islam after he decided to quit his life as a drug dealer. Hamza spends his time on the streets and jail cells spreading the message of Islam to at-risk youth and communities. In Person: Jennifer Maytorenna Taylor

5 PM The Mayors of Shiprock

(USA, 2017, 52 min.) (VMM) Director/Producer/Editor: Ramona Emerson (Diné). Producer: Kelly Byars (Choctaw/Chickasaw) For over three years, the Northern Diné Youth Committee has worked to make their hometown of Shiprock, New Mexico a better place. Their founder, Graham Beyale has led the charge.

Growing Native: Northwest

(USA, 2014, 60 min.) (VMM) Director/Producer Writer: Charles “Boots” Kennedye (Kiowa) Chris Eyre ventures to the Pacific Northwest to capture the stories of ongoing traditions and perseverance of its original inhabitants; from Canoe Journey, to totem poles, language preservation and traditional crafts, Eyre discovers what it means to be Growing Native. In Person: Charles “Boots” Kennedye (Kiowa)


9 PM Maria

(USA, Aotearoa, 15 min.) (PIC) Director: Jeremiah Tauamiti (Samoa). Producer: Karin Williams. Writer: Taofia Pelesasa (Samoa/Tokelau) The matriarch of a large Polynesian family lies bedridden and silent, unable or unwilling to speak after a long illness. When a family crisis strikes, Nan Maria gets unexpected help as she struggles to reunite her fractured family. In Person: Karin Williams (Cook Islands)

Out of State

(USA, 2017, 82 min.) (PIC) Director/Producer: Ciara Lacy (Kanaka Maoli). Producer: Beau Bassett. Executive Producer: Terry Leonard David and Hale are two incarcerated criminals who share a common background: their Hawaiian roots. Telling the story of two men who discover their indigenous traditions from behind bars, Out of State follows David and Hale as they return back to Hawaiian life and uncover the challenges that await them as they adjust to life outside of prison.


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More Than A Word

Mele Murals

Tuesday, April 24

5 PM

9 PM

More Than A Word

E N C O R E

(USA, 2017, 70 min.) Directors: Kenn Little (Hunkpapa Lakota) & John Little (Hunkpapa Lakota) More Than A Word analyzes the Washington football team and their use of the derogatory term R*dskins. Using interviews from both those in favor of changing the name and those against, More Than A Word presents a deeper analysis of the many issues surrounding the Washington team name.

7 PM Mele Murals

(USA, 2016, 64 min.) (CAAM) Director/Editor/Producer: Tadashi Nakamura. Executive Producer: Keoni Lee (Native Hawaiian). Producer: Keoni Lee (Native Hawaiian) Mele Murals is a documentary on the transformative power of modern graffiti art and ancient Hawai’ian culture for a new generation of Native Hawai’ians. At the center of the story are two renowned street artists - Estria Miyashiro (aka Estria) and John Hina (aka Prime) - a group of Native Hawaiian youth, and the rural community of Waimea. In Person: Tadashi Nakamura

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RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World

(USA, 2017, 103 min.) Director/Writer/Executive Producer: Catherine Bainbridge. Co-Director/Director of Photography: Alfonso Maiorana. Executive Producers: Stevie Salas (Apache), Tim Johnson (Mohawk). Producers: Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick, Lisa M. Roth RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World tells the story of a profound, essential, and, until now, missing chapter in the history of American music: the Indigenous influence. Featuring music icons Charley Patton (Cherokee), Mildred Bailey (Coeur d’Alene), Link Wray (Shawnee), Jimi Hendrix (Cherokee), Jesse Ed Davis (Kiowa), Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree), Robbie Robertson (Mohawk), and others.



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Skindigenous: Hawai’i

ANTI-ETHNOGRAPHY

Wednesday, April 25

5 PM

The Laughing Alligator•

Skindigenous: Hawai’i

Juan Downey

(USA, 2018, 22 min.) (VMM) Director/Writer: Jean-François Martel Skindigenous is a thirteen-part documentary series on the art of tattooing, as practiced by indigenous peoples around the world. If Keone Nunes had never picked up the tools and answered the call to master of kakau, there would likely be no traditional tattooing in Hawai‘i today.

(1979, digital projection, 27 mins)

Overweight with Crooked Teeth• (1997, digital projection, 5 mins) Shelley Niro (Mohawk)

Auntie Beachress - Are You Looking at Me?• (2015, digital projection, 15 secs)

Tonia Jo Hall (Dakota, Lakota, Hidatsa)

Instant Identity Ritual•

ANTI-ETHNOGRAPHY Shorts• Program running time: 70 min.

(2007, digital projection, 2 mins) Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Gustavo Vázquez

Bizarre Thanksgiving Performance Ritual•

Sioux Ghost Dance•

2013, digital projection, 2 mins

(1894, digital projection, 1 min)

Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Gustavo Vázquez

W.K.L. Dickson/Thomas Edison

Shooting Geronimo•

Welcome to the Third World•



Kent Monkman (Cree)

Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Auntie Beachress - Love’s All Native Men• (2015, digital projection, 15 secs)

Tonia Jo Hall (Dakota, Lakota, Hidatsa) VMM (Vision Maker Media), BPM (Black Public Media), LPB (Latino Public Broadcasting), PIC (Pacific Islanders in Communications) CAAM (Center for Asian American Media)

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Wednesday, April 25

Auntie Beachress Lakota Language Challenge• (2015, digital projection, 15 secs)


wawa•

(2014, digital projection, 6 mins) Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians)

Auntie Beachress Only Boring People Get Bored• (2015, digital projection, 14 secs)


Dance to Miss Chief•

(2010, digital projection, 5 mins) Kent Monkman (Cree)

Auntie Beachress - Life’s Struggles• (2015, digital projection, 14 secs)



7 PM Dodging Bullets: Stories of Survivors of Historical Trauma (USA, 2018, 99 min.) Directors: Kathy Broere (Blackfeet), Sarah Edstrom (Anishinabe), Jonathan Thunder. Co-Director/Editor: Bob Trench. Producer: Tom Trench

Native Americans have dodged bullets since the first contact with Europeans. This film brings a cross-generational sampling of Indigenous people, researchers and politicians to reveal stunning reasons for their disproportionately high incidences of health and social issues. This collection of remarkable stories, names historical trauma as the unique and insidious part of the generic code that resilient Native American populations are still finding ways to dodge. In Person: Bob Trench and Mike Her Many Horses (Oglala Lakota)

Waru

(2017, Aotearoa, 86 min.) (PIC) Producers: Kerry Warkia & Kiel McNaughton; Writer/ Directors - Briar Grace-Smith (W¯ ahine M a ¯ ori), Casey Kaa (W¯ ahine M¯ aori), Ainsley Gardiner (W¯ ahine M¯ aori), Katie Wolfe (W¯ ahine M¯ aori), Renae Maihi (W¯ ahine M¯ aori), Chelsea Cohen (W¯ ahine M a ¯ ori), Paula Jones (W¯ ahine M¯ aori); Writer/Director team - Awanui SimichPene (W¯ ahine M¯aori), & Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu (W¯ ahine M¯ aori) Eight female M¯ aori directors have each contributed a ten minute vignette, presented as a continuous shot in real time that unfolds around the tangi (funeral) of a small boy (Waru) who died at the hands of his caregiver. The vignettes are all subtly interlinked and each follow one of eight female M¯ aori lead characters during the same moment in time as they come to terms with Waru’s death and try to find a way forward in their community. In M¯ aori, waru means 8. Rated M for Mature Audiences

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We Breathe Again

7 PM Metal Road

(USA, 2017, 27 min.) Director: Sarah Del Seronde (Diné). Producer: Leighton C. Peterson

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5 PM Skindigenous: Alaska

(USA, 2018, 22 min.) (VMM) Director/Writer: Sonia Bonspille-Boileau Skindigenous is a thirteen-part documentary series on the art of tattooing, as practiced by indigenous peoples around the world. Marjorie Tahbone, an Alaskan artist of Inupiaq heritage, was first among the living women of her family to get her traditional chin tattoo.

We Breathe Again

For decades, thousands of Navajos worked the railroads, maintaining the trans-continental network. Metal Road explores the dynamics of livelihood, family and the railroads through the lens of a Navajo trackman.

Moroni for President

(USA, 2018, 78 min.) (VMM) Director/Producer: Saila Huusko, Jasper Rischen. Producers: Sara Goldblatt, Mel Shimkovitz. Executive Producer: Billy Luther (Diné/Hopi/Laguna Pueblo) Moroni Benally is running for the presidency of the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American nation in the U.S. Young, gay, Mormon and highly educated, he sets out to confront the political establishment in a homecoming that challenges what he both imagined home, and himself, to be.

(USA, 2017, 57 min.) (VMM) Director/Producer/Cinematographer/Editor: Marsh Chamberlain. Executive Producer: Evon Peter (Gwich’in). Producer: Enei Begaye Peter (Diné)

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We Breathe Again intimately explores the lives of five Alaska Native people, each confronting the impacts of historic and contemporary trauma. Reflected in the northern lights and the city streetlights, from the ice roads to the asphalt, the characters battle for personal healing, hoping to break new trail for their families and their communities to follow.

(Canada, 2017, 90 min.) Director/Writer: Zoe Leigh Hopkins (Heiltsuk/Mohawk). Producer: Daniel Beckermann. Executive Producers: Christopher Yurkovich, Alex Ordanis, Ethan Lazar

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Kayak to Klemtu

14-year-old Ella is determined to travel the length of the Inside Passage, along the shores of the Great Bear Rainforest by kayak in order to testify against a proposed pipeline that would see oil tanker traffic through her beloved homeland waters.

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