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Please be aware that this content is current as of November
2000.
The 11th Native American Film and Video Festival celebrates the
many remarkable recent accomplishments in the field of Native
media, presenting works from Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico,
the continental United States, and Hawai'i. This year showcases
100 new productions-radio programs, multimedia and Website works,
and 75 films and videos. The screenings include feature films,
short fictions, experimental videos, community productions, music
videos, and documentaries. Organized by the Film and Video Center
of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, the
festival is being presented in New York City at the George Gustav
Heye Center, the Donnell Library Center of The New York Public
Library, and the American Indian Community House.
The festival program has been chosen by invited selectors-Native
American media makers and cultural activists-and the Film and
Video Center program staff. Additional input from experts in the
field have made it possible to program 50 different radio, multimedia,
and Website productions, and to develop the festival's high school
programs. An extensive network of Native and independent producers,
cultural experts, and media organizations have contributed to
the success of this event. As the FVC begins this year to celebrate
its twentieth anniversary, we wish to express our gratitude to
all those whose efforts have made this year's festival so exceptional.
Selectors
Peggy Berryhill,
G. Peter Jemison, Crisanto
Manzano Avella, and Beverly
Singer
Titles
This is an alphabetical list of films shown at the Festival.
If a film has a description availble in HTML format, it will
be linked from the list below. For descriptions for all other
titles, please enter here
to go to the By Title (PDF) and search for the title.
Acknowledgments
Festival Sponsors
Support for the festival has been received from the Latino
Initiatives Fund, administered by the Smithsonian Center for
Latino Initiatives.
The festival is also made possible with public funds from the
New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency and with
generous support from:
- The Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade
- Mexican Cultural Institute of New York
- The Canada Council
- Alaska State Council on the Arts
- Varig Airlines
- NAPT - Native American Public Telecommunications
Native Networks Website Sponsor:
Additional festival support has been
provided by:
- American Indian Community House
- Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers
- Circle of Red Nations, WBAI-FM
- Donnell Media Center of the New York Public Library
- Film/Video Arts
- Margaret Mead Film Festival
- Media Alliance
- New York University's Asian/Pacific-American Studies Program
- New York University's Center for Media, Culture and History
- New York Women in Film and Television
- Thirteen-WNET
- Thundergulch
- Women Make Movies
Living Voices/Voces Vivas
Support for the production of this radio series has been received
from the Latino Initiatives Fund, administered by the Smithsonian
Center for Latino Initiatives.
Living Voices/Voces Vivas Project Team:
- Keevin Lewis (Navajo) and Elizabeth Weatherford, Executive
Producers
- Nan Rubin, Production Coordinator
- Conroy Chino (Acoma), Announcer
- Peggy Berryhill (Muscogee Creek) and Ginger Miles, Writers
- Samuel Orozco and Citlali Saenz of Radio Bilingue, Producers,
Voces Vivas
- Caleb Strickland (Lumbee) and Jessica Cattelino, Production/Website
Assistants Produced at Mercer Street Sound
- Music motif by Ulali
- Distributed by NMAI
- Satellite Broadcasters: AIROS American Indian Radio on Satellite
and Radio Bilingüe/Satellite
The project acknowledges with gratitude the excellent interviews
conducted by more than 25 interviewers and the generous sharing
of their thoughts and life stories by more than 50 Native
people from Canada, Mexico, Panama, the continental United
States, and Hawai'i. A joint production of NMAI's Film and
Video Center and Community Services Department.
Acknowledgments
- Francine Berkowitz, Smithsonian Institution's International
Gallery
- Joanna Bigfeather (Western Band Cherokee-Mescalero Apache),
Museum of the Institute of American Indian Arts
- James Billie, Chairman, Seminole Tribe of Indians
- Kathy Brew, Thundergulch
- Bruni Burres and John Anderson, Human Rights Watch Film Festival
- Jorge Capetillo Ponce, The Mexican Cultural Institute
- Vincent Carelli, Video in the Villages
- Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh
- Elaine Charnov, Margaret Mead Film Festival
- Billy Cypress, Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, Big Cypress Seminole
Reservation
- Mary Ellen Davis, First Peoples' Festival, Montreal
- Gary Farmer, Aboriginal Voices
- Jon Funabiki, The Ford Foundation
- Linda Gibson and Board of Directors, Media Alliance
- Faye Ginsburg, NYU's Program in Media and Culture
- Catherine Griggs, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL
- Carlos Gutierrez, The Mexican Cultural Center
- Karen Helmerson and Claude Meyer, New York State Council on
the Arts
- Melanie Printup Hope, Web consultant
- Steering Committee, Independent Media Archives Project (IMAP)
- Lillian Jimenez, consultant
- Terry Lawler and Jancy Ball, New York Women in Film and Television
- Anna Lefer, Youth Media Initiative, Open Society Institute
- Paul Santo Menna, Native Visions Program, Center for American
Indian Health, Johns Hopkins University
- Ginger Miles, radio producer
- Guillermo Monteforte, filmmaker
- Hugo Morales, Samuel Orozco and Citlali Saenz, Radio Bilingüe
- Marie Nesthus, Donnell Media Center
- Eileen Newman and Duanna Butler, Film/Video Arts
- Sue Oscar, Filmmaker's Library
- Elizabeth Peters and Michelle Coe, Association of Independent
Video and Filmmakers
- Karen Ranucci, Latin American Video Archives (LAVA)
- Carolyn Rapkievian, Acting Assistant Director for Public Programs,
NMAI
- Rosemary Richmond, American Indian Community House
- Bird Running Water, consultant
- Nicolasa Sandoval, Acting Assistant Director for Community
Services, NMAI
- John Philip Santos, The Ford Foundation
- Ivan Sanjines, CEFREC, Bolivia
- Bill Seery and Alex Noyes, Mercer Street Sound
- John Sirabella, National Film Board of Canada
- Flo Stone and Georgina Owen, Environmental Film Festival,
Washington, DC
- Lilie Zendel, Canadian Consulate General
- Deborah Zimmerman, Women Make Movies
Calendar - PDF
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Image credits: Alcatraz
Is Not an Island - Courtesy James M. Fortier
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