August 20 - 24, 2003
THE NATIVE CINEMA SHOWCASE is a festival of
film and video that celebrates diversity in the media arts by
exhibiting film and video by and concerning Native Americans.
Produced by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian,
CCA Cinematheque, and Taos Talking Pictures, the Showcase exhibits
preeminent contemporary Native cinema to the northern New Mexico
community and national and international visitors who come to
Santa Fe for the renowned Indian Market.
Featured Works
Film
& Video Programs, Native Cinema Showcase - Schedule at-a-glance
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7 pm
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Heart of Light
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CCA Cinematheque
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7:45 pm
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Discovering
Dominga In person: director Patricia Flynn
preceded by Hecho
a Mano: Tres Historias de Guatemala
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CCA Video Hall
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5 pm
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Nuestra Tierra/Our Land
(Various Titles, Total run time: 84 min.) Works from
the vibrant Native video culture in Mexico's southern indigenous
regions-Chiapas, Guerrero, Michoacan and Oaxaca-reflect
the richness of community life and the constant struggle
to maintain autonomy facing Native peoples. Including:
Xanini,
Guia Toó/Powerful
Mountain, and Reclaiming
Justice: The Indigenous Community Police of Guerrero.
Invited: Alex Halkin
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CCA Video Hall
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5:15 pm
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Meet Lena Carr
(Discussion and clips. Approximate Program Time: 90
min.) This program brings one of America's finest documentary
filmmakers to the Showcase. Lena Carr (Navajo) directed
the Emmy-Award-winning
War Code: Navajo. She'll screen
Kinaaldá:
Navajo Rite of Passage and clips from
her upcoming work One Boy, One Sky.
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CCA Cinematheque
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7 pm
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Cowboys
and Indians: The J. J. Harper Story In person:
producers Eric Jordan and Jeremy Torrie (Ojibwe), director
Norma Bailey preceded by Yada
Yada
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CCA Cinematheque
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7:45 pm
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Variety Show
Join emcee Harlan McKosato (Sac/Fox/Ioway), the host and
producer of the radio show Native America Calling, as we
celebrate modern and traditional music and poetry with this
show, which includes performances by the acclaimed duo National
Braid (Brad Kahlhamer and Laura Ortman) and the always
popular Black Eagle Powwow Group, along with other
performers to be announced.
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CCA Video Hall
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11 am
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Women, Art, and Film
Broadcast live on Native America Calling. Indigenous
women artists have become the subjects and creators of some
of the most provocative, challenging, and rewarding films
seen anywhere in contemporary cinema. How can these artists
help shape a new kind of moviemaking, and change perceptions
of what is possible with the moving image? Panelists include
Nora Naranjo-Morse, Charlene Teters, Loretta Todd, Elizabeth
Weatherford, and others to be announced.
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IAIA sculpture garden
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3 pm
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Cowboys
and Indians: The J. J. Harper Story In person:
producers Eric Jordan and Jeremy Torrie (Ojibwe), director
Norma Bailey preceded by Yada
Yada
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CCA Cinematheque
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3:30 pm
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In Whose
Honor? Shown in conjunction with the
installation/exhibit We Were Like Custer
by Charlene Teters preceded by NTV
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CCA Video Hall
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5 pm
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Kainayssini
Imanistaisiwa: The People Go On In person:
Loretta Todd preceded by Pott
Star
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CCA Cinematheque
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5:30 pm
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Discovering
Dominga In person: director Patricia Flynn
preceded by Hecho
a Mano: Tres Historias de Guatemala
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CCA Video Hall
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7 pm
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Beneath
Clouds In person: director Ivan Sen
preceded by Shit
Skin
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CCA Cinematheque
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8 pm
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Heart
of the Sea preceded by i
scream, floats & Sundays
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CCA Video Hall
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8:30 pm
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Redskin,
with National Braid
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CCA Open Air Cinema
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11 am
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Magical Tales
(Various Titles, Total Running Time: 45 min.) This program
of short works for children is presented in conjunction
with Kids' First! Festival/Coalition for Quality Children's
Media. Young curators from the Junior Film Critics Club
at the Santa Fe Public Schools' Indian Education summer
school program chose these films, and will help present
them at the screening. More details on the program will
be posted at the Kids' First website, www.cqcm.org/kidsfirst/index.shtml.
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CCA Video Hall
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12 pm
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Heart of Light
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CCA Cinematheque
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1:30 pm
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Nuestra Tierra/Our Land
(Various Titles, Total run time: 84 min.) Works from
the vibrant Native video culture in Mexico's southern indigenous
regions-Chiapas, Guerrero, Michoacan and Oaxaca-reflect
the richness of community life and the constant struggle
to maintain autonomy facing Native peoples. Including:
Xanini,
Guia Toó/Powerful
Mountain, and Reclaiming
Justice: The Indigenous Community Police of Guerrero.
Invited: Alex Halkin
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CCA Video Hall
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2pm
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Beneath Clouds
In person: director Ivan Sen preceded by Shit
Skin
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CCA Cinematheque
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3:30 pm
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Heart
of the Sea
preceded by i
scream, floats & Sundays
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CCA Video Hall
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4 pm
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TBA
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CCA Cinematheque
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5:30 pm
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Today
Is a Good Day sceened as part of the Remembering
Chief Dan George tribute.
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CCA Video Hall
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6:30 pm
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Cowboys
and Indians: The J. J. Harper Story In person:
producers Eric Jordan and Jeremy Torrie (Ojibwe), director
Norma Bailey preceded by Yada
Yada
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CCA Cinematheque
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8 pm
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Native Boutique
(Various Titles, Total Running Time: 110 min.) A selection
of short films explores the role of artmaking and creativity,
in its many forms, in Native culture. Including: Clay
Beings, Eagle
Song, Darren
Vigil Gray: Clockwise, and Boutique
of the Damned. With thanks to Jon Bowman and
the Santa Fe Film Festival's Stop by the Native Boutique.
Many of the filmmakers will attend.
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CCA Video Hall
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8:30 pm
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Little Big
Man Outdoor Screening as part of the
Remembering Chief Dan George
tribute.
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CCA Cinematheque
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2 pm
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Kainayssini
Imanistaisiwa: The People Go On In person:
Loretta Todd preceded by Pott
Star
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CCA Cinematheque
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3:30 pm
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Native Boutique
(Various Titles, Total Running Time: 110 min.) A selection
of short films explores the role of artmaking and creativity,
in its many forms, in Native culture. Including: Clay
Beings, Eagle
Song, Darren
Vigil Gray: Clockwise, and Boutique
of the Damned. With thanks to Jon Bowman and
the Santa Fe Film Festival's Stop by the Native Boutique.
Many of the filmmakers will attend.
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CCA Video Hall
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4 pm
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Beneath Clouds
In person: director Ivan Sen preceded by Shit
Skin
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CCA Cinematheque
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5:30 pm
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TBA
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CCA Video Hall
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7:30 pm
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Heart of
Light
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CCA Cinematheque
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7:45 pm
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TBA
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CCA Video Hall
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How to attend the Showcase
Patron Passes, including priority access to all Native Showcase
events, are available for $150.
All film/video shows are $8 general, $6 for NMAI, CCA, and Taos
Talking Pictures members.
Panel discussions are free and open to the public on a first-come,
first-served basis.
Tickets and passes available at the CCA Cinematheque box office
beginning at 2 pm Friday, August 8.
The CCA Cinematheque is located at 1050 Old Pecos Trail, behind
the Santa Fe Armory for the Arts. All events subject to change.
Call 505-982-1338 for box office schedule and Showcase updates.
Announcing
THE CCA CINEMATHEQUE'S OPEN AIR CINEMA
On Friday and Saturday night, we'll be showing films under the
stars-the best way to watch in the summer. There is no seating.
Bring your blankets and picnic baskets!
Showcase Directors
National Museum of the American Indian, Film and Video Center:
Elizabeth Weatherford, director and founder; Michelle Svenson,
media festivals coordinator.
CCA Cinematheque: Jerry Barron, director.
Taos Talking Pictures:
Jason Silverman, artistic director.
Established in 1989, through an Act of Congress, the SMITHSONIAN
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN is a museum of living
cultures dedicated to the life, languages, literature, history,
and arts of the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere. The
Museum includes the George Gustav Heye Center, a permanent exhibition
and education facility in New York City and the Cultural Resources
Center, a research and collection facility in Suitland, Maryland.
A museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. is now under
construction and will open in 2004. For additional information
on supporting the museum or becoming a Charter Member, please
visit the Website at www.AmericanIndian.si.edu
or call 1-800-242-NMAI (6624). Questions may be emailed to aimember@nmai.si.edu.
THE CCA CINEMATHEQUE is a division of the Center for Contemporary
Arts of Santa Fe. The Cinematheque showcases the best in world
cinema, focusing on independent film, foreign cinema, documentaries,
and Hollywood classics. Call 505-982-1338 for information and
schedule of events. CCA is funded in part by the by the City of
Santa Fe Arts Commission, the 1% Lodger's Tax, and New Mexico
Arts, a division of the Office of Cultural Affairs and the National
Endowment for the Arts.
TAOS TALKING PICTURES is a not-for-profit media arts organization
that encourages the thoughtful production and informed consumption
of the modern media. TTPix produces year round educational events,
including the annual Taos Talking Picture Festival, rated one
of the top ten festivals in the world in the 1999 Ultimate Film
Festival Survival Guide. The 2004 Taos Talking Picture Festival
takes place April 15-18. Information can be found at www.ttpix.org
and 505-751-0637.
Presenting Organizations
THE POND FOUNDATION is a sponsor of The Native Cinema
Showcase and the CCA Cinematheque. The Pond Foundation is a small,
private foundation and does not accept unsolicited proposals.
THE INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS is a fine arts college,
with a museum, devoted to Contemporary Native American art. Located
in historic Santa Fe, the IAIA is currently undergoing a major
period of expansion as a four-year college.
NATIVE AMERICA CALLING is a live call-in program, linking
public radio stations, the Internet, and listeners together in
a thought-provoking national conversation about issues specific
to Native communities. The show is heard daily on more than 60
stations in the United States, and in Canada by more than 37,000
Native listeners.
THE COALITION FOR QUALITY CHILDREN'S MEDIA is a national
not-for-profit organization founded in 1991. A voluntary collaboration
of media industry companies, educators, child advocacy organizations,
and families, the organization believes that media profoundly
affects children. The mission of the Coalition for Quality Children's
Media is 1) to teach children critical viewing skills and enable
them to make their own good media choices; and 2) to increase
the visibility and availability of quality children's programs.
Programs include KIDS FIRST!®, which evaluates and
rates children's films, videos, DVDs, audio recordings, software,
and television. Information is available at www.cqcm.org/kidsfirst/index.shtml
We Were Like Custer
Installation/Exhibition by Charlene Teters
A member of the Spokane Nation, the artist, teacher, writer and
activist Charlene Teters mines mass culture to expose the deeply
ingrained dehumanization of Native peoples in mainstream media,
sports, and the U.S. military. With We Were Like Custer,
Teters examines the use by the military and new media of Native
references such as "into Indian country" to indicate
military enemy territory, and words such as "Apache,"
"Comanche," "Blackhawk," and "Tomahawk"
as names for instruments of war. The film In
Whose Honor? shows in conjunction with this exhibit.
Remembering Chief
Dan George
 Twenty-two
years after his passing, the Oscar-nominated Chief Dan George
remains the most beloved and admired of Native actors. His performances
in Little Big Man,
The Outlaw Josie Wales, and Centennial were groundbreaking-some
of the first humane portraits of indigenous people on the big
screen. This tribute includes two programs: the biographical documentary
Today Is a Good
Day and a very special outdoor screening of the classic
Little Big Man.
Poster Artist
VICTOR MASAYESVA, JR., is an independent producer, director,
and photographer who has been at the forefront of experimental
arts in the Native American community. He is the director of Imagining
Indians, the first feature-length film produced and directed
by a Native American, and has served as artist-in-residence at
the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art,
and the Walker Art Center. His photography is represented locally
by the Andrew Smith Gallery. He was featured filmmaker at the
2001 Native Cinema Showcase.
Thank You!
W. Richard West, Director, National Museum of the American Indian
(NMAI), Helen Scheirbeck, Assistant Director for Public Programs,
NMAI; John Haworth, Director of George Gustav Heye Center, NMAI;
Elizabeth Duggal, Director, External Affairs and Development,
NMAI; Thomas Sweeney, Director, Public Affairs, NMAI; Edison Wato,
Jr., Manager, Member Services, NMAI; Diane Reyna, IAIA; Chuck
Dailey, IAIA Museum; Nik Cecere and Pancho Epstein, Santa Fe New
Mexican; Glen Dickerson, Catherine Long, Catherine Allen; Ranny
Levy, Coalition for Quality Children's Media; Steven Ashley and
Ellen Dockser, WGBH; Bird Runningwater, Sundance Native Forum;
Eric Jordan, The Film Works; John Daw, Lola Moonfrog, The Pond
Foundation; Ann Marron, Julia Felix, Sarah Shubert, CCA Cinematheque;
Andrew Smith, Victor Masayesva, Jr., The Andrew Smith Gallery;
Mike Mashon, The Library of Congress; Bill Hill, Hilltop Productions;
Jon Bowman, Clay Peres, The Santa Fe Film Festival; Paramount
Pictures, Hollywood Classics, Charlene Teters, Chris Jonas, Zoe
Dwyer, Elisa Keir, Nancy Gaffner, Ross Krantz, Professional Business
Assistants, La Fonda Hotel. Graphic Design by Mission Control.
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Image credit:
Heart of Light - courtesy of Odd-Steinar Tøllefsen;
Chief Dan George
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