What's New
The first Talking Stick Film Festival, featuring works
by Native directors, is being held June 21 - 26, 2008, in Santa
Fe, New Mexico. The submission deadline is April 24, 2008. The
festival's press release gives this description: "We will
be holding to the task of storytelling and its meaning in Native
History and oration. Digital workshops, equipment innovations
showcases, financing and agent workshops as well as over 100
film showings and of course, a few great parties."
Works to be screened include dramatic features, full-length
documentaries, short works, and animations. This is a juried
festival, with awards in each category. Travel expenses will
be covered for each filmmaker whose work is selected for the
juried competition. A fee is charged for submission.
Filmmakers are invited to call anytime to talk about deadlines,
submission information, workshops, and more. Contact the festival
director, Karen Redhawk Dallett, at
435-503-0215 (mobile) or
505-792-2900 (office) or go to www.seedgraduateinstitute.org.
4/8/08
Festival Entry Deadlines, April - May
Some festivals may require an entry fee.
Entry deadline: April 24, 2008 ($35 for features; $25 for
short works)
Festival: June 21 - 26, 2008
Talking Stick Film Festival
Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.seedgraduateinstitute.org
or call 435-503-0215 (mobile) or 505-792-2900 (office)
Entry deadline: May 10, 2008
Festival: Fall 2008
All Roads Film Festival
Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, CA and Santa Fe, NM
www.nationalgeographic.com/allroads
Entry deadline: May 16, 2008
Festival: September 11 - 20, 2008
International Film and Video Festival of Indigenous Peoples
CLACPI/Coord. Latinoamericana de Cine y Comunicación
de los Pueblos Indígenas
La Paz and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
www.clacpi.org
(Spanish)
Call for entries: May 19 - August 15, 2008
Festival: March 26 - 29, 2009
Native American Film + Video Festival
National Museum of the American Indian
New York, New York
Upcoming Festivals, April - June
Festival: February 9 - May 17, 2008
Northwest Indigenous Film Festival
Seattle, Washington and touring
www.nativevue.org/blog/?p=751
Festival: April 4 - 16, 2008
Chicago Latino Film Festival
Chicago, Illinois
www.latinoculturalcenter.org
Festival: April 9 - 12, 2008
Encuentro Hispano Americano de Video Documental Independiente:
Contra el Silencio, Todas las Voces
Mexico City, D.F., Mexico
www.contraelsilencio.org
Festival: April 13 - 15, 2008
Native American Film Festival
Keene, New Hampshire
www.lakotafriends.org
Festival: April 16 - 24, 2008
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival
Austin, Texas
www.cinelasamericas.org
Festival: April 17 - 19, 2008
Cowichan International Aboriginal Film Festival
Duncan, British Columbia
http://aff.cowichan.net
Festival: April 17 - 27, 2008
Hot Docs
Toronto, Ontario
www.hotdocs.ca
Festival: April 18 - 20, 2008
Global Green Indigenous Film Festival
Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.ntec.org
Festival: April 23 - May 4, 2008
Tribeca Film Festival
New York, NY
www.tribecafilmfestival.org
Festival: April 24 - 27, 2008
Augsburg College Native American Film Series
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The annual series presents "Native American Voices: Selections
from the 7th Annual Fargo International Film Festival"
and independently-curated "New Voices in Native Media."
For program information go to www.augsburg.edu/ais/filmseries/
Festival: April 24 - May 15, 2008
DerHumALC (Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos)
Santiago del Estero and Buenos Aires, Argentina
www.derhumalc.org.ar
Festival: May 29 - June 2, 2008
Wairoa Maori Film Festival
Auckland, Wellington and Taumarunui, Aotearoa (New Zealand)
www.manawairoa.com
Festival: June 4 - 7, 2008
Dreamspeakers Film Festival
Edmonton, Alberta
www.dreamspeakers.org
Opportunities
The Call for Entries for the 2008 Festival Internacional
de Cine y Video de los Pueblos Indígenas/International
Indigenous Film and Video Festival has been issued by the
indigenous peoples of Bolivia. The Festival will be held in
Bolivia in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, September 11 - 13, and in
La Paz, September 14 - 20. The deadline for entries for the
festival is May 16, 2008.
This biennial festival, which screens about 100 works from
throughout the Americas, is the major showcase in the world
for Latin American indigenous production. It is the unique festival
in Latin America organized and presented by indigenous media
makers and organizations, and is hosted in different countries.
Its central organizing unit is the international indigenous
media makers membership organization, CLACPI (Coordinadora Latinoamericana
de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas).
This will be CLACPI's 9th festival. The 8th festival was held
in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2006; the 7th festival was in Santiago,
Chile, in 2004.
For more information and on-line registration (in Spanish)
go to www.plandecomunicacionindigena.org
or www.clacpi.org.
English-speakers with questions about submitting works to the
festival can contact Amalia Cordova, Coordinator of the Latin
American Program of the NMAI Film and Video Center at cordovaa@si.edu.
The Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival is seeking
a Festival Manager and year-round public programs presenter
to work full-time, with benefits, and to start ASAP. The festival,
presented annually in New York by the American Museum of Natural
History, is a premiere festival for international documentary
film (for more information go to www.amnh.org/programs).
To apply, e-mail a cover letter and resume to Elaine Charnov,
Director, Public Programs/Artistic Director, Margaret Mead Film
& Video Festival, American Museum of Natural History, 79th
and Central Park West, New York 10024. Please send electronically
to charnov@amnh.org.
At the Festivals and Forums
Awards and Native Works Selected
A - B - C
- D - E - F
- H - I - M
- N - O - P
- R - S - T
- V - W
For a list of individual awards and honors enter
here.
- Thanks to Daniel Grignon for contributing numerous updates
to this section.
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In New York, the 15th African Diaspora Film Festival
was held November 23 - December 9, 2007. Among the approximately
100 works screened were several with indigenous themes, including
the US premiere of Gene Boy Came Home (director: Alanis
Obomsawin), a profile of a Wabanaki man and his struggle
against the trauma of military service in the Vietnam War. Two
from Australia included The Tracker (director: Rolf de
Heer), a complex thriller starring David Gulpilil as a professional
tracker leading police as they pursue a wanted man and a documentary
about the actor by Aboriginal director Darlene Johnson, Gulpilil:
One Red Blood. For more information go to www.nyadff.org/
12/09/07
The 2nd annual Alaska Native Revolution Film Festival
was held in Fairbanks on October 26 - 27, 2007, at the University
of Alaska Fairbanks, hosted by Native Movement and Alaska Community
Action on Toxics. Films selected from Canada, New Zealand, and
the US included:
For more information go to www.nativemovement.org/alaska/filmfest.html
2/18/08
In 2007 the National Geographic All Roads Film Festival
took place September 27 - 30 in Los Angeles, October 4 -
October 7 in Washington, DC, and November 28 - December 3 as
part of the Santa Fe Film Festival. The films shown are about
indigenous and minority communities around the globe. The number
of films shown at the three sites varied, with an expanded program
in Santa Fe including "Nihí Dinék'egho Neidá:
We Walk as Diné" (a program of nine Navajo films
curated independently by Charmaine Jackson-John) and a retrospective
of works by Alanis Obomsawin.
Native American and indigenous directed features included:
International features and long documentaries included:
- Sonam…The Fortunate One (director: Ahsan Muzid)
- Super Amigos (director: Arturo Perez Torres)
- Dol (director: Hiner Saleem)
- Bolinao 52 (director: Duc Nguyen)
- Enemies of Happiness (director: Eva Mulvad)
Short works by indigenous directors included:
- Crocodile Dreaming (director: Darlene Johnson)
- Tavake (director: Paul Stoll)
- Taua (director: Tearepa Kahi)
- Land and Airwaves (directors: Patrick Boivin and
Alland Flamand. Produced by Wapikoni Mobile)
- 133 Skyway (director: Randy
Redroad)
- Nana (director: Warwick
Thornton)
- Gene Boy Came Back Home (director: Alanis
Obomsawin)
The special program "Nihí Dinék'egho Neidá:
We Walk as Diné" included works by Navajo directors
Klee Benally, Ramona
Emerson, Sydney Freeland, Mike Goodman, Melissa A. Henry,
Bennie Klain, Darwyn Roanhorse
and Sunrise Tippeconnie.
Other events included an art market in Washington, DC; music
performances by Balkan Beat Box; panel discussions with the
All Roads Photography Fellows. Three All Roads films and filmmakers
won awards at the Santa Fe Film Festival. The All Roads Film
Project website includes not only Festival programs but new
features including a blog space with news and video blogs from
the festival events. For more information go to www.nationalgeographic.com/allroads.
12/27/07
The 32nd annual American Indian Film Festival was presented
November 7 - 15, 2007, in San Francisco, showcasing more than
90 films produced in American Indian and Canada First Nations
communities. The awards given were:
- Best Film: Imprint
(director: Michael Linn)
- Best Director: Sterlin
Harjo for Four
Sheets to the Wind
- Best Actor: Cody Lightning in Four
Sheets to the Wind
- Best Actress: Tonantzin Carmelo in Imprint
- Best Supporting Actor: Ernie Tsosie in Milepost
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- Best Supporting Actress: Carla-Rae Holland in Imprint
- Best Documentary Feature: Our Land, Our Life
(directors: George Gage and Beth Gage)
- Best Documentary Short: Dreammakers (director:
Susan Cardinal)
- Best Live Action Short: Seeking Bimaadiziiwin
(directors: Dave Clement and Kelly Saxberg)
- Best Animated Short: Raccoon
and Crawfish (director: Dale Rood)
- Best Music Video: What Are We Fighting For?
(Joanne Shenandoah) (directors: Eric Benda, Pearly Leung,
Joanne Shenandoah)
- Best Public Service: A Place Between: The Story of
an Adoption (director: Curtis Kaltenbaugh)
- Best Industrial: Seminole Tribe of Florida - 50th
Anniversary (director: Danny Jumper)
For the complete program and descriptions go to www.aifisf.com.
2/18/08
The 5th annual American Indian Film Festival at Bellevue
Community College took place November 15 - 16, 2007 near
Seattle. The festival opened each day with a ceremony led by
Jessy Lucas, followed by screenings of new Native films. On
the opening night, following a community potluck, the festival
presented "Honoring the Legacy of Phil Lucas," a retrospective
of works by the award-winning Choctaw director, who made more
than 100 films. Phil Lucas
founded this festival in 2003 and was a faculty member at the
college until his death in February, 2007. The next evening
featured a keynote address by John
Trudell, following the screening of Trudell
(director: Heather Rae). Other
works, presented by their directors, included The
Duck-In (director: Rachel
Naninaaq Edwardson), Half
of Anything (director: Jonathan
Tomhave), Finding Dawn (director: Christine Welsh),
and works by Native youth, produced by Longhouse Media and Native
Lens.
11/17/07
Each year the Augsburg College Native American Film Series
in Minneapolis presents four kinds of film events: "Documentaries
at Augsburg" focusing on current and historical issues
in Indian country, "New Voices in Native Media" honoring
youth and new filmmakers, "Native American Voices"
presenting the current winners from the Fargo Film Festival,
and special events with regional tribal communities. All events
are free and open to the public.
In the 2006-7 season the documentaries screened were:
- American Indian Homelands: Matters of Truth, Honor and
Dignity-Immemorial (director: Barry ZeVan)
- A Tattoo on My Heart: Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973
(directors: Charles Abourezk and Brett Lawlor)
- Maria Tallchief (director: Sandy
Osawa)
In April "New Voices" presented short works by directors
Mike Medicine Horse, Tory Mendoza, Amy Tallchief, Missy Whiteman,
and youth media groups New Voices and TVbyGirls; selections
from this programming traveled during the summer to tribal communities.
In May selections from "Native American Voices" in
the 7th Fargo Film Festival were screened. Special events included
an "Indigenous Environmental Film Series" in November
2006, "Indigenous Films and Media from South America,"
with indigenous filmmakers Caimi Waiásse and David H.
Palmer, in May and the Summer 2007 tribal touring program of
works from "New Voices."
12/27/07
Available Light Film Festival
March 4 - 9, 2008, Whitehorse, Yukon
www.yukonfilmsociety.com
4/8/08
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The 57th Berlin Film Festival, February 8 - 18, 2007,
included two films with indigenous directors. Tuli (director:
Aureaeus Solito) dramatically
explores experiences of coming of age in a remote tribal village
in the Philippines was in the Forum section. Eagle vs. Shark
(director: Taika Waititi),
a romantic comedy from New Zealand, was in the Generation section.
Manoomin, The Sacred Food (director: Jack Pettibone Riccobono),
a film on wild rice shot at White Earth Reservation, was included
in the thematic program Eat, Drink, See Movies: Celebrating
Culinary Cinema. In the Generation section Hawaikii
(director: Mike Jonathan)
tells the story of a young Maori girl and her father. For more
information go to www.berlinale.de/en/.
12/27/07
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The 10th Cine Las Americas International
Film Festival, held in Austin, Texas, April 19 - 26, 2007
screened more than 65 films. The festival showcases contemporary
films from throughout the Americas, by or about Latino and indigenous
peoples, and features a youth filmmaker program Emergencia.
Native-directed short films, documentary features, and new
theatrical releases included:
Other feature narrative and documentary films with indigenous
themes included:
- Tierra Roja (director: Ramiro Gómez)
Paraguay
- Cocalero
(director: Alejandro Landes)
Argentina, Bolivia, USA
- En el Hoyo (director: Juan Carlos Rulfo) Mexico
- ?Quién Mató a la Llamita Blanca?
(director: Rodrigo Bellott) Bolivia
- Hartos Evos Aqui Hay: Los Cocoleros del Chapare
(director: Hector Ulloque Franco, Manuel Ruiz Montealegre,
Fernando Lopez Escriva) Colombia
- ?Qué Pasa Después de la Coca?
(director: Roberto Lanza) Bolivia
- The Beloved Community (director: Pamela Calvert)
USA, Canada
The winner of the Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature
was Tierra Roja, which follows the stories of four Guaraní
families in Paraguay. Among the festival jurors were director
Blackhorse Lowe (Navajo) and
Sundance Institute's N. Bird Runningwater (Cheyenne).
For more information, go to www.cinelasamericas.org.
7/17/07
The Festival Petrobras de Cinema Brasileiro de New York, now
called CineFest Petrobras Brasil, was presented in New
York August 6 - 12, and included Maksuara: Twilight of the
Gods (diretor: Neville D'Almeida) an experimental documentary
focused on the noted Brazilian indigenous leader Maksuara.
11/19/07
Cinema Chile, presented in New York, November 9 - 15,
2007, included Üxuf Xipay/El Despojo/The Plunder
(director: Dauno Tõtoro), a documentary examining the
resistance of the Mapuches to exploitation of their lands in
the south of Chile by powerful ranchers and corporations.
11/17/07
The Cowichan Aboriginal Film Festival was held April
26-28, 2007 in Duncan, British Columbia. The festival opened
with a Coast Salish Gala Reception, with performances by Butch
Dick & the Unity Drummers, Ray Peter & the Tzinqua Dancers,
the Little Raven Dancers, the Black Owl Singers, and M’Girls
Unplugged. Nathaniel Arcand and Dakota House gave two joint
workshops, one on working in film and television, the other
on acting and improvisation. 23 workshops were given on all
aspects of working in the film industry. Twelve short films
were screened from Brazil, Canada, and the United States. Participants
included Janet Rogers, director of A Rightful Place and
Dorothy Christian, director of A Spiritual Land Claim.
Other films screened included Conversion,
directed by Nanobah Becker;
Wabak, directed by Kevin Papatie and Gilles Penosway;
and Xina Bena/A New Era, directed by Zezinho Yube. For
more information, please go to aff.cowichan.net.
9/13/07
D
The twenty-first annual DC International Film Festival
in Washington took place April 19-29, 2007. 70 feature-length
films and 6 short films were screened. The following films by
indigenous directors or with indigenous content were screened:
Eagle vs. Shark, directed by Taika
Waititi; Naming
Number Two, directed by Toa
Fraser; Samoan Wedding, directed by Chris Graham;
and Ten Canoes, directed by Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr.
9/4/06
In 2007 the Argentinian human rights film festival DerHumAlc
was held May 9 - 16 in Buenos Aires and May 29 - 30 in Santiago
del Estero. Among this year's award-winning films was Meu
Primero Contacto/My First Contact (directors: Mari Correa
and Kumare Txicao) which
received Special Mention in the Feature Film category.
Other films included with indigenous stories were Yaipota
Ñande Igüi/Queremos nuestra tierra (director:
Lorena Riposati), concerned with the struggle of a Guarani community
in Argentina against the occupation of their lands by a multinational
corporation, and En la senda de la escuela (director:
Lucas Mouzas) about the development of a school in a Chatin
village in the state of Oaxaca. Other works screened included
Mal de Ojo TV, grassroots news documentaries of the 2006
strike in Oaxaca and recent resistance to the state's government.
Other works on indigenous themes were Akulliku (directors:
G. Garcia and S. Sandúa) and La zafra (director:
Blanca E. Alvarez Pulido). For more information go to www.derhumalc.org.ar/
12/01/07
Dreamspeakers Film Festival, held June 4-9, 2007, in
Edmonton, Alberta, presented documentaries and feature films
from Canada, New Zealand, and the United States; a two-day film
trade and career fair; and a Youth Day with screenings and workshops.
On Opening Night, a welcome reception was followed by a screening
of The Waimate Conspiracy and the festival closed with
an Awards Night. Awards given were:
Other works screened include the feature film Rain in the
Mountains, directed by Joel Metlen and Christine Sullivan.
Short works screened included Aydaygooay,
directed by Mary Code; Buffalo Spirit, directed by Marie
Burke; and Maq
and the Spirit of the Woods, directed by Phyllis Grant.
Documentaries included Flight from Darkness, directed
by Trevor Grant; The Spirit of Sacajawea, directed by
Alyson Young; and Waban-Aki, directed by Alanis
Obomsawin.
For more information go to www.dreamspeakers.org.
9/5/07
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On March 15 - 25, 2006, the Encuentro Hispanoamericano de
Video Documental Independiente: Contra El Silencio Todas las
Voces documentary festival was held in Mexico. The programs
included "Visions and Voices of Indigenous America,"
a documentary showcase coordinated by CLACPI/Consejo Latinoamericano
de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas.
The indigenous showcase, presented March 15 - 18 in Mexico
City at the Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares, screened:
- Los Angeles
de la Tierra (director: Patricio
Luna, Bolivia)
- Aquí Así Nos Curamos (director: José
Luís Matías Alonso, Mexico)
- Ayllus en Paz (directors: Humbero Claros and Ariel
Yañez, Bolivia)
- Buscando el Azul (director: Fernando Valdivia Gómez,
Peru)
- Cuando la
Justicia se hace Pueblo (director: Carlos
Efraín Pérez Rojas, Mexico)
- De los Niños Ikpeng para el Mundo (directors:
Kumaré Txicao,
Karané Txicao,
and Natuyu Txicao, Brazil)
- Día 2 (director:
Dante Cerano Bautista,
Mexico)
- Dulce Convivencia (director: Filoteo Gómez
Martínez, Mexico)
- Historias
Verdaderas (Ojo de Agua Comunicación, Mexico)
- El Misterio de la Palmera (director: Heladio Uraeza,
Bolivia)
- Moyngo, el Sueño de Maragareum (directors:
Kumaré Txicao
and Natuyu Txicao, Brazil)
- Una Muerte en Sión (director: Adam Goldstein,
United States/Peru)
- Río de la Vida (Esse Ejja directors, Bolivia)
- Susurros de Muerte (director: Reynaldo Yujra, Bolivia)
- Servir el Pueblo (director: Hermengildo Rojas Ramírez,
Mexico)
- Soy Defensor de la Selva (director: Heriberto Gualinga
Montalvo, Ecuador)
- Teco, el Niño Mojeño (director: Rubén
Machado Navía, Bolivia)
- La Tierra, Nuestra Esperanza (directors: Violeta
Chávez and Bertha Rodríguez, Mexico)
- Las Voces del Uarhi Iurixe (director: Raúl
Máximo Cortés, Mexico)
For more information, go to www.contraelsilencio.org.
4/10/06
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
March 11 - 22, 2008, Washington, D.C.
www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org
4/8/08
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Fargo Film Festival
March 5 - 8, 2008, Fargo, North Dakota'
www.fargofilmfestival.com
Includes "Native American Voices" program and awards.
4/8/08
Festival of Native Film & Culture
Agua Caliente Cultural Museum
(formerly the Palm Springs Native American Film Festival and
Cultural Weekend)
March 5 - 9, 2008, Palm Springs, California
www.accmuseum.org/page49.html
4/8/08
First Americans in the Arts (FAITA) held its 15th annual
Awards Presentations with Wes Studi serving as Master of Ceremonies
and Host for the second year in a row. FAITA is a non-profit
organization created to recognize, honor and promote American
Indian participation in the entertainment industry. The annual
awards event is the principle fundraiser for scholarships awarded
to students pursuing careers in film, television, theater, and
music.
- Outstanding Performance by an Actor: Rudy Youngblood
in Apocalypto
- Outstanding Performance by an Actress (Theatre):
Thirza Defoe in Stoneheart by playwright Diane Glancy
and Native Voices
- Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Film (Supporting):
Mizuo Peck in Night at the Museum
- Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Film (Supporting):
Morris Birdyellowhead in Apocalypto
- Outstanding Achievement in Traditional Music: Mary
Youngblood for Dancing With the Wind
- Outstanding Achievement in Writing: Rhiana Yazzie
for Navajo Nation
- Outstanding Achievement in Music (Contemporary):
Arigon Starr for her CD Red Road
- Outstanding Achievement (Technical): Tricia Wood
for Casting
- Humanitarian Award: Sundance Institute—Bird
Runningwater accepting
- Will Sampson Memorial Award: Native Star Dance Team
of New Mexico
- Trustee Award: Icon Pictures, Mel Gibson for Apocalypto
- Legacy Award: Te Ata (Born Mary Thompson)—Accepted
by Lt. Govenor Jefferson Keel of the Chickasaw Nation
- Miss Indian World: Violet John
7/17/07
The 2007 First Peoples' Festival/Presence Authoctone,
June 10 - 21, was held in various locations in Montreal. The
film and video programs are part of the festival, which is organized
by the Land InSights Society as a 9-day celebration of art,
film, music, the written word, storytelling, and dance from
the First Nations of Canada and other indigenous peoples from
the Americas. The Festival always includes events on June 21,
Canada's National Aboriginal Day. Opening Night screened the
romantic and off-beat comedy from New Zealand, Eagle vs.
Shark (director: Taika Waititi)
and more than forty five films were screened. Awards were given:
Creation Category
- Teueikan Grand Prize: William. Director: Eron Sheean
- Teueikan Second Prize: Tuli. Director: Aurelio
Solito
Community Category
- Rigoberta Menchu Grand Prize: Pirinop, My First Contact.
Directors: Mari Corrêa and Karané Txicao
- Rigoberta Menchu Second Prize: Weaving
Worlds. Director: Bennie
Klain
Séquence Magazine Awards for Documentary
- Best Documentary: Riding with Ghosts. Directors:
Joe Hubers and James Starkey
- Special Honor: Kiviaq vs. Canada. Director: Zacharias
Kunuk
Best Short: Imbé Gikegu/The Scent of the Pequi
Fruit. Directors: Takuma Kuikuro and Marica Kuikuro
Best Animation: Popul
Vuh. Director: Ana María
Pávez
Best Cinematography: Anna Howard for William
(director: Eron Sheean)
Main Film Youth Award: Kevin Papate and Gilles Penoway
for Wabak
The Festival awarded the Dr. Bernard Chagnan Assiniwi Prize
to athlete and leader Billy Two Rivers.
8/29/07
The First Vision Filmmakers Forum was held on April
27, 2007 at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque,
New Mexico. The forum was organized by Charmaine Jackson-John
(Navajo) of the New Mexico Film Office. The panel “Stories
from the Reel World: A Conversation with Industry Professionals”,
featured George Burdeau (Blackfeet), Chris
Eyre (Cheyenne/Arapaho), Gary
Farmer (Cayuga), Vangie Griego, Barbara Martinez-Jitner,
Laura Milliken (Ojibwe)
and Frank Zuniga. The panel “Getting Your Work Seen: Media
Networking” featured representatives from National Geographic’s
All Roads Film Project, Latino Public Broadcasting, ImagineNative
Film & Media Arts Festival, VTape, and Native American Public
Telecommunications. Other panels featured local film industry
representatives such as New Mexico Screen Actor’s Guild
Branch President Tom Schuch and New Mexico Film Office director
Lisa Strout. The day ended with short film screenings, including
Conversion, Moccasin
Flats, and Raven Tales, and a networking reception
with a musical performance by Los Jaraneros del Valle Norte.
8/24/07
Forumdoc.bh.2007, the 11th Festival do Filme Documentario
e Etnografico Forum de Antropologia, Cinema e Video, was held
November 23 - December 5, 2007, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais,
Brazil. The festival screens approximately 24 films in national
and international competition and showcases several curated
series and retrospectives. Included in this year's program were
two films with indigenous content Pirinop, My
First Contact directors: Maria Correa and Karané
Txicão) and Djuungguwan/Speaking to the Future
(director: Trevor Graham). Forumdoc.bh.2006 included a retrospective
of the ethnographic filmmaker Timothy Asch, including his extensive
project filming among the Yanomami of Venezuela in the 1970s.
For more information go to www.filmesdequintal.com.br/2007.
1/12/08
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The 27th Luis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival,
held October 18 - 28, 2007, in Honolulu, featured nearly 200
films. The Pacific Panorama Award was presented by Pacific Islanders
in Communication to Lahaine: Waves of Change (director:
Eddie Kumae), concerned with the story of the west Maui town
once a center of the sugar industry, and filmed over 8 years
as the industry closed down there. Indigenous works made up
"Pacific Islander Shorts:" Uso/Brother
and Rites of Courage, both directed by Miki Magasiva,
Hawaikii
(director: Mike Jonathan),
Taua/War Party and The Speaker,
both directed by Tearapa Katti, Tavake (director:
Paul Stoll) and, from Papua New Guinea, Hands Up! Your
Betel Nut or Your Life. A special initiative of the
festival screens programs on five Hawaiian islands, and "Pacific
Islander Shorts" were selected for screenings on Kaua'i
and Moloka'i. The jury for the Shorts Competition included Janu
Cassidy, co-founder of the Hawai'i Cultural Foundation and Pacifika:
New York Hawaiian Film Festival.
1/28/08
The Heard Museum Film Festival, held October 12 - 14,
2007, in Phoenix, Arizona, presented more than 40 films. Most
works were about the indigenous Americas, but the festival also
included films set in countries such as Bosnia, Morocco, South
Korea and South Africa.
Feature narrative films and long documentaries included:
For more information go to www.heardmuseum.org
12/04/07
Herland Film and Video Festival took place May 3-10,
2007, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The program “More than
Four Directions – Works by Aboriginal Women” took
place on May 6. The following films by Aboriginal women were
screened at the festival:
For more information, go to www.herlandfestival.com.
9/6/07
2007 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
took place March 21 - 30 in London and June 14 - 28 in New York.
Three films with indigenous themes were included: Cocalero
(director: Alejandro
Landes) about the election campaign of Evo Morales for the
Bolivian presidency; Everything's Cool (directors: Daniel
Gold and Judith Helfand) about global warming with scenes in
Inupiat communities in Alaska; and El Violin (director:
Francisco Vargas), a fiction about the impact of a military
campaign in rural Guerrero, Mexico, starring musician Don Angel
Tavira.
11/17/07
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The 8th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
was held October 17 - 21, 2007, in Toronto. The festival screened
nearly 100 films, held two pitch competitions, and presented
panels on acquisition, indigenous language in film [list topics].
Other original programs included a standing room only performance
by artist and media maker Kent
Monkman [and Gerald McMaster]. The festival award winners
are below.
- Best Dramatic Feature: Four
Sheets to the Wind. Director: Sterlin
Harjo
- Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award: Water Flowing
Together. Director: Gwendolen
Cates
- Obomsawin Documentary Award Honorable Mention: Miss
Navajo. Director: Billy
Luther
- Best Short Drama: Shooting Geronimo. Director:
Kent Monkman
- Short Drama Honorable Mention: Nana. Director:
Warwick Thornton
- Short Drama Honorable Mention: Taua/War Party.
Director: Tearepa Kahi
- Best Short Documentary: The Vanishing Trace.
Director: Keesic Douglas
- Documentary Honorable Mention: Territoire des Ondes/Land
and Airwaves. Director: Patrick Bolvin
- Best Indigenous Language Production: Nikamowin/Song.
Director: Kevin Lee Burton
- Best Canadian Short Drama: The Colony. Director:
Jeff Barnaby
- Best Experimental: Nikamowin/Song. Director:
Kevin Lee Burton
- Experimental Honorable Mention: 4-Wheel War Pony.
Director: Dustinn Craig
- Best Music Video: Punassion (Marco Bentz,
Carl Gregoire, Francis Gregoire, Spencer St-Onge, John-Cristophe
Gabriel, James Chescappin)
- Music Video Honorable Mention: Maori Boy.
Director: Michael Jonathan
- Best New Media: An Indian Act: Shooting the Indian
Act. Director: Arthur Pechawis
- Best Radio-Arts and Entertainment: Red Moon.
Producer: Dawn Dumont
- Radio-Arts and Entertainment Honorable Mention: The
Native Radio Theatre Project: The Best Way to Grow Pumpkins.
Writer: Rhiana Yazzie
- Best Radio-Documentary, Current Affairs, Talk Show: Good
Medicine Radio Show: Tobacco Show. Producers: Rita
Chretien and Wanbdi Wakita
- Radio-Documentary, Current Affairs, Talk Show Honorable
Mention: Road to Reclamation. Producer: Wilma Green
- Cynthia Lickers Sage Award for Emerging Talent: Fighter.
Director: Erica
- Sage Emerging Talent Award Honorable Mention: Fifteen.
Directors: Cody Cayou and Travis Tom
- Documentary Pitch Prize: Gail
Maurice for Beneath City Streets (working
title)
- Drama Pitch Prize: Jeff
Barnaby for Blood Quantum (working title)
- IFC Mentorship Program: Shane Belcourt
For more information go to www.imaginenative.org.
1/06/08
The 4th annual Indigenous Film & Arts Festival was
held October 8 - 14, 2007, in Denver, organized by the International
Institute for Indigeous Resource Management and presented with
partners including the University of Denver, the Native Student
Alliance, Native American Law Student Association, and Center
for Multicultural Excellence.
Feature films included:
Short works included:
- Newen (director:
Jennifer Aguilar Silva)
- Green Bush
(director: Warwick Thornton)
- Kumeyaay: Survival in the Weave (director:
Edward Kramer)
- Carriers of Culture (director: R.J. Joseph)
- Short works presented by filmmakers from the Native youth
media organizations Longhouse Media and Wapikoni
Mobile
The festival featured exhibitions by artists Bunky Echohawk
and Natasha Keating and musical performances by jazz singer
Andrea Menard, and musical and dance groups Ritmos di mi Peru,
Comparza Morelos en Denver, and Halau Hula O Na Mauna Pohaku.
For more information go to www.iiirm.org/Events/
2/18/08
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The 2007 Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, held
November 9 - 11, 2007, at the American Museum of Natural History
in New York, featured approximately 30 films concerned with
diverse cultures and indigenous life around the world. This
festival was founded in 1977 to celebrate the 75th birthday
of the eminent anthropologist. Works in the program illuminated
themes of music in contemporary cultures and, to complement
a current exhibition, various films concerned with water, community
and the environment. Two documentaries located in indigenous
communities were Nömadak Tx (director: Raul de la
Fuente) follows two Basque musicians who visit with musicians
in a number of other autonomous communities in the world and
Grito de Piedra/Scream of the Stones (director: Ton van
Zantvoort) looking at the relationships to mining and tourism
by in an indigenous community in Peru.
11/19/07
The 2007 Maui Film Festival took place June 13-17, in
Kahului, Hawai’i. Films by indigenous directors from the
Pacific or with indigenous content included Eagle vs. Shark,
directed by Taika Waititi;
Na Kamalei: The Men of
Hula, directed by Lisette
Flanary; and Hawaiian Waterfall Prayer, directed
by John Zak. For more information, please go to www.mauifilmfestival.com.
9/6/07
The Melbourne International Film Festival took place
July 25-August 12, 2007, in Melbourne, Australia. This festival
screened works from 50 countries. Films by and/or about indigenous
people were screened from Australia, Bolivia, Canada, and New
Zealand. 16 shorts with indigenous content were screened, including
Crocodile Dreaming, directed by Darlene Johnson; The
Fighting Cholitas, directed by Mariam Jobrani; Moon Man,
directed by Luke Jurevicious and Toby Quarmby; Nanna,
directed by Warwick Thornton,
and Run, directed by Mark Albiston. Features included
Eagle vs. Shark, directed by Taika
Waititi; The
Journals of Knud Rasmussen, directed by Zacharias
Kunuk and Norman Cohn;
September, directed by Peter Carstairs; and The Waimate
Conspiracy, directed by Stefen Lewis. Eagle vs. Shark
was voted one of the Top 10 Drama Features in the festival’s
audience poll. For more information, please go to www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au.
9/7/07
Message Sticks Film Festival held May 4 - 6, 2007, at
the Sydney Opera House, presented Australian and world indigenous
documentaries and short fictions. Curated by Rachel Perkins
and Darren Dale, the festival was produced in association with
Indigenous Screens Australia and the Indigenous Unit of the
Australian Film Commission. This year there were 21 world premiere
films showcasing the latest in indigenous drama, comedy, documentary
and shorts plus the Sydney premiere of Crocodile Dreaming
starring Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil. Actress Tamara
Podemski (Saulteaux) attended to introduce, Four
Sheets to the Wind (director: Sterlin
Harjo) for which she won the Special Jury Award for Best
Actress at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival..
For more information: www.sydneyoperahouse.com/sections
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whats_on/boxoffice/event_details.asp?EventID=2227&sm=1&ss=1
7/17/07
The Mill Valley Film Festival was held October 4 - 14,
2007, in Mill Valley, California. One of the features screened
was Native produced, directed and acted, Four
Sheets to the Wind (director: Sterlin
Harjo). Two other films with indigenous themes and participants
were Kiviuq (director: John
Houston), and Luna: Spirit of the Whale (director:
Don McBrearty).
11/17/07
The 5th Morelia International Film Festival/Festival
Internacional de Cine de Morelia, October 5 - 14, 2007, presented
works in state, national, and international competition; special
screenings; documentaries; panels and other events-filling the
streets and theaters of the historic downtown of Morelia, in
the state of Michoacán, Mexico. A highlight this year
was the festival's inaugural First Nations Forum, a 3-day international
screening program and panel discussions.
Festival award winners included two works with indigenous subjects:
- Best Short from Michoacán: Axuni Atari/Cazador
de venados/ (director: Raul Maximo Cortes (P'urhepecha))
- Special Mention for Documentary: La frontera
infinita (director: Juan Manuel Sepulvéda Martínez)
Other works in competition by indigenous directors were:
Other works in competition with Native stories and locations
were:
- Camino a una massacre/A Massacre Foretold
(director: Nick Higgins) Screening included Q&A with
members of the Tzotzil organization, Las Abejas: José
Alfredo Jiménez, Javier Ruiz Perez and Pablo Romo.
- Cochichi (directors: Laura Amelia Guzmán
and Israel Cárdenas)
- El camino Mayo con la otra campana (director:
Nicolas Défossé)
The inaugural First Nations Forum built on programs
and discussions organized during previous Morelia Film Festivals
that focused on indigenous works and filmmakers from the state
of Michoacán, from Mexico, and from the United States.
This year's far-reaching programming was developed by UNESCO's
cultural officer Frederic Vacheron to include both indigenous
American and international productions from UNESCO's ICT4ID
program. Thirty works were screened from Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador,
Mexico, Peru, the United States and Gabon.
In addition to Vacheron, other participants in the two panel
discussions and screenings were Yolanda
Cruz (Chatin), Juan José
García (Zapotec), José
Alfredo Jimenez (Tzotzil), Damian
Lopez (Zapotec), José
Luis Matias (Nahua), Raul Maximo Cortes (P'urhepecha), Pedro
Daniel López (Tzotzil), Pavel
Rodriguez (P'urhepecha), Hector Sandoval (Driki), and Amalia
Córdova, program manager of the NMAI Film and Video Center's
Latin American Program.
For more information go to www.moreliafilmfest.com.
1/07/08
The 2007 Mount Shasta International Film Festival, held
October 12 - 14 in Mount Shasta, California, included two films
with indigenous themes: Nā
Kamalei: The Men of Hula (director: Lisette
Flanary), a documentary about master Robert Cazimero's hula
school for men and Ten Canoes (directors: Rold de Heer
and Peter Djigirr), a feature from Australia with an all-Aboriginal
cast that honors traditional Aboriginal story structure.
11/17/07
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On April 13-15, 2007, the Friends of the Oglala Lakota and
Keene State College Film Society presented the Native American
Film Festival in Keene, New Hampshire. Opening Night featured
a lecture by Penobscot leader Barry Dana, and a screening of
NMAI’s A Thousand
Roads, directed by Chris
Eyre. Among the other works screened were: Aboriginal
Architecture, Living Architecture, directed by Paul
Rickard; Expiration Date, directed by Rick Stevenson;
One More River, directed by Tracey
Deer and Neil Diamond
and Pulling Together, directed by James
Fortier. During the festival, Barry Dana demonstrated paddle
carving and traditional uses of birch bark, and there was also
basket making demonstration and basket sales. For more information,
please go to www.lakotafriends.org.
9/9/07
The Native Experience Film Festival is took place on
January 19, 2008, at the Swinomish Youth Center in La Conner,
Washington, presented by the Skagit County Historical Museum.
Screenings included the feature film Expiration Date (director:
Rick Stevenson) and short works produced by the youth media
organization Longhouse Media/Native Lens. Featured guests include
the filmmakers and Swil Kanim, Robert Guthrie, Gene Tagaban,
Tracey Rector, and Elaine
Miles.
2/18/08
The Native Spirit Festival was held June 4-9, 2007,
in London, England. The festival showed 37 films about indigenous
issues in the Americas, including A
Thousand Roads, directed by Chris
Eyre for National Museum of the American Indian. The films
represented the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,
Canada, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the
United States, and Venezuela. Directors in attendance included
Phillip Cox and Valeria Mapelman, directors of We Are the
Indians; Manuel Mayol, director of Switch Off; Silvia
Moreira, director of The Colombian Indigenous Educative Thought
Layout; and Antonio Rosa, director of Not A Game.
8/30/07
The 2007 Native Voice Film Festival and Media Awards
was presented November 11 - 14 in conjunction with the National
Congress of American Indians' annual meeting in Denver. The
annual festival is produced by Native Voice Media, Inc., the
South Dakota-based business that also publishes the news weekly
The Native Voice.
This year's festival showcased recent outstanding Native films
presented by the filmmakers and cast members, with panel discussions.
They were Indians
for Indians (director: Ava
Hamilton), Way of the Warrior (director: Patty
Loew), Four
Sheets to the Wind (director: Sterlin
Harjo), Waterbuster
(director: J. Carlos Peinado),
Our Land, Our Life (directors: George Gage and
Beth Gage) and Imprint
(director: Michael Linn). Ivan
Maki of Arizona PBS organized and produced the program "Native
Vision," two panel discussions on "Renewable Energy
in Indian Country" and on "Native Youth in America."
Actress Q'orianka Kilcher hosted the Native Voice Media Awards,
which included a keynote speech by Wilma Mankiller and traditional
and contemporary musical performances. The awards were:
- Media Leadership: Wilma Mankiller
- Education: Oglala Lakota College
- Mainstream Journalism: C-Span
- Empowerment: NIKE Native American Business
- Building Bridges through Media: HBO for Bury My
Heart at Wounded Knee
- Native Innovator: Chris
Eyre
For more information go to www.native-voice.com
2/22/08
The 2007 North American Native Film Festival: Indianer,
Inuit took place March 21-25, 2007, in Stuttgart, Germany.
The festival included a retrospective of 11 works featuring
Canadian actress Tantoo Cardinal.
Older selections in the retrospective included Black Robe,
directed by Bruce Beresford, and Where the Rivers Flow North,
directed by John Craven. New films with performances by Cardinal
included Indian Summer - The Oka Crisis, directed by
Gil Cardinal, and Unnatural
& Accidental, directed by Carl Bessai. 26 other films
screened in the festival, including the short music video La
Cumbia del Mole, directed by Lila
Downs and Johnny Moreno;
the feature Expiration Date, directed by Rick Stevenson;
and the documentary Trespassing,
directed by Carlos DeMenezes.
Festival participants gave several presentations at the Linden
Museum, including a hoop dance performance by Steve LaRance
and Nakotah LaRance. Joy Harjo
gave a musical performance at the city’s German-American
Center.
9/12/07
The National Screen Institute-Canada has announced that the
NSI Film Exchange, its film festival in Winnipeg, is
retiring after a successful 9-year run and will not be produced
in 2008. The popular SnowScreen evening that traditionally opened
the festival-where animated shorts are projected for the general
public on an outdoor movie screen made of snow-will continue
as a hallmark Winnipeg event, accompanied by an industry reception
one of several such receptions being organized regionally by
NSI. In 2008 NSI will expand its production and training programs
with two new Web-based initiatives.
One of NSI's highly successful programs has been the First
Stories initiative, led by Lisa Meeches, for emerging First
Nations directors to develop 5-minute documentaries. At NSI
Film Exchange, March 1 - 3, 2006, works from First Stories-Manitoba
premiered: Patrick
Ross (director: Ervin
Chartrand), Nganawendaanan
Nde'ing (I Keep Them in My Heart) (director Shannon
Letandre), My
Indian Name (director: Darryl
Nepinak), and Apples
and Indians (director: Lorne
Olsen). On February 28 - March 3, 2007, works from First
Stories-Saskatchewan premiered: Power Center of a Horse
(director Cory Generoux), Lifegivers: Honouring our Elders
and Children (director: Janine Windolph), O Mother
Where Art Thou? (director: Paul John Swiderski) and
ata-wîhcasin (It's Getting Easier) (director
Teresa Desnomi). For more information go to www.nsi-canada.ca.
1/12/08
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The 5th annual Oxford Brookes University Human Rights Film
Festival was held February 29 - March 9, 2008, in Oxford,
England. Films with indigenous themes included Indigenous
Peoples and the United Nations (director: Rebecca Somar),
Rabbit Proof Fence (director: Phillip Noyes),
and Abya Yala: This Land is Ours from Bolivia.
For more information go to www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/be/cendep/humanrights.
2/25/08
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Pacifika: New York Hawaiian Film Festival has announced
a hiatus because of the closing in 2007 of its parent organization
the Hawai'i Cultural Foundation. Founded in 1997, HCF was created
with the vision of building a vibrant community for Hawaiian
and Pacific Islander traditional and contemporary arts to thrive
in New York City. In 2003 the HCF founders, Janu Cassidy and
Michelle Akina, launched the film festival, which was presented
annually in New York until 2006. Among the filmmakers, musicians,
specialists, and leaders featured in these years were Hawaiian
filmmakers Eddie Kamae (the noted musician) and Myrna Kamae,
film archivist DeSoto Brown, kuma hula Robert Cazimero, kuma
hula Patrick Makuakane, Maori filmmaker Merita Mita, President
Te Maru of Tahiti and Congressman Eni Faleomavaega of American
Samoa.
In May 2007 Pacifika and the NMAI Film and Video Center produced
the first Pacifika Showcase: A Celebration of Pacific Islands
Films at the George Gustav Heye Center. The opening night
on May 10 featured Naming
Number Two (director: Toa
Fraser) with film great Ruby
Dee portraying the matriarch of a family of Fijians living
in New Zealand. A lively roundtable with Ruby Dee, Janu Cassidy
and Elizabeth Weatherford of NMAI followed. On May 12 nine additional
works were screened including Tama
Tu (director: Taika
Waititi), Hawaikii
(director: Mike Jonathan)
and Rolling
Down Like Pele (director: Laura
Margulies) and Polynesian
Power: Islanders in Pro Football (directors: Jeremy
Spear and Robert Pennington), with Margulies and Spear discussing
their works. For more information and to download the Pacifika
Showcase brochure, enter here.
These works and more were screened during May at the NMAI in
Washington, D.C. in daily and special weekend programs; for
program information enter
here.
Currently Pacifika is redefining its goals and objectives for
the future, including continuing its partnership with the National
Museum of the American Indian and other key cultural institutions
and organizing a traveling, global component of the festival.
For more information about HCF and Pacifika, go to http://hawaiiculturalfoundation.org.
1/07/08
The Provincetown Film Festival, held June 13 - 17, 2007,
in the seaside town of Provincetown, Massachusetts, screened
approximately 50 short and feature films. These included two
Native directed features, Miss
Navajo (director: Billy
Luther) and Four
Sheets to the Wind (director: Sterlin
Harjo). A short film, Sovereign Nation/Sovereign Neighbor
(director: Kendall Moore), about the Narragansett tribe of Rhode
Island, was also screened. For more information go to http://ptownfilmfest.bside.com.
2/25/08
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In Vancouver, British Columbia, the Reel 2 Real International
Film Festival for Youth took place February 23 - March 2,
2007. Short works by Native directors included Kaka'Win
(director Leah Nelson), Raven Tales: Bald Eagle (directors
Chris Kientz and Caleb Hystad),
and Wapos Bay: Journey Through Fear (director: Melanie
Jackson). A feature with Native themes shows was Luna:
The Way Home (director: Don McBrearty)
11/17/07
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Sámi Film Festival
March 15 - 19, 2008, Kautokeino, Norway
www.samifilmfestival.no
4/8/08
The 8th Santa Fe Film Festival, held November 28 - December
2, 2007, screened feature and short films from around the world
while recognizing the lifetime contributions of select film
artists. Native films appeared [in the competition,] as well
as in the programming of the National Geographic All Roads Film
Festival which has partnered with the Santa Fe Film Festival
since 2005 to present works by indigenous and minority filmmakers,
and to present an award for the best indigenous film at the
Festival.
Other Native films were screened in the festival's Governor's
Cup Awards program—A Return Home (director:
Ramona Emerson)—and
in the New Mexico Shorts programs—Reclaiming Our
Children (director: Marcella Ernest), Future Warrior
(director: Jeana Francis), Two Hearts (director:
Jason Asenap), Echoes from Our Ancestors (director:
Ed Breeding) and Sculpting Heart (director: Tobias
Katz).
The Santa Fe Film Festival awarded a Luminaria for lifetime
achievement to director Alanis
Obomsawin (Abenaki). Obomsawin has produced more than
30 documentaries, working under the auspices of the National
Film Board of Canada. In partnership with the All Roads Film
Festival, her festival tribute included the screening of Richard
Cardinal: Cry from the Diary of a Metis Child (1986)
and her two most recent works, Gene Boy Came Home
(2007) and Waban-aki (2006).
The festival's award for Best Indigenous Film went to
Miss Navajo
(director: Billy Luther).
The Best Short Film award went to the Aboriginal short drama
from Australia, Crocodile Dreaming (director:
Darlene Johnson). These works were part of the All Roads Film
Festival's Santa Fe program (a description of the 2007 All Roads
Film Festival can be found above).
For additional information go to http://santafefilmfestival.com.
1/07/08
The 5th Sin Fronteras Film Festival was held in Albuquerque,
New Mexico, April 20, 21, and 28, 2007. The festival screens
works about Latin American and indigenous peoples. The 2007
festival was coordinated by Yvette Morales, of the University
of New Mexico's Student Organization for Latin American Studies.
Screenings were held at Out Ch'Yonda, a studio space in the
Barelas neighborhood south of Downtown, and the Lobo Theater
near the university.
Works by indigenous directors included:
Other works with indigenous themes included Buffy Saint
Marie (director: Joan Prowse), Class Clown
(director: Roseanne Archibald), Hombres
y Mujeres Ikoots (director: Guillermo
Monteforte), Popol
Vuh (director: Ana
María Pavez), and Hapunda
(director: Dominique Jonard).
7/17/07
Each year the Skábmagovat Film Festival screens
new Sami works and invites the films from one other indigenous
people of the world, with a focus this year on African cinema.
Held January 25 - 30, 2007 in Inari, Finland, this year's festival
screened more than thirty films and short videos from Norway,
Finland, Sweden, Nigeria, South Africa, and the Sudan. The feature
films included Non Profit (director: Pauliina
Feodoroff), a Finnish feature on the encounter of researchers
go to an Arctic village to find out how little energy a community
needs if it has all the possible high technology available.
Saamelainea/Sápmelas (directors: Anastasia
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