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April 2006
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Carlos Peinado (Mandan/Hidatsa) is the director of
Waterbuster, a personal history and documentary examination
of the displacement of seven communities of the Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara
Nation as a result of the Garrison Dam Project. Waterbuster,
Peinado's first feature-length documentary, will premiere at the
2006 Tribeca Film Festival, co-presented by NMAI At The Movies.
In 2004, Peinado was selected for Tribeca All Access Connects,
a professional development program for emerging filmmakers. He
is one of three alumni of TAA Connects 2004 who will screen their
work in the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. Peinado has worked as
the creative director of Native Peoples Magazine and as
the public relations coordinator of the American Indian Community
House in New York City. He has also acted in the TNT television
movies Broken Chain and Crazy Horse. Peinado attended
Phillips Exeter Academy. He received a BA in filmmaking and cultural
anthropology from Dartmouth College, and produced a thesis documentary
Harry's House about the Hopi-Navajo land dispute. He was
raised in Phoenix, Arizona and on the Fort Berthold Reservation
in North Dakota. Peinado lives in Quechee, Vermont.
"Waterbuster weaves together the voices of those
who left the reservation and those who stayed, as well as the
voices of my grandmother's generation and my own. It doesn't attempt
to provide simple answers to the complex questions that brought
me to this project, but rather, it suggests that identity, history
and our complex relationship to the land on which we stand is
open-ended, plagued by ghosts and by injustice, and full also
of the possibility of renewal."
Screened by NMAI
Image credits:
J. Carlos Peinado - courtesy of the filmmaker
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