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"Backbone of the World"

More than 60 Native film, video, radio and electronic media producers were present to introduce outstanding new productions from the Americas and Hawai'i at the 1997 festival.

Selectors

Paul Apodaca, Juanita Espinosa, Alberto Muenala, and Shelley Niro.

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

The Festival and Native Networks Symposium have been made possible by support from The Ford Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; the Mexican Cultural Institute and the Mexican Government Tourism Office; the Canadian Consulate General and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade; NAPT Native American Public Telecommunications; and Thirteen/WNET.

Acknowledgements

The Festival organizers wish to thank the following for their assistance: Frank Blythe, Native American Public Telecommunications; Rosemary Richmond, Joanna Osburn Bigfeather, and Jim Cyrus, American Indian Community House; Kenneth Mueller and Chris Catanese, Museum of Television & Radio; Kathy Brew, Thundergulch; Patricia Boero, Sundance Institute; Juan Garcia de Oteyza and Bernice Gonzalez de Leon, Mexican Cultural Institute; Lilie Zendel, Canadian Consulate General; Ward Chamberlain and Anne Gorfinkel, Thirteen! WNET; Lisa Heller and Doug Chang, P.O.V.; Samori Marksman and Valerie van Islen, WBAI-FM; Marrie Mumford, Banff Center for the Arts; Lillian J imenez, independent media con-sultant; Scott Rosenfeldt, Shadowcatcher Productions; Randy Ross, independent media consultant; Faye Ginsburg, Program in Culture and Media, New York University; Catherine Benamou, Duke University; Guillermo Monteforte, CVI Centro de Video Indfgena, Oaxaca; Claudia Hernandez, The New Museum; Karen Ranucci, IMRE; Geoffrey Gilmore, Sundance Film Festival; Pam Roberts, Rattlesnake Productions; R.H. Red Owl, Long Island University; Christine Halvorsen, Amanaka'a; Melissa Tardiff, Indigo Information Designers; the NMAI depart-ments whose assistance has been essential to this event; Carole Lazio, FVC Archival Consultant; John Humphrey, Volunteer Extraordinaire; and the many others who have made this event possible.

Calendar - PDF

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1997 Festival Calendar PDF (374 KB)

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Image credit: Backbone of the World - Courtesy Pam Roberts

Selectors

Titles

Acknowledgments

Calendar - PDF

Paul Apodaca

Juanita Espinosa

Annie Frazier Henry

Carol Geddes

Leah Kihara

Patricio Luna

Alberto Muenala

Shelley Niro

Jeanette Paillán
Loretta Todd


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