December 2006
 Documentary
filmmaker Rachael Nez (Navajo) directed
The Border Crossed Us as her master's thesis film for Native
Voices: the Center for Indigenous Media at University of Washington
in Seattle. The film screened at the 2005 Women of Color Film
& Video Festival at the University of California—Santa
Cruz, and other festivals. Since 2004, Nez has taught video workshops
at the youth media organization Native Lens in Seattle, and instructed
a seminar in 2004 on technology and language preservation at the
Indigenous Language Institute in Seattle. She was raised in Ganado,
Arizona, and received a BA in Media Arts from the University of
Arizona.
Screened by NMAI
Image credit: Rachel
Nez - photograph by James Kinistino
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