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August 2008
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director Reaghan Tarbell (Mohawk) comes
from the Kahnawake reserve just outside Montreal. In 2007 she
was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts grant and funding from
Native American Public Telecommunication's Public Television Program
Fund for the production of Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn
and Back, a documentary that traces the connections of her
family from their Kahnawake community in Quebec to the Brooklyn
neighborhood where Mohawk iron workers and their families have
lived. In 2006, on the basis of this script, Tarbell was selected
to participate in Tribeca All-Access. She began her work as a
filmmaker on projects directed by Paul Rickard of Mushkeg Media:
Finding My Talk: A Journey into Aboriginal Languages and
Aboriginal Architecture, Living Architecture. Tarbell is
a staff Program Assistant in the National Museum of the American
Indian's Film and Video Center and lives in Brooklyn, not far
from the neighborhood of Little Caughnawaga.
"I never saw myself as a filmmaker, still don't…but
regardless of how you see yourself…I think if you're destined
to tell a story it will find you somehow. Telling the story about
my family and my community was at the same time, the most challenging
and most rewarding time of my life."
Screened by NMAI
Image credit:
Reaghan Tarbell - photograph by Tim Warner
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