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marzo 2006

Filmmaker Gary Rhine (1951-2006) named his production company Kifaru, Swahili for "Rhino", the nickname used for him by his many friends. At the time of his death in a small-plane accident, Rhine was in pre-production on a documentary about Vine Deloria, Jr. His works often drew attention to social issues in Indian Country and he collaborated with Native filmmakers in his own productions. The Peyote Road: Ancient Religion in Contemporary Crisis (1993) helped focus media attention on the sacramental nature of peyote, and helped lead to the 1994 amendment to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, which decriminalized the ceremonial use of the plant. Wiping the Tears of Seven Generations won the One Future Award at the 1992 Munich International Film Festival. In 2002, he programmed the series First People's TV for Link TV. Rhine founded the Dreamcatchers organization to offer training opportunities and funding to Native filmmakers. Rhine produced RezRobics for Couch Potato Skins, a healthy lifestyle video directed by Pam Belgarde, distributed free-of-charge to Native communities. Rhine was an executive co-producer of Peter Bratt's Follow Me Home, winner of the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the 1996 San Francisco International Film Festival.

From 1970-1983, Rhine lived in Summertown, Tennessee, on the legendary commune The Farm. Rhine was the director of The Farm Ambulance Service and director of the Plenty Emergency Medical Training Program. He also worked as a medic during the Longest Walk, a Native American civil rights march to Washington, DC in 1978. After leaving The Farm, Rhine lived for some time on the Akwesasne Reservation in New York, where he trained emergency medical technicians and midwives.

"Importantly, each film is marked by collaboration with Native advisors and lets Native people present Native issues on their own terms. Uniquely, the films address vital issues from an unabridged American Indian standpoint and with that unmistakable Native heart." —Walter Echo-Hawk, James Botsford, and Phil Cousineau. Indian Country Today, 1/20/06.

Presentado por NMAI

• Follow Me Home (1996) co-executive producer
  
• Wiping the Tears of Seven Generations (1991) co-director

Créditos Fotográficos: Gary Rhine - gentileza de Irene Romero-Rhine