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| FROZEN RIVER Courtney Hunt: Writer, Director Red Nation Film Lab Conversations Q & A with Directors and cast Frozen River is the story of Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom who is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling when she meets a Mohawk girl who lives on a reservation that straddles the US-Canadian border. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide, Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two begin making runs across the frozen St. Lawrence River carrying illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants in the trunk of Ray's Dodge Spirit. Running Time: 97 minutes Winners in 2008 of the: Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury prize Hamburg Film Festival - Critic's Award Seattle International Film Festival - Women in Cinema Lena Sharpe Award Provincetown International Film Festival - Audience Award Nantucket Film Festival - Writer/Director Award San Sebastián International Film Festival - Silver Seashell and TVE Otra Mirada Awards |
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Red is Green Environmental PSA - "Only One
Water" American Indians Placed at the Forefront of Global
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Transformations THE MISSION: To document the rich history of Native American Indians, as "told" by those who have lived it and as "seen" through the eyes of those who have witnessed dramatic transformations. To create a unique insight into tribal "past and present," and to retrace footsteps, to promote understanding and to ensure the preservation of Native American Indian Culture both today and tomorrow. Transformations is a film about the history, present and hopeful future of the Native American Indians of California |
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| A Journey Through Our Mother Montano Rain: Director The upcoming movie a Journey Through Our Mother is a trip to see what our Mother Earth's inhabitants and the animals are doing with global warming, and its purpose is to convince the human race that something needs to be done to help our Earth. |
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| Dreamkeeper Steve Barron: DIrector The Hallmark Hall of Fame production Dreamkeeper, A Teenager Shane Chasing Horse (Eddie Spears) is a member of the Dog Soldiers gang on the Pine Ridge Reservation. His mom (Sheila Tousey) asks him to take his grandpa Old Pete Chasing Horse (August Schellenberg) to the All Nations Storytelling Powwow in Santa Fe, NM. Shane owes money to some gangsters, so he agrees in order to get out of town. As they drive across South Dakota in a beat-up old Ford, Grandpa tells stories about magical Lakota legends. The stories are re-enacted with the help of computer-generated images. Dreamkeeper was broadcast on ABC in 2003. Running Time: 80 minutes |
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| Making the River Sarah Del Seronde (Diné): Director MAKING THE RIVER is the story of Native American Jimi Simmons who, along with his brother George, was charged with murdering a guard in Washington State’s Walla Walla prison. George was guilty. Jimi was innocent. The film chronicles Jimi’s quest for civil and religious rights, justice and freedom and the people who helped him along the way. Running Time: 83 minutes Nominated Best Documentary - American Indian Film Festival 2007 Eagle Spirit Award to Jimi Simmons (subject of Making the River) - American Indian Film Festival 2007 Best Feature Documentary - Talking Stick Film Festival 2008 Honorable Mention - The Accolade Film Awards 2008 |
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| Life on the Reservation Danielle White, Joe Joe White: Directors In 'Life on an Indian Reservation' Morgan Spurlock lives on a reservation with Native Americans near Window Rock, New Mexico, deep in the heart of the Navajo Nation. He will live with the Dennisons, an extended Native American family, in a traditional Navajo dwelling. Morgan will seek employment, study the Navajo language and witness the economic hardships and medical epidemics that are common to reservation life.Ê As he heads west to Navajo Nation near Window Rock, New Mexico, Morgan will realize just how little he knows about the issues facing this tribal culture. Running Time: 20 minutes |
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| Standing Silent Nation Suree Towfighnia: Director A documentary that chronicles the White Plume Family’s struggle to develop a Lakota Hemp industry on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Running Time: 53 minutes |
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Poetic Holocaust A few years ago I wrote a few poems about a female
German Soldier and a woman of Jewish faith. The poems where never
published. I have turned these few poems into a low budget movie.
I have added a small perspective of holocaust against North American
Native tribes some that were lost forever. What I have come up
with is a movie that has an artistic side to it. The movie has
various creative aspects to it, such as: dance, theater, poetry
readings with prose and poetry, short stories, music, script, and
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| The Garden Scott Hamilton Kennedy: Director The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community. But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis. The Garden follows the plight of the farmers, from
the tilled soil of this urban farm to the polished marble of City
Hall. Mostly immigrants from Latin America, from countries where
they feared for their lives if they were to speak out, we watch them
organize, fight back, and demand answers. |
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I’m Not the Indian you Had in Mind |
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| Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian
Boarding School Chip Richie: Director On June 10, 2008, the government of CanadaÊformally apologized to theÊWorld,Êin a solemn parliament session for its treatment of Indians in the last century. ÊPrime MinisterÊof Canada,ÊStephen Harper apologizedÊfor previous governments' policies of taking Indian children from their parents and homes and forcing them into residential Roman Catholic schools. This documentaryÊexamines an educational system that was designed to destroy Indian culture and tribal unity. When it began in 1879, the philosophy of the Indian boarding school system was Òto kill the Indian and save the man,Ó the mission statement of Captain Richard Henry Pratt, founder and superintendent of Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania until 1904. Jim Thorpe (Sauk and Fox), the iconic hero survived the boarding school system. Grace Thorpe (Sauk and Fox), his daughter, in her last interview before she passed away on April 4, 2008, discusses boarding school experiences in the new documentary Running Time: 80 minutes Accolade - Award of Excellence Best Feature Documentary - International Cherokee Film Festival Best Director - International Cherokee Film Festival Chris Award - Columbus International Film Festival |
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Black Cloud Black Cloud, is an inspirational story about a young
Navajo, Native American boxer, who overcomes personal challenges
as he comes to terms with his heritage, while fighting his way
for a spot on the US Olympic boxing team. |
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| Myth of Discovery Philomena Salem: Director A short documentary that exposes myth behind the celebration of Columbus Day. Film-maker Philomena Salem documents the 2007 Columbus Day parade in Denver, CO where 88 peaceful protesters where arrested in their attempt to spread the truth about the horrors and injustices behind this blindly honored holiday. Myth of Discovery includes the rally speech from American Indian activist, Russell Means, and an exclusive interview with respected Western Shoshone elder, Carrie Dann. Running Time: 19 minutes |
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| MOCCASIN FLATS: REDEMPTION Rob King: Director Amid a pressure-cooker of gang activity in the Regina, Saskatchewan neighborhood hotly debated as "Canada's Worst Neighborhood", an ex-junkie tries to reconcile with his horrific past with the help of a homeless child, his exgirlfriend, a halfway house counsellor and a quiet elder. Nominated - "Best Original Score in Aboriginal/Indigenous Theatre, Dance, or Film/Video Production" - Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, 2008, Toronto, ON Nominated - "Best Actor", "Best Actress", "Best Supporting Actor", "Best Supporting Actress"- American Indian Film Festival, 2008, San Francisco, CA |
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| Native Spirit Jennifer Casey: Director Native Spirit tells the story of the remarkable preservation of the ancient spiritual and cultural way of life of the Plains Indians, despite a government bent on its destruction. Narrator Tantoo Cardinal (Dances With Wolves) transports the viewer to the days of Red Cloud when, "Our old men talked to spirits and made good medicine. Our young men herded the horses and made love to the girls.In this way our grandfathers lived and were happy." Native elders from several tribes tell the heartbreaking history of their people; a history that led them to their surprising and inspiring ultimate triumph, a triumph of the native spirit. |
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Uncommon Passage: the Life, Blood, and Rhythm of Randy Castillo He was the drummer for Ozzy Osbourne from 1985-1993.
He played with Lita Ford on her 1984 Dancin' on the Edge album.
He was drumming for Motley Crue when he became ill. Randy was
in the process of forming his own band with Mike Inex-ex-Alice
In Chains bassist when he passed away. He co-wrote songs with
Ozzy Osbourne. He was also an accomplished artist. |
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| Grey Owl Richard Attenborough:Director Archie Grey Owl is a trapper in Canada in the early 1930s when a young Iroquois woman from town asks him to teach her Indian ways. They live in the woods, where she is appalled at how trapped animals die. She adopts two orphaned beaver kits and helps Archie see his way to stop trapping. Instead, he works as a guide, a naturalist writer, and then the Canadian government hires him to save the beaver in a conserve by Lake Ajawaan in Prince Albert National Park. He writes a biography, which brings him attention in Canada and invitations to lecture in England. Before he leaves, he and Anahareo (Pony) marry. In England, his secret is revealed. Will Anahareo continue to love him? Running Time: 117 minutes |
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| Seeking Bimaadiziiwin Kelly Saxberg and Dave Clement: Directors Reserve life, family problems and the death of a close friend push Kaitlyn, a young Anishinawbe woman, into a deep depression. Following a suicide attempt and a lengthy hospital stay in a strange city, she is encouraged by her psychiatrist to participate in group therapy with three other anishinawbe youth. However, a series of events and losses continue to make Kaitlyn's recovery uncertain. It's not until she almost loses one of her new close friends, that she begins to see clearly how precious life is. Running Time: 31 minutes |
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Conversation 1950. Christian missionaries make a catastrophic visit to a Navajo family. |
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| Nippa Ilitqusipta: The Voice of Our Spirit Rachel Naninaaq Edwardson: Director "History of the Inupiat: The Voice of Our Ancestors" tells the story of how the Inupaiq language, one of the oldest languages in the world, has survived 150 years of trauma through epidemics, missionaries, boarding schools and US governmental assimilation policies. "This is a story of survival and the need to take control for the future. The Inupiat are the Indigenous land owners of northern Alaska." Running Time: 49 minutes |
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| When Your Hands Are Tied Mia Boccella Hartle: Director "When Your Hands Are Tied" is an educational film that explores the unique ways in which native youth are finding to express themselves in the contemporary world while maintaining strong traditional lives. Running Time: 56 minutes |
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| American Holocaust: When Its all Over I'll Still
Be Indian Joanelle Romero: Director This powerful, hard-hitting documentary reveals the link between Adolf Hitler’s treatment of German Jews and the U.S. government’s treatment of American Indians depicts disturbing parallels between these two Holocausts and explores the historical, social and religious roots of America’s own “ethnic cleansing.” The film also examines, through the words and experiences of contemporary Indian people, the long term lasting effects of this on-going destructive process and the possible ramifications for the future of American Indian people in the 21st century. Winner - Fargo Film Festival 2003 JOANELLE ROMERO was the winner of Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award
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| Dana Benford B. Begay: Director In 2003, Dana Lee was accepted to the University of Notre Dame. There she hope to create change by diversifying the student community and giving the native american people a greater name. But, she soon realized that the lack of support from her fellow classmates and shock of a different culture would lead to her returning to the Nation Reservation. This story follows Dana back to the home in Twins Lakes, NM where we discover the beauty of home and the rebirth of a Navajo women. Running Time: 11 minutes |
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| Remember When Felicia Mason: Director Remember When is a movie I made to remind young people like me why it is important to listen to our elders, learn our Ojibwe language and practice our traditions. I wanted to show both young people and elders telling us what we all need to hear. I added effects so people would pay attention while they were listening. I think it's a pretty good movie. A lot of my friends helped me make this movie but it is all mine. I came up with the idea, I did the interviews, I edited it with help from my teachers and I made all the choices. Running Time: 7 minutes |
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| Fish On a film by Diane Perlov, Frode Storaas, Liivo Niglas The Klamath River of Oregon and California is one of the most important salmon runs in the United States. While diminished over the past 100 years, it still supports an abundance of life and diverse economies struggling over its future course. This is a film about the Indian tribes of the river ecosystem - what the Klamath means to them and how they draw on traditional and modern resources to restore its strength, beauty and balance. |
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| Red Lake - The Sacred Heart of Our People Tom Barrett Jr., Brittany Kingbird, Emilio Mendoza, Sally May, Jordan Neadeau, Kayla Neadeau, Lila Beaulieu: Directors A documentary about the history of Red Lake Nation, spanning its geographic origins to present day environmental issues being faced by the tribe. Includes historic recreations, and interviews with elders, tribal leaders and youth. Running Time: 22 minutes |
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