Native Cinema Showcase August 18 - 24, 2004

1050 Old Pecos Trail • Santa Fe, New Mexico • 505 982 1338 ON THE CORNER (2003, 90 min.) . Director: Nathaniel Geary. Actors: THE NATIVE CINEMA SHOWCASE Alex Rice (Mohawk) and Simon Baker (). is an international film and video festival held during Indian Named the best Canadian film by the critics at the 2003 Market to celebrate the creativity of Native cinema today. International Film Festival, On the Corner is a raw, true-to-life This yearʼs showcase features Native stories and peoples from view of Native people living on the mean streets of Vancouverʼs Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, the Siberian Downtown Eastside. Angel, supporting her heroin addiction by Arctic, and the United States. Produced by the Smithsonian working as a prostitute, tries to turn her life around when she sees National Museum of the American Indian and the Center for Black Cloud her teenage brother sinking into the same black hole thatʼs consum- Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe, the showcase exhibits preemi- ing her. Compelling performances bring to life the ravages of this nent contemporary Native cinema to the northern New Mexico unforgiving world, as well as the humanity and courage of those community and national and international visitors who come to who are caught in it. Santa Fe for Indian Market. A THIEF OF TIME (2003, 94 min.) U.S. Director: Chris Eyre (Cheyenne/Arapaho). THE COMPLETE PROGRAM Executive Producers: Robert Redford and Rebecca Eaton. Producer: Craig McNeil BLACK CLOUD (2004, 97 min.,) U.S. Director and writer: Rick Schroder. for PBSʼ Mystery! Actors: Adam Beach (Saulteaux), Wes Studi (Cherokee), (Métis), Peter Fonda, Sheila Tousey (Menominee), Alex Rice (Mohawk), and Executive producer: Adam Batz. Actors: Eddie Spears (Lakota), Saginaw Grant (Sac A Bride of the Seventh Heaven and Fox), (Lakota), Rick Schroder, Tim McGraw, Wayne Knight, and Kelly Byars (Choctaw). Peter Greene. In the latest episode of Mystery! to be based on a Tony Hillerman Set on the Navajo Reservation, Black Cloud tells the story of a novel, Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn go into action again. This time young Navajo man who must face down his inner demons if he the Navajo tribal policemenʼs search for a missing archeologist wants to make the U.S. Olympic boxing team. The film was inspired puts them squarely in the sights of Anasazi pot pickers. The storyʼs by the real-life accomplishments of the Damon Bahe Boxing Club events revolve around a serious issue for indigenous peoples: illegal of Chinle, Arizona—an after-school program for local youths at excavations of sacred sites. The filmʼs title refers to a sign outside of risk—which has 27 national champions to its credit. Funded by Chaco Canyon, a major center of ancestral Puebloan cultures, which Donʼt Call Me Tonto tribes in California, Minnesota and Oklahoma, Black Cloud has reads “Thief of Time: Pot Hunters Destroy Americaʼs Past.” Discussion won several awards, including the Best Picture Audience Award at with the director follows. Invited: Adam Beach, Wes Studi. the 2004 Phoenix Film Festival. Discussion with the director follows. Invited: Russell Means. MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH: SHORT FICTIONS TRT: 100 minutes. An explosion of Native film talent is seen in new works by directors A BRIDE OF THE SEVENTH HEAVEN (2003, 85 min.) Finland/Russia. from North America and the Pacific Rim that tell stories of resistance, Directors: Anastasia Lapsui (Nenet) and Markku Lehmuskallio. Actors: Angelina spiritual strength, and transformation. Kava Kultcha (2003, 10 min.) Saraleta (Nenet), Viktoria Hudi (Nenet), Ljuba Filipova (Nenet), Jevgeni Hudi (Nenet), U.S./Hawaiʻi. Director: Leah Kihara (Native Hawaiian) Set in a futuristic world Dreamkeeper and Gennadi Puikko (Nenet). dominated by an enforcement agency intent on eliminating cultural Filmed in the indigenous homeland of the Nenets of northwest diversity, a peaceful Polynesian resistance group dares to practice Siberia, A Bride of the Seventh Heaven is a tale of a woman set their own traditions, including the drinking of kava. The Shirt (2003, 6 apart from her people by her betrothal to Num, the high god of the min.) Canada. Director: Shelley Niro (Mohawk) An experimental video featur- Nenets. The old womanʼs life unfolds in flashbacks that transport ing Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie that uses the teeshirt to express history viewers to the traditional Nenet world. The director based her film and irony. Memory (2002, 14 min.) U.S. Director: Cedar Sherbert (Kumeyaay) on an elderʼs story heard during her childhood in the stark and The heartache of memory is explored as an elderly aunt (Tantoo beautiful lands of the Yamal peninsula. Cardinal) mysteriously returns to attend the memorial for a familyʼs On the Corner young son. Dotʼs Death (2002, 20 min.) New Zealand. Director and lead actor: DONʼT CALL ME TONTO (2003, 83 min.) Canada. Directors: Alan Smithee Stan Wolfgramm (Tongan), Teresa, a white woman estranged from her and Philip Spink. Executive producer and writer: Annie Frazier Henry (Blackfoot/ Sioux/French). Actors: (Cree/Stoney), David Hasselhoff, Michael bigoted mother, Dot, since marrying a Tongan man named Willie, Moriarty and (Cree). receives word that her mother is dying. In keeping with his own Media-maker Annie Frazier Henry is always exploring new ways culture, and against his wifeʼs wishes, Willie decides to bring Dot of storytelling through film and video with an emphasis on making into their home for her final days. Wind (1999, 35 min.) Australia. Director: old teachings and stories more accessible to younger generations. Ivan Sen (Gamilaroi) Set in 1850s Australia, a young black tracker is brought along with his commanding sergeant to hunt down a sus- Her work has been presented at the Sundance Film Festival, Taos A Thief of Time Talking Pictures, Santa Fe Film Festival, ImagineNATIVE Media Arts pected Aboriginal murderer. Wind won the Best Debut Film Award Festival and the Native American Film and Video Festival. In this at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival. Music Is the Medicine (2003, 5 min.) rollicking comedy an unlikely pair—a washed-up rodeo star and a Canada. Directors: Randy Redroad (Cherokee), Derek Miller (Mohawk) and Jody Native corporate lawyer—are forced to go on the run together after Martin Matthew Hill. A landscape video of Millerʼs song, described being accused of robbing a bingo hall. Pursued by a Colombo- by filmmaker Jim Jarmusch as “Hank Williams meets Link Wray.” like detective, they race to clear their names and, in the process, Discussion with performer Derek Miller follows. develop a newfound respect for each other and a new outlook on FROM THE ARCTIC TO THE AMAZON: A FAITH HUBLEY life. Filmed in Calgary and on the Tsuu Tʼina Nation. Invision: Annie Kava Kultcha Frazier Henry. RETROSPECTIVE TRT: 60 minutes. A focus on the work of Faith Hubley (1925-2002), whose anima- tions were inspired by world cultures and indigenous oral tradi- Free Screening: DREAMKEEPER (2003, 120 min.) U.S. Director: Steve Barron. Executive producer: Robert Halmi Sr. Produced by Hallmark Entertainment. tions. Hubleyʼs revolutionary, independent visions connect deeply Actors: Tantoo Cardinal (Métis), Gary Farmer (Cayuga), Michael Greyeyes (Cree), to Mother Earth and her inhabitants. Inspired by three South Sage, (Mohawk), Eddie Spears (Lakota), Chaske Spencer American myths, Amazonia (1990, 10 min.) is a plea to save the tropi- (Lakota), Gordon Tootoosis (Cree/Stoney), John Trudell (Santee Sioux), Sheila Tousey cal rain forest and its unique inhabitants. Northern Ice, Golden Sun (Menominee), and Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman (Dakota). (2001, 10 min.), the 25th and final solo film completed by Hubley, is Pete Chasing Horse (August Schellenberg) is an elder storyteller. Wind a lyrical visual tribute to environmentalism and to the Inuitsʼ attach- Shane (Eddie Spears), his 16-year-old grandson, who is having ment and ability to adapt to the natural world. Starlore (1983, 10 min.) trouble with local Native gang members, lives in a world apart is an animated presentation of five Native American origin stories from his elders. As the two generations embark on a cross-country reflected in the constellations. In Cloudland (1993, 10 min.) mythic journey, Grandpa Pete brings the boy back to a Native place with creatures, surreal landscapes, and an evocative soundtrack are traditional stories of many Native Nations. Native actors young and drawn from Australian Aboriginal art and mythology. Discussion old bring the stories to life under the experienced hand of direc- follows with Faith Hubleyʼs daughter, award-winning animator tor Steve Barron. Discussion with the associate producer Georgina Emily Hubley. Lightning (Cree) follows. Free Admission. Music is the Medicine NEW GENERATIONS TRT: 90 minutes. WIPING THE TEARS TRT: 80 minutes. The growing talent of the next generation of Native filmmakers is Estos Dolores Somos (2003, 6 min.) Mexico. Director: Roberto Olivares. making waves already. This program presents outstanding new pro- Produced by Ojo de Agua Comunicación. In Spanish with English subtitles. This ductions from Native youth media projects in the U.S. and Canada. video, based on the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the From the American Indian Resource Center in Tahlequah, Okla- March of the Color of the Earth in Mexico, pays tribute to the homa, How the Red Bird Got His Color (2002, 5 min.) is a claymation Zapatista movement in Chiapas. The Ghost Riders (2003, 58 min.) U.S. of a traditional Cherokee tale by animators from grades 6–8 at the Director: V. Blackhawk Aamodt (Blackfoot/Lakota/Mexican). Executive producer Dahlonegah Elementary School. From Big Soul Productions comes a How the Red Bird Got His Color and narrator: Benjamin Bratt (Quechua). The Bigfoot Memorial Ride, an sci-fi claymation, Might of the Starchaser (2003, 24 min.) Director: Joseph annual 300-mile journey on horseback, helps the Lakota Nation Lazare (Mohawk) that premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. “wipe the tears” shed for the massacre of Lakota men, women, and Itʼs up to a young space officer to save his planet from the onslaught children at Wounded Knee in 1896, and for more recent hardships. of an evil baby lizard bent on repopulating his species and destroy- Participants convey the rideʼs spirit of sacrifice and remembrance, ing the planet. Akatubi Film and Music Academy of the Owens and the Lakota peopleʼs determination to build a better future. Valley Career and Development Center in California presents four Discussion with the director follows. new works. In The Great Indian Massacre (2004, 7 min.) Director: Arron TRT: 90 minutes. Juarez (Paiute) descendants of survivors of the 1863 Kern River Valley Might of the Starchaser AS WE LIVE TODAY massacre at Fort Tejon recount their family histories in a series of in- I Belong to This (2003, 15 min.) U.S. Director: Dustinn Craig (White Mountain terviews intercut with archival footage. In the dramatic short Bigger Apache). Executive producer: Orlando Bagwell. Produced for the PBS series Matters of Race. A young man reflects on raising his children in their Indian Things (2004, 12 min.) Directors: Jenny Hartman and Jessyca Ponce, a woman traditions and on his own relationship to his childhood community. nearing the end of her life and her daughter, who has been reared Looking Toward Home (2003, 58 min.) U.S. Director: Dale Kruzic. Producers: in foster care, confront their own lives and relationship. In The Last Conroy Chino (Acoma) and Beverly Morris (Aleut). Produced in association with Laugh (2004, 9 min.) Director: Shaleena Delgado (Tlingit) a group of teenag- Native American Public Telecommunications. Journalist Conroy Chino takes ers on a camping trip hear rumors of a mysterious circus nearby. viewers on an exploration of the life and times of urban Indians in If the Weather Permits When one of them gets spooked by campfire stories, the others start New York, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay area, begin- laughing—but they may not have the last laugh. Composure (2003, 7 ning with a look back at off-reservation relocation in the 1950s and min.) Director: Tazbah Chavez (Bishop Paiute) is a lively experimental piece ʻ60s. Invited: Conroy Chino and Dale Kruzic. The Native Cinema from the Bishop Paiute reservation in California. Discussion with Showcase is also screening this work on August 14 at the Indian Yvonne Russo (Lakota) and media-makers from the Akatubi Film and Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque. Music Academy follows. NATIVE GAMES TRT: 90 minutes. SUMMER TRT: 80 minutes. Toka (1994, 24 min.) U.S. Directors: David Wing and Cyndee Wing. Women and Kunuk Family Reunion (2004, 48 min.) Canada. Directors: Zacharias Kunuk (In- Marangmotxíngmo Mïrang girls of the Tohono Oʼodham tribe of Arizona play an exciting game uit) and Norman Cohn. Produced in cooperation with Nunavut Independent Television of stickball, reflecting the peopleʼs age-old traditions. Spirit of the Network, History Television, and Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. The strong Game (2003, 48 min.) Canada. Director: Annie Frazier Henry (Blackfoot/Sioux/ connection between many generations is expressed by members of French). Produced in association with the National Film Board of Canada. A life-long the extended family of noted director Zach Kunuk (Atanarjuat/The advocate for Native youth, Annie Frazier Henry has received numer- Fast Runner) when they return together to their traditional homesite ous awards for her documentary and fiction work. In 2000, she at Siurajuk in the Canadian Arctic. U.S. premiere. If the Weather was named Producer/Writer/Director of the Year at the Aboriginal Permits (2003, 28 min.) Canada. Director: Elisapie Isaac (Inuit). Produced by the Visions and Voices Symposium of the 21st Century. Named best National Film Board of Canada. A young, -based Inuit filmmaker Waiʼrini: The Power of the Dream Native Film at the 2003 Santa Fe Film Festival, this documentary returns to her roots, pondering the relationship between Inuit past focuses on the rich legacy of sports for First Nations young people and future in todayʼs world. In interviews with her extraordinary and profiles young participants in the Indigenous Olympic Games grandfather and with young people of the community, she finds, held in Winnipeg. Invited: Annie Frazier Henry. perhaps, more questions than answers. Director Elisapie Isaac is also an accomplished contemporary and traditional Inuit musician IS THE CROWN AT WAR WITH US? (2002, 96 min.) Canada. Producer who composes music and sings with Alain Auger in the duo Taima. and director: Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki). Produced for the National Film Board of Canada. The 2004 Native Cinema Showcase honors filmmaker Alanis VIDEO IN THE VILLAGES TRT 100 minutes. For 20 years the Video in The Ghost Riders Obomsawin (Abenaki) whose passionate commitment to aboriginal the Villages/Video nas Aldeias project (VNA) has worked closely rights has brought thousands of audiences compelling, insider views with Indian communities in Brazil. VNA produces the award-winning of the struggles of First Nations people. In the summer of 2000, works of the projectʼs many videomakers and organizes indigenous at Burnt Church Reserve, or Esgenoopetitj, in New Brunswickʼs video production workshops. These productions won the top prizes Miramichi Bay, Canadian federal fisheries officers aggressively at the recent Premio Anaconda Film Festival in Latin America and attacked a group of Miʼkmaq fishermen as they were hauling in lob- First Peopleʼs Festival in Canada. Waiʼa Rini: The Power of the ster traps. Examining the conflict and its complex roots in the Native Dream (2001, 65 min.) Brazil. Director: Divino Tserewahú (Xavante). In Xavante history of the Atlantic Coast, the film offers a gripping portrait of a with English subtitles. Part of the long cycle of initiation ceremonies of Looking Toward Home community under siege. Discussion with the director follows. the Xavante people, the Waiʼa celebration introduces young men to spiritual life. The videomaker documents the emergence of the OUR NATIONHOOD (2003, 96 min.) Canada. Producer and director: Alanis young men of his own initiation group into their ceremonial roles. Obomsawin (Abenaki). Produced for the National Film Board of Canada. An elo- He speaks with his father and other leaders of the ceremonies quent advocate for aboriginal filmmaking, Alanis Obomsawin has who stress the role of discipline learned by the initiates and the produced more than 20 documentaries on issues affecting First Nations people of Canada. Obomsawin has been honored with importance of video in preserving the practices. Marangmotxíngmo film retrospectives at major festivals and received the Canadian Mïrang: From the Ikpeng Children to the World (2002, 35 min.) Brazil. Governor Generalʼs Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2001. The Directors: Kumaré Txicão (Ikpeng), Karané Txicão (Ikpeng), and Natuyu Yuwipo Tx- Is the Crown at War with Us? icão (Ikpeng). In Ikpeng with English subtitles. In Xingu Park in Mato Grosso, ongoing struggles of the Miʼkmaq community at Listuguj in , Brazil, four Ikpeng children, filmed by videomakers from their com- and the issue of logging on their traditional lands are the subjects munity, introduce their village in a video letter addressed to other of Our Nationhood. As the focus turns to a standoff facing the com- children. With grace and lightheartedness they show their families, munity—the tension between traditional and government-sanctioned their toys, their celebrations, their way of life. leaderships—the film asserts the importance to aboriginal people of nationhood and the management of their own resources. Discussion with the director follows.

Our Nationhood A SPECIAL SCREENING: The Native Cinema Showcase and the Indian Pueblo Cultural COMPLETE SCHEDULE Center present LOOKING TOWARD HOME (2003, 58 min.) U.S. Director: Dale Kruzic. Produc- ers: Conroy Chino (Acoma) and Beverly Morris (Aleut). Produced in association with Native American Public Saturday, August 14 Looking Toward Home, 7:30 pm IPCC Telecommunications. Journalist Conroy Chino takes viewers on an exploration of the life and times of urban Indians in New York, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area, Wednesday, August 18 beginning with a look back at off-reservation relocation in the 1950s and ʼ60s. Intro- Black Cloud, 7:00 pm Cinematheque duced by Beverly Morris. Saturday, August 14, 2004, 7:30 pm. At the Indian Pueblo Thursday, August 19 Cultural Center Silver & Turquoise Theater, 2401-12th St. NW, between I-40 & Menaul. Matters of Life and Death, 5:20 pm Video Hall Albuquerque, New Mexico. Phone: (505) 843-7270. Tickets: $5 per person. Seating is Bride of the Seventh Heaven, 7 pm Cinematheque limited and early purchase of tickets is encouraged and will be sold at the door. Ticket From the Arctic to the Amazon: Faith Hubley, 7:20 pm Video Hall sales start August 7th. Friday, August 20 Native Games, 4:30 pm Cinematheque SHOWCASE STAFF Wiping the Tears, 4:45 pm Video Hall Elizabeth Weatherford, National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and Jerry Nunavut Summer, 6:20 pm Video Hall Barron, Center for Contemporary Arts. Coordinator: Michelle Svenson, NMAI. Out- On the Corner, 7:00 pm Cinematheque reach Coordinator: Charmaine Jackson-John, founding director of Naʼal kid Film Video in the Villages, 8:00 pm Video Hall Festival, Farmington, NM. Additional support has been provided by the program and Saturday, August 21 administrative staff of the NMAI Film and Video Center: Millie Seubert, Reaghan Tar- New Generations, 1:15 pm Cinematheque bell, Kim Hudson, Elaine Grubbs. Special thanks to FVC intern Marcella Ernest. Center Matters of Life and Death, 1:35 pm Video Hall for Contemporary Arts: Luke Dorman, Ann Marran, Elisa Keir, Melanie Matthews, Julia As We Live Today, 3:25 pm Cinematheque Felix, Zach Scheinbaum and Owen Conley. Is the Crown at War With Us?, 3:35 pm Video Hall A Thief of Time, 5:10 pm Cinematheque Dreamkeeper, 5:40 pm Video Hall FREE PRESENTING ORGANIZATIONS A Bride of the Seventh Heaven, 7:15 pm Cinematheque Established in 1989, through an Act of Congress, the SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL Donʼt Call Me Tonto, 8:00 pm Video Hall MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN is a museum of living cultures dedicated to Sunday, August 22 the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of the Native peoples of the Western A Thief of Time, 12 Noon Cinematheque Hemisphere. The Museum includes the George Gustav Heye Center, a permanent Our Nationhood, 12:20 pm Video Hall exhibition and education facility in New York City and the Cultural Resources Center, Black Cloud, 2:05 pm Cinematheque a research and collection facility in Suitland, Maryland. The museum on the National Native Games, 2:25 pm Video Hall Mall in Washington, D.C. is opening with a gala celebration on September 21, 2004. As We Live Today, 4:10 pm Cinematheque For additional information on the Mall opening, the Museum or becoming a Charter Donʼt Call Me Tonto, 4:25 pm Video Hall Member, please visit our website at www.AmericanIndian.si.edu or call 1-800-242- On the Corner, 5:55 pm Cinematheque Nunavut Summer, 6:10 pm Video Hall NMAI (6624). Questions may be emailed to [email protected] Monday, August 23 THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS is “Santa Feʼs best known alternative art A Thief of Time, 7 pm Cinematheque space.” (Art in America), presenting the worldʼs best cinema, contemporary art in three galleries and a progressive performing arts program. Tuesday, August 24 A Bride of the Seventh Heaven, 7 pm Cinematheque THE POND FOUNDATION is a sponsor of The Native Cinema Showcase and the Cen- ter for Contemporary Arts. Pond Foundation is a small, private foundation and does HOW TO ATTEND THE SHOWCASE: not accept unsolicited proposals. Patron Passes, including priority access to all Native Showcase events, are avail- This year, for the first time, Native Cinema Showcase presents new work in Albuquer- able for $150. All film/video shows are $8 for general admission and $6 for NMAI que in collaboration with the INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER. Owned and oper- and CCA Members. Tickets and passes are available at the CCA box office begin- ated by the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico, IPPC is the “gateway” to the 19 Pueblos and ning at 2 p.m. Friday, August 8. a centerpiece Pueblo heritage center, with programs, performances and conferences CCA is located at 1050 Old Pecos Trail. All events subject to change. Call 505-982- throughout the year. Open seven days a week, the Center features a main museum, a 1338 or check www.ccasantafe.org for further information. childrenʼs museum, the Pueblo Archives and Institute for Pueblo Research, a restaurant, For information about the screening in Albuquerque on August 14 at the Indian and gift shops. Pueblo Cultural Center, call (505) 843-7270.

IN GRATITUDE POSTER/COVER ARTIST Special thanks to W. Richard West, Director, National Museum of the American Indian; Stephen Deo (Creek/Euchee) is an Oklahoma artist who John Haworth, Director, NMAI George Gustav Heye Center; Sally Bowers, NMAI; V. studied at the Institute of American Indian Art, the San Blackhawk Aamodt, filmmaker; Akatubi Film and Music Academy; American Indian Francisco Art Institute and Purdue University. Working in Resource Center; The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers; Orlando Bag- sculpture, photography and multi-media painting, Deo well, Roja Productions; Sara Driver, filmmaker; Gary Farmer, actor and media-maker; creates contemporary work that retains a passionate and Finnish Film Foundation; Kathy Hahn, The Hahn Company; Laura Milliken, Big Soul authentic Native voice. PERCEPTIONS, an exhibit of Deoʼs Productions; Beth Nussbaum, Hallmark Entertainment; Jim Jarmusch, filmmaker; Seth work in CCAʼs Lobby Gallery, opens August 20, 5-7 pm. Rothman and Melissa Sanchez, Native Roots and Rhythm festival; Tom Stebbens and Owen Dockson, WGBH Boston; Jonathan Wacks, filmmaker; Grant Taylor, Suncloud Productions; Evy Todd, KNME-TV; Zia Film Distributing. Very special thanks to indepen- dent film curator and writer Jason Silverman.

WE SALUTE Native Roots and Rhythms Festival is a premier venue for contemporary and traditional Native American music, dance, storytelling, and comedy. The 10th Annual event will take place on August 20 and 21 at the Paolo Soleri Amphitheater in Santa Fe. Friday is a Contemporary Native Music & Comedy Showcase. Saturday is a Native Performing Arts Spectacular. Tickets: 505-988-1234, Tickets.com, Lensic box office (SF). Event info: www.santafe.net/nativerootsnrhythms