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NATIVE AMERICAN FILM +VIDEO FESTIVAL 2003 DECEMBER 4–7

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian THE NATIVE AMERICAN FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL

The 12th Native American Film and Video Festival celebrates the many remarkable recent accomplish­ HOW TO ATTEND THE FESTIVAL ments in the field of Native media, presenting 85 outstanding productions from Bolivia, Brazil, , Chile, El Salvador, Mexico, Arctic Russia and the continental United States and Hawai'i. All festival programs are free. For daytime programs at NMAI and the evening program at Donnell Media Center, Organized by the Film and Video Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American seating is on a first come, first served basis. Indian (FVC), the festival is being presented in at the NMAI George Gustav Heye Center, the Donnell Media Center of The New York Public Library, and the American Indian Community House. Reservations are recommended for evening programs at NMAI and AICH. No more than 4 tickets can be The festival program has been chosen by invited selectors—Native American media makers and reserved by any one person. At NMAI: pickup cultural activists—and the FVC program staff. Additional input from experts in the field has con­ reserved tickets at the Will-Call Desk starting 40 tributed to the diversity of work being presented and to this year’s strong “New Generations” program min. before showtime. Tickets not picked up by 15 for Native youth media makers, who will screen their work to New York high school students and the min. before showtime are released to the Wait List. general public, as well as participate in youth media workshops. At AICH: reservations are on a door list. Seats not claimed by 20 min. before showtime are released A two-day festival forum, “NHTV— Native Hemisphere TV,” will focus on television, which has in to the Wait List. NMAI charter members are given recent years been a strengthening force for Native American film and video. The Aboriginal Peoples priority for reservations until November 22. To Television Network, the National Film Board and Telefilm in Canada, the Native American Public reserve call 212-514-3737 or reserve on-line at www.nativenetworks.si.edu/reservfest. Telecommunications and Pacific Islanders in Communications, ITVS, and P.O.V./American Documentary in the U.S. have been notable in supporting production and broadcasting Native views. In Latin America, Please note: All visitors to the NMAI Heye Center weekly Native news programs are now produced in Chile and Bolivia, and in Mexico a satellite educa­ are required to go through a security check and tional channel has launched a series on Mexico’s indigenous people. magnetometer, much like airport security. No sharp or metal items will be allowed into the Museum.

MEET THE FESTIVAL SELECTORS All programs are wheelchair accessible. To request assistance for the hearing impaired, contact the Marcelina Cárdenas Sausa Festival no later than November 22 at [email protected]. Since 1997, Marcelina Cárdenas (Quechua) has been active as a media producer, radio reporter and member of the grassroots National Plan for Indigenous People’s Audiovisual Communication of Bolivia Visit the Festival Website at (CAIB), where she has focused on the dissemination of audiovisual knowledge directly to indigenous www.nativenetworks.si.edu (English) www.redesindigenas.si.edu (Español) communities. She has written and directed her first feature, Llanthupi Munakuy/Loving Each Other in and NMAI’s Website at www.nmai.si.edu the Shadows, which had its U.S. premiere during NMAI’s 2002 video tour Ojo del Cóndor/Eye of the Condor. Marcelina is a graduate student at the Universidad Autónoma Tomás Frías (UATF) in Potosí, studying linguistics, with a special emphasis in Quechua. She is also a community activist, working DIRECTIONS with women’s groups in her community of CK’ochas to promote training in agriculture, health, literacy, and community organizing. The National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, is located at One Randy Redroad Bowling Green adjacent to the northeast corner of Battery Park. Subway: 4, 5 to Bowling Green; Director Randy Redroad’s (Cherokee) debut feature The Doe Boy has won multiple awards, including 1, 9 to South Ferry; N, R to Whitehall Street; Bus: the NHK International Filmmaker’s Award at the Sundance Film Festival, the Best First Time Director M1, M6 to Bowling Green Park; M15 to South Ferry. Award at Taos Talking Pictures Festival, and a nomination for the IFP/Gotham Open Palm Award for Outstanding Directorial Debut. An alumnus of the Sundance Institute’s Filmmaker’s Lab and recipi­ American Indian Community House (8th floor), ent of the prestigious Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, he has directed three short films, including 404 Lafayette. Subway: N, R to 8th St.; 6 to High Horse, winner of the Best Short Film Award at the American Indian Film Festival and Best Film Astor Place. Bus: M1, M6 southbound on Broadway at the Festival d’Amiens, France. In 1998, Randy traveled to Mexico with the NMAI Film and Video to 8th St.; M15 from South Ferry northbound to Center’s Video Native America/Video América Indígena tour. His work has been featured on the Astor Place. Sundance Channel, PBS, The Learning Channel, and IFC. He is also a producer and faculty member The Donnell Media Center. 20 W. 53rd Street, New for the Native youth media program at the Owens Valley Center for Career Development and Training’s York. Subway: E, F to Fifth Ave.; 6 to 51st St.; N, Talented and Never Forgotten (TANF) program. Randy is currently developing his second feature film, R to 49th St. (at 7th Ave.); Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, Blue Suede Indian. M5, Q32 southbound on Fifth Ave. or northbound on Madison Ave. to 53rd St. Paul M. Rickard Paul M. Rickard () is from Moose Factory in northern . A producer, director and camera­ man for over 10 years, he now has his own production group based in Montreal. Paul has written and NATIVE NETWORKS WEBSITE directed a number of award-winning works, including his directorial debut film Ayouwin: A Way of Life Native Networks, NMAI’s Website on Native media, (1996). He directed Okimah, which had its U.S. premiere at the 2000 Native American Film and was launched in 2001. The site profiles media Video Festival and won the Best of the Fest award at the Yellowknife Far North Film Festival. Paul makers and organizations, and provides resource directed and co-produced Finding My Talk: A Journey into Aboriginal Languages, which led to the lists and other information on indigenous film, production of a 13-part series Finding Our Talk for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. The video, television, radio, and interactive media. second season of F.O.T is currently being broadcast on APTN. Over the years, Paul has also been Visitors can read news about awards and honors, involved in numerous multimedia training programs and has recently completed a workshop on media opportunities, broadcasts, and festival digital storytelling with 30 young students in Moose Factory. screenings. FVC programs and festivals are also featured, including a filmography of works screened Mary Sando-Emhoolah at the Native American Film and Video Festivals since 1995. Send FVC your questions, comments, Mary Sando-Emhoolah (Warm Springs/Wasco/Aleut) has over 15 years’ experience in public radio, and news via the site's “Contact Us/Contáctenos” most recently working as program manager at the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Tribal Radio feature. www.nativenetworks.si.edu (English) or Station, KWSO–FM. She has been honored by the National Federation of Community Broadcasters www.redesindigenas.si.edu (Español). (NFCB) and the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA). A current board member of NFCB, Mary served on the planning committee of UNITY ‘94, the joint conference of the Asian, Black, Hispanic and Native American journalist organizations, and as the trainer for NFCB’s Native radio Front cover student project. She has participated in national radio productions with the Smithsonian Institution. Ghost Riders In 2001 Mary was a key planner for the Native Radio Summit, a gathering of all Native radio organ­ Back cover izations in the U.S. She is a program reviewer, producer, and advisor to AIROS, American Indian Radio (From left in clockwise order) On Satellite. Currently, Mary works as an independent producer and makes her home at Confederated Rocks with Wings, Cortos Taraspanglish/ Tribes of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Taraspanglish Shorts, Cowboys and Indians

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FESTIVAL STAFF Youth & Media OFFSITE SCREENING NMAI Administration AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL W. Richard West (Southern ), NMAI Director WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3 AT ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES Doug Evelyn, NMAI Deputy Director 32 Second Avenue, New York John Haworth (Cherokee), GGHC Director A joint program of NMAI’s Film and Video Admission is charged. Festival Directors Center and Education Department. For more Elizabeth Weatherford, Film and Video Center (FVC) For information, see www.NYADFF.org information about youth and media programs, Emelia Seubert, FVC or call 212-864-1760 contact us at: www.nativenetworks.si.edu. Festival Selectors At the bottom of the screen, click on Screenings organized by ADFF in coopera­ Marcelina Cárdenas (Quechua) Amalia Córdova, Latin American Coordinator, FVC “Contact Us!” and select “Inquiry–Festival.” tion with the 12th Native American Film Randy Redroad (Cherokee) Festival. Introduced by the directors. Paul Rickard (Cree) Mary Sando-Emhoolah (Warm Springs/Wasco/Aleut) KIDS COUNT Michelle Svenson, Festival Coordinator, FVC A mini-feature claymation presented to TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2 Festival Staff an invited audience of middle-school Wendy Allen, Coordinator, Native Networks/Redes students from New York City. This film 3:30 pm Indígenas Website will also be featured in NMAI’s Animation Rocks With Wings Nanobah Becker (), Assistant to the Festival Celebration! at GGHC in New York, Coordinator Rick Derby. 2002, 113 min. US. Jorge Estevez (Taino), Public Programs Department December 15, 2003, through January 11, Carlos Gómez, Coordinator of Translation and 2004, from 11:30 am to 2 pm daily. A thrilling portrait of the Lady Chieftains, Interpretation Elaine Grubbs, Audiovisual Coordinator the legendary Navajo girls basketball team Christine Halvorsen, Latin American Consultant Christmas at Wapos Bay from Shiprock, Arizona. Produced in Kathleen Haskin, FVC Database Consultant association with Native American Public Dennis Jackson (Cree). Kim Hudson, FVC Administrative Support Telecommunications. Charmaine Jackson (Navajo), FVC Documentation 2002, 48 min. Canada. Produced in Coordinator association with the National Film Board Carole Lazio, FVC Database Coordinator of Canada. Gabriela Zamorano, Assistant to the Latin American MONDAY, DECEMBER 8 Coordinator Three Cree kids visit their grandparents in Special Consultant the bush in the Canadian North. When an 6:10 pm Alberto Muenala (Quichua) emergency arises, traditional Cree skills Llanthupi Munakuy/ Loving Each save the day. NY premiere. Introduced by Other in the Shadows Festival Assistants and Volunteers film editor Melanie Jackson (/Cree). Shelley Bance, James Diamond (Métis), Caro Diessel, Marcelina Cárdenas (Quechua). Patrick Glynn, Sorayya Kassamali, William Luther (Navajo/Hopi/Laguna), Zeke Reich, Reaghan Tarbell 2001, 50 min. Bolivia. (Mohawk), John Humphrey, FVC Volunteer Extraordinaire FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5 This work will also be screened at NMAI Youth Media Team on Saturday, December 6 at 7 pm. Klee Benally (Navajo), Indigenous Action Media NEW GENERATIONS Beni Mathias, youth media consultant Johanna Gorelick, GGHC Education Department Native youth in video share their work Matt O’Neill and Mami Kuwano, Downtown with an invited teen audience from Community TV Jennifer Podemski (Saulteaux) and Laura Milliken New York City. Screenings of “New Llanthupi Munakuy/ Loving Each Other in the Shadows (), Big Soul Productions Generations” works for the general public Yvonne Russo (Lakota), Owens Valley Center for Career take place on Sunday, December 7. Development and Training Participants from the following youth Kristine Sorensen, In Progress Amy Tall Chief (Osage), GGHC Education Department media projects will present their work:

GGHC Staff Support Big Soul Productions; Indigenous Action Berquis Arias, Administration Media; Ogichidaakweg—In Progress; Owens Peter Brill, Exhibitions and Public Spaces Valley Career Development Center TANF/ William Cabeza, Facilities Talented and Never Forgotten Program; and Margaret Chen, Administration Gaetana de Gennaro (Tohona O’odam), Resource Taraspanglish Migrants Video Project Center Manager Sue Lank, Network Communications Center Manager Tamara Levine, Administration Leonor Morel, Administration Catherine Morrison, Office of External Affairs & Live from New York— Development (OEA&D) Ann Marie Sekeres, OEA&D Aboriginal Voices Radio Susannah Stieff, Exhibitions and Public Spaces Annie Teamer (Cherokee), Volunteers Coordinator Ryan Jacobs (Lumbee), Network Communications SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 AND SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7 Other NMAI Staff Support Maria Canellis, NMAI Special Events Keevin Lewis (Navajo), Community Services Aboriginal Voices Radio, Canada’s out­ Ceni Myles (Navajo/Mohegan), Public Programs Holly Stewart, Publications standing radio initiative, Molly McCracken, Community Services will Webcast events and interviews Cheryl Wilson, NMAI Webmaster from the festival. With host Gary Farmer Terence Winch, Publications (Cayuga) and technical director Festival Brochure Design Chris Spence (Saulteaux) at Niloo Tehranchi www.buffalotracks.com/avr/

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4 portrays daily life in the Zapotec village The Time When Dreams Melt of Santiago Zoochila, in the mountains of 1996, 14 min. Russia. AUDITORIUM northern Oaxaca, and the customs that knit people together. The Yup’ik of northeastern Chukotka, 7:00–9:30 pm relocated from their villages, have met with assimilation and the loss of their way of life. Warriors Kainayssini Imanistaisiwa: US premiere. The People Go On Introduced by Eric Jordan, Randy Redroad, and Jeremy Torrie. Invited: Loretta Todd (Métis/Cree). 2003, 70 min. Birds of Naukan Canada. Produced in association with the Adam Beach and . 1996, 23 min. Russia. National Film Board of Canada. A Tribute to Rino Thunder The 700-year-old village of Naukan A documentary explores land, memory, has seen its people relocated to the A screening of Haircuts Hurt celebrates and the knowledge of the Kainai, or Russian mainland, but cultural memory the life of a talented New York City Native Blood, people in , using as a remains strong. US premiere. actor. With remarks by Steve Cowley (Cree), catalyst the repatriation of Kainai artifacts American Indian Community House. which only recently have been held in museums. The film’s experimental ele­ The Island Haircuts Hurt ments highlight its concerns with First 2001, 30 min. Russia. Nations history, governance, and survival, Randy Redroad (Cherokee). 1992, 10 min. US. and the living culture. NY premiere. The Inupiat community that once inhabited When a Native American woman and her Big Diomede Island, a long-time meeting young son encounter racial prejudice at a ground for Native people on both sides local barbershop, the soulful flute song of OFFSITE SCREENING of the Bering Strait, has been relocated. Today the island’s only inhabitants are a Native street musician (Rino Thunder) AT THE DONNELL MEDIA CENTER Russian border guards. US premiere. brings her back to center. 20 W. 53rd Street 6:00–9:00 pm Cowboys and Indians: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5 The J. J. Harper Story Arctic Realities AUDITORIUM Norma Bailey. 2003, 89 min. Canada. U.S. premieres of works portraying life 7:00–9:30 pm Producers: Eric Jordan and Jeremy Torrie and change in Arctic communities. Mary (Ojibwe). Produced in association with the Kunuk (Inuit), working with Arnait Video Aboriginal Peoples Television Network and Productions, a women’s collective in Into the Future the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Igloolik, films the life of family members Introduced by Evan Adams, Dustinn Craig, Actors: Adam Beach and Eric Schweig. in Territory, Canada. From Velma Craig, and Jan Padgett. Russia, Aleksei Vakhrushev (Yup’ik) This drama tells the story behind the presents an expressive trilogy that reflects shooting of Native leader John on upheavals experienced by his own I Belong to This Joseph Harper by a policeman, community and others in the past 40 Dustinn Craig (White Mountain Apache). and the struggle to uncover the truth years. Vakhrushev is head of the Center of 2003, 15 min. US. Writer: Velma Craig about his killing. Harper, who dedicated Audio-visual Ethnology and Anthropology, (Navajo). Produced for the PBS series his life to defending Native rights, has Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Matters of Race. become a touchstone for relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. between Natives and non-Natives in A young man’s reflections on raising his chil­ Canada. NY premiere. Introduced by Marie-Hélène Cousineau, dren in their Indian traditions and on his own Mary Kunuk, and Aleksei Vakhrushev. relationship to his childhood community. NY premiere. COLLECTOR’S OFFICE Anaana/Mother Kla Ah Men 7:00–9:30 pm Mary Kunuk (Inuit) and Marie-Hélène Cousineau. 2001, 60 min. Canada. Evan Adams (Coast Salish) and Jan Padgett. Our People In with English subtitles. 2003, 88 min. Canada. Producer: Grace Adams (Coast Salish). Produced by the Introduced by Juan José García and Vivi Kunuk, a woman who practiced tradi­ Sliammon Treaty Society. Loretta Todd. tional hunting and is the mother of eight, including filmmakers Mary and Zach Acclaimed actor Evan Adams debuts as a (Atanarjuat/The Fast Runner), recounts filmmaker in a documentary about his Lhallchho/Our People stories of her remarkable life prior to people, the Sliammon First Nation. Elders Juan José García (Zapotec). 2003, her people’s relocation into government and tribal leaders voice their concerns on 27 min. Mexico. Produced by Ojo de settlements in the 1950s. NY premiere. issues facing the community, most urgent­ Agua Comunicación for the Instituto ly the history-making treaty process being Latinoamericano de Comunicación Educativa. The Seagull’s Flight Against the undertaken by the government of British In Zapotec with English subtitles. Columbia that will affect aboriginal life in Wind Trilogy Canada forever. World premiere. From a grandmother making tortillas at Aleksei Vakhrushev (Yup’ik). dawn to the communal observation of the Produced with the Inuit Center of Native Day of the Dead, this video lovingly Culture in Chukotka, Russia.

4 COLLECTOR’S OFFICE Estos Dolores Somos Llanthupi Munakuy/Loving Each 7:00–9:30 pm Roberto Olivares. 2003, 6 min. Mexico. Other in the Shadows Produced by Ojo de Agua Comunicación. Marcelina Cárdenas (Quechua). 2001, 47 Spirit of the Village In Spanish with English subtitles. min. Bolivia. Produced by CEFREC–CAIB. Introduced by Vincent Carelli, founding This experimental video, based on the In Quechua with English subtitles. director of Video in the Villages, video celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Actors: Aydeé Alvarez and Samuel Vedia editor Mari Corrêa, and Divino Tserewahú. March of the Color of the Earth, pays tribute Callamullo. to the Zapatista movement in Chiapas. US Video in the Villages/Video Aldeias premiere. A village divided against itself sets the has worked closely with Indian communi­ stage for a star-crossed love affair. This ties in Brazil for 20 years, organizing compelling fiction, one of the first from indigenous production workshops. The Ghost Riders the Andes written and directed by a Videomakers associated with the project V. Blackhawk Aamodt (Blackfoot/Lakota/ woman, is based on the oral tradition of have won the top prizes at the recent Mexican). 2003, 58 min. US. Executive the filmmaker’s community, CK’ochas Anaconda Film Festival in Latin America producer and narrator: Benjamin Bratt and the First People’s Festival in Canada. (Quechua). The Bigfoot Memorial Ride, a 300-mile SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7 Marangmotxíngmo Mïrang/From the journey on horseback, is helping the Ikpeng Children to the World Lakota Nation "wipe the tears" shed for the OFFSITE SCREENING Kumaré Txicão (Ikpeng), Karané Txicão massacre of Lakota men, women, and THE CIRCLE OF THE AMERICAN (Ikpeng), and Natuyu Yuwipo Txicão (Ikpeng). children at Wounded Knee in 1896, and INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSE 2002, 35 min. Brazil. Produced by Video for more recent hardships. Participants 404 Lafayette, 8th floor in the Villages. In Ikpeng with English subtitles. convey the ride’s spirit of sacrifice and 7:00–9:00 pm remembrance, and the ’s In Xingu Park in Mato Grosso, four Ikpeng determination to build a better future. Festival Closing Night children, filmed by videomakers from World premiere. their community, introduce their village in a video letter addressed to other children. Introduced by Claus Biegert, Joy Harjo, NY premiere. Winona LaDuke, Lurline MacGregor, and COLLECTOR’S OFFICE Bertram Verhaag. 7:00–9:30 pm Wai’a Rini: The Power of the Dream Eagle Song Divino Tserewahú (Xavante). 2001, 65 min. Love Stories Brazil. Produced by Video in the Villages. Lurline MacGregor (Native Hawaiian). In Xavante with English subtitles. Introduced by Marcelina Cárdenas, 2000, 3 min. US. Produced by Joy Harjo Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Mary Kunuk, (Muscogee Creek). The videomaker documents the Wai’a and Darlene Naponse. celebration, the initiation ceremony of This music video featuring poet and musician Joy the Xavante that introduces the young Harjo celebrates the Native spirit. NY premiere. men to spiritual life. He speaks with his Retrace father and other ceremonial leaders who Darlene Naponse (Ojibwe). 2001, 7 min. Thunderbird Woman—Winona LaDuke stress the role of discipline learned by Canada. Produced by Darlene Naponse Bertram Verhaag and Claus Biegert. the initiates and importance of video in and Jeff Tranchemontagne. 2003, 70 min. Germany. preserving the practices. US premiere. Actors: Lisa Marie Naponse, Daisia In this relaxed and intimate portrait, Nebenionquit, and Randy Pitawanakwat. Winona LaDuke—a leader in the struggle SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 In this experimental short, Ojibwe elder for Native American land rights and sover­ Eddie retraces the past, creating a land­ eignty, environmentalist, vice-presidential AUDITORIUM scape of questions. His reverie weaves candidate, novelist and mother—is filmed 7:00–9:30 pm the memory of his own lost youth with at home on the White Earth Reservation losses experienced by his community. and on the road. NY premiere. Wiping the Tears Ningiura/My Grandmother Introduced by V. Blackhawk Aamodt, Steve Bilich, Terry Murphy and Roberto Mary Kunuk (Inuit) and Marie-Hélène Thunderbird Woman—Winona LaDuke Olivares. Invited: Benjamin Bratt. Cousineau. 2000, 30 min. Canada. Produced by Arnait Video Productions. Manhattan. A Moving Picture Postcard In Inuktitut with English subtitles. Actors: Marie David, Sylvia Ivalu, Steve Bilich. 2002, 13 min. US Charlie Qulitalik, and Rachel Uyurasuka. Actor: Terry “Coyote” Murphy. An Inuit women’s video production group A Native American takes a poetic ride working in the Arctic village of Igloolik through the streets of Manhattan, remi­ crafts a contemporary drama. When niscing about the city’s Native roots and tragedy strikes, an elder calls on age-old absorbing its modern-day essence of Inuit wisdom to help her granddaughter beauty and tragedy. World premiere. weather the crisis. NY premiere.

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 1:00 pm 3:55 pm Aymaranakan Sarawinakapa/ A Cry for Freedom AUDITORIUM Traditional Aymara Democracy Brian J. Francis (Mi’kmaq) and Sam Grana. 10:30 am–5:30 pm Patricio Luna Aguirre (Aymara). 2003, 2001, 24 min. Canada. Eastern Tide series. 29 min. Bolivia. Produced by Centro SAPHI Produced in association with the Aboriginal Community and Autonomy ARU. In Aymara with English subtitles. Peoples Television Network. In English and Mi’kmaq with English subtitles. Introduced by the directors, producers, and This community-produced documentary festival selectors unless otherwise noted. from the Andean highlands introduces This documentary explores a vicious contemporary Aymara cultural practices backlash against treaty rights in Atlantic 10:30 am and examines the system of traditional Canada. Mi’kmaq lobstermen (and Boomtown democracy that has sustained the society women) of the Burnt Church Reserve in despite the colonial presence. NY premiere. New Brunswick talk about their right to Bryan Gunnar Cole. 2002, 56 min. US. fish, upheld by the Canadian Supreme In association with P.O.V./American 1:55 pm Court’s 1999 Marshall decision, and their Documentary. Nuestra Ley/Our Law future as fishermen. US premiere. For the Suquamish Tribe of the Port Bruno Varela Rodríguez. 2003, 27 min. 4:40 pm Madison Indian Reservation in Washington Mexico. Produced by Ojo de Agua State, tribal sovereignty offers a tempting Comunicación for the Instituto Reclaiming Justice: Guerrero’s but limited economic opportunity—the Latinoamericano de Comunicación Indigenous Community Police sale of Fourth of July fireworks. The film Educativa. In Spanish and Zapotec with Carlos Efraín Peréz Rojas (Mixe). 2002, chronicles the daily challenges of making English subtitles. 26 min. Mexico. Produced by the Chiapas a living as well as the high hopes and Media Project–Promedios. In Spanish with Across the state of Oaxaca, Native people high anxiety of fireworks season. English subtitles. are seeking constitutional recognition 11:50 am of their autonomous local governments. In 1995, faced with injustice and corrupt Gaa Minigooyang/ Members of different communities talk local authorities, 42 Mixtec and Tlapanec That Which Is Given to Us about the importance of this aspect of the communities in the state of Guerrero struggle for indigenous self-determination. established the Indigenous Community Lorraine Norrgard. 2002, 58 min. US. US premiere. Police (ICP). Based on the traditional Associate producer James Fortier indigenous justice system, the ICP is (Métis/Ojibwe). Narrator Winona LaDuke 2:45 pm restoring dignity and pride to the commu­ (White Earth Ojibwe). Waasa Inaabidaa/ Voices of the Sierra Tarahumara nities, as well as providing security. We Look in All Directions series. Produced by WDSE-TV, Duluth. Felix Gehm and Robert Brewster. 2002, 52 min. US/Mexico. In Spanish and This episode from a documentary series Tarahumara with English subtitles. on the Ojibwe of the upper Great Lakes focuses on tribal economic life, from tra­ A World Bank forestry project carves log­ ditional subsistence to the mixed boon of ging roads into Tarahumara (or Raramuri) today’s casino gambling enterprises. lands in mountainous Chihuahua, home Interviews with elders, tribal leaders, and of the Sierra Madre’s last remaining historians tell a heartening story of survival. old-growth forest, leaving a legacy of NY premiere. Introduced by the director violence and fear. This is the story of the and Winona LaDuke. Tarahumaras’ decade-long fight against powerful drug lords who burn their forests and steal their land. NY premiere.

Voices of the Sierra Tarahumara Nuestra Ley/Our Law Gaa Minigooyang/That Which Is Given to Us

6 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 on the work of visionary painter Norval 4:00 pm Morrisseau, focuses on the Cree trickster ANIMATIONS FROM OKLAHOMA COLLECTOR’S OFFICE hero Wesakechak. In Wolf Tale, Mother 10:30 am–5:30 pm Wolf teaches her cubs a lesson about power and size with a story about Caribou. The Beginning They Told Tradition Keepers NY premiere. Joseph Erb (Cherokee). 2003, 11 min. US. Produced for the Cherokee Nation. In Introduced by the directors, producers, and 1:30 pm Cherokee with English subtitles. festival selectors unless otherwise noted. American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai‘i The animals living in the sky vault work 2003, 55 min. US. Evann Siebens and together to bring about the creation of the 10:30 am Lisette Marie Flanary. Executive producer: earth from a tiny piece of mud. NY premiere. Qayaqs & Canoes: Cara Mertes. Produced in association with Native Ways of Knowing Pacific Islanders in Communications, The Rabbit’s Tail Independent Television Services, and Bob Jenkins and Jerry Lavine. 2001, 56 P.O.V./American Documentary. Brandee Beaver, Marcus Duvall, Natalie min. US. Produced by the Alaska Native Roberts, Darren Rock, and Kryston Heritage Center (ANHC), Anchorage. Hula, the “heart of the Hawaiian people,” Salsman. 2003, 8 min. US. Produced is celebrated in this view of California’s Native master craftsmen of Alaska build by the American Indian Resource Center vibrant Hawaiian community and three of eight traditional watercraft, some using (AIRC), Tahlequah. In Muscogee Creek its kumu hula, hula masters. Embodying all-but-forgotten techniques. They link with English subtitles. culture and history, the dances taught at legend, history, and personal experiences the hula halau keep the Native Hawaiian Muscogee Creek students at the Morris in the process of passing on traditional spirit alive and growing on the mainland. High School make a claymation of a knowledge. NY premiere. Introduced by traditional story telling how Rabbit lost Steven Alvarez (Mescalero Apache/Yaqui) and 2:40 pm his tail. NY premiere. Cindy Pennington (Sugpiak Alutiiq), ANHC. Lo’Hil K’in/The Taunt Celebration 11:45 am Mariano Estrada Aguilar (Tzeltal). 2003, 18 Mapohiceto/Not Listening How the Fiddle Flows min. Mexico. Produced by the Xinich Comité 2003, 5 min. US. Produced by AIRC, de Defensa de la Libertad Indígena. In Tahlequah. In Muscogee Creek with Gregory Coyes (Métis). 2002, 48 min. Tzeltal and Spanish with English subtitles. English subtitles. Canada. Produced in association with the National Film Board of Canada. The “taunt celebration” documented here A Muscogee Creek story about a boy who is a major Carnival event in Bachajón, doesn’t listen is told through a claymation Traveling Canada’s great rivers, this Chiapas, practiced each year to renew the from Ryal School. NY premiere. documentary traces the evolution of Métis village’s history and identity. fiddling. Born of the music of European 4:30 pm fur traders and the First Nations commu­ 3:10 pm nities they married into, this joyous sound Looking Toward Home is captured here in performances and at A Remarkable Legacy: Saanich Dale Kruzic. 2003, 58 min. US. the artists’ homes. NY premiere. Paul Rickard (Cree). 2001, 25 min. Producers: Conroy Chino (Acoma) and Canada. Finding My Talk series. Produced Beverly Morris (Aleut). Produced in 12:50 pm in association with the Aboriginal Peoples association with Native American Public Stories of the Seventh — Television Network. Telecommunications. Summer Dave Elliott, a Saanich fisherman in British This film takes viewers on an exploration Gregory Coyes (Métis) and Columbia almost single-handedly resurrected of urban Indians in New York, Los (Métis). 2002, 24 min. Canada. Stories of the dying Sencofen language of his people Angeles, and the Bay area, the Seventh Fire series. by creating an alphabet system, recording beginning with a look back at off-reserva­ elders, and developing a language curricu­ tion relocation in the 1950s and ’60s. NY In this episode of a First Nations animation lum for local schools. NY premiere. premiere. Introduced by the director and series, two stories are linked by season. Rosemary Richmond (Mohawk), Director Tales of Wesakechak, with animation based of the American Indian Community House (AICH), and Steve Cowley (Cree), AICH.

The Beginning They Told American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai‘i Qayaqs & Canoes: Native Ways of Knowing

7 NATIVE AMERICAN FILM + VIDEO

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5 2:45 pm The Beginning They Told Voices of the Sierra Tarahumara Joseph Erb (Cherokee) AUDITORIUM AUDITORIUM Felix Gehm and Robert Brewster 2003, 11 min., US 7:00–9:30 pm 7:00–9:30 pm 2001, 52 min., US The Rabbit’s Tail Warriors Into the Future 3:55 pm Morris High School A Cry for Freedom 2003, 6 min., US A Tribute to Rino Thunder: I Belong to This Brian J. Francis (Mi’kmaq) Haircuts Hurt Dustinn Craig and Sam Grana 4:30 pm Randy Redroad (White Mountain Apache) 2001, 24 min., CAN Looking Toward Home (Cherokee) 2003, 15 min., US Dale Kruzic 1992, 10 min., US 4:40 pm 2003, 58 min., US Kla Ah Men Reclaiming Justice: Guerrero’s Cowboys and Indians: (World Premiere) Indigenous Community Police The J.J. Harper Story Evan Adams (Coast Salish) Carlos Efraín Peréz Rojas (Mixe) VIDEO VIEWING ROOM Norma Bailey and Jan Padgett 2002, 26 min., MEX 2003, 89 min., CAN 2003, 88 min., CAN Between the Lines

COLLECTOR’S OFFICE 11:00 am COLLECTOR’S OFFICE COLLECTOR’S OFFICE Ama: La Memoria del Tiempo/ 7:00–9:30 pm 7:00–9:30 pm Tradition Keepers Ama: The Memory of Time Daniel Flores y Ascencio Our People Spirit of the Village 10:30 am (Maya-Nonualco) Qayaqs & Canoes: Native Ways 2002, 63 min., US/EL SAL Lhallchho/Our People Marangmotxíngmo Mïrang: of Knowing Juan José García From the Ikpeng Children Bob Jenkins and Jerry Lavine 12:20 pm (Zapotec) to the World 2001, 56 min., US de la Tierra/ 2003, 27 min., MEX Karané Txicao (Ikpeng), Angels of the Earth Kumaré Txicao (Ikpeng), and 11:45 am Patricio Luna (Aymara) Kainayssini Imanistaisiwa: Natuya Yuwipo Txicao (Ikpeng) How the Fiddle Flows 2001, 40 min., BOL The People Go On 2002, 35 min., BRAZ Gregory Coyes (Métis) Loretta Todd (Métis/Cree) 2002, 48 min., CAN 1:20 pm 2003, 74 min., CAN Wai’a Rini: Jaynelle: It’s Never Easy to The Power of the Dream 12:50 pm Escape the Past Divino Tserewahú (Xavante) Stories from the Seventh Fire: Coleen Rajotte (Cree/Métis) THE DONNELL MEDIA CENTER 2001, 65 min., BRAZ Summer 2002, 48 min., CAN 20 W. 53rd Street Gregory Coyes (Métis) and 6:00–9:00 pm Tantoo Cardinal (Métis) 2:25 pm 2002, 24 min., CAN First Things First Arctic Realities SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 James Diamond (Métis) 1:30 pm 2001, 3 min., CAN Anaana/Mother AUDITORIUM American Aloha: Hula Beyond Mary Kunuk (Inuit) and Hawai’i 2:40 pm Marie-Hélène Cousineau Community and Autonomy Evann Siebens and Yada Yada 2001, 60 min., CAN Lisette Marie Flanary Bennie Klain (Navajo) 10:30 am 2003, 55 min., US 2002, 8 min., US The Seagull’s Flight into Boomtown the Wind Trilogy: Bryan Gunnar Cole 2:40 pm 3:00 pm Aleksei Vakhrushev 2002, 56 min., US Lo’Hil K’in/ Blood River (Yup’ik) The Taunt Celebration Kent Monkman (Cree) 11:50 am Mariano Estrada Aguilar 2000, 23 min., CAN The Time When Dreams Melt Gaa Miinigooyang/ (Tzeltal) 1996, 14 min., RUS That Which Is Given to Us 2003, 18 min., MEX 3:40 pm Lorraine Norrgard Cradlesong Birds of Naukan 2002, 58 min., US 3:10 pm Darlene Naponse (Ojibwe) 1996, 23 min., RUS A Remarkable Legacy: Saanich 2002, 72 min., CAN 1:00 pm Paul Rickard (Cree) The Island Aymaranakan Sarawinakapa/ 2002, 30 min., CAN MEETING ROOM 1 2001, 30 min., RUS Traditional Aymara Democracy Patricio Luna (Aymara) 4:00 pm NHTV/Native Hemisphere 2003, 29 min., BOL ANIMATIONS FROM TV— Forum 1 OKLAHOMA 1:55 pm Mapohicito/Not Listening 11:00 am Nuestra Ley/Our Law Ryal Elementary Reservation Bruno Varela Rodríguez 2003, 5 min., US (World Premiere) 2003, 27 min., MEX David Cherniack 2003, 50 min., CAN FESTIVAL 2003 AT-A-GLANCE

12:30 pm SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7 2:45 pm 3:35 pm One Boy, One Sky If the Weather Permits Boutique of the Damned Lena Carr (Navajo) AUDITORIUM Elisapie Isaac (Inuit) Bently Spang (Northern Cheyenne) 2003, 57 min., US 2003, 28 min., CAN 2002, 6 min., US Strength of the People 1:45 pm 3:30 pm 3:50 pm The Great American Footrace 11:00 am Cortos Taraspanglish/ i scream, floats and Sundays Dan Bigbee (Comanche) Pikutiskwaau/Mother Earth Taraspanglish Shorts Leah Kihara (Native Hawaiian) 2002, 57 min., US Shirley Cheechoo (Cree) Javier Sámano Chong, Juana 2002, 11 min., US 2002, 52 min., CAN Soto Sosa (P’urepecha) and 3:00 pm Aureliano Soto Rita (P’urepecha) 4:15 pm Mi’kmaq Baskets: 12:20 pm 2002, 13 min. MEX/US Dancing on Mother Earth The Tradition Atltzatzilistli/Praying for Water Jim Virga Brian J. Francis (Mi’kmaq) José Luis Matías (Nahua) 4:00 pm 2003, 57 min., US and Sam Grana 2000, 18 min., MEX NEW GENERATIONS 2003, 24 min., CAN In the Days of Drought 1:00 pm Jalon Begay (Navajo) MEETING ROOM 1 3:45 pm Athlii Gwaii: The Line at Lyell 2003, 10 min., US The Seventh Generation Marianne Jones (Haida) NHTV/Native Hemisphere Laura J. Milliken (Ojibwe) and 2003, 47 min., CAN Mervin TV—Forum 2 Jennifer Podemski (Saulteaux) Dega Lazare (Mohawk) 2003, 24 min., CAN 2:00 pm 2001, 20 min., CAN 12:00 pm K’anchariy: To Light the Spirit Mapu Rakiduam/The Other View Reynaldo Yujra (Aymara) 4:45 pm Freddy Treuquil (Mapuche) AUDITORIUM 2002, 45 min., BOL Moccasin Flats and Pablo Villagra (Mapuche) 7:00–9:30 pm Randy Redroad (Cherokee) 2000, 30 min., CHL 3:00 pm 2003, 23 min., CAN Wiping the Tears 12:50 pm Steve Barron El Territorio, Legado de Manhattan. A Moving 2003, 120 min., US VIDEO VIEWING ROOM Nuestros Hijos/The Land: Picture Postcard Our Children’s Legacy (World Premiere) Native Arts and Artists CEFREC-CAIB Steve Bilich COLLECTOR’S OFFICE 2003, 18 min., BOL 2003, 13 min., US 11:00 am New Generations Faithful to Continuance 1:30 pm Estos Dolores Somos David Schneiderman Ser Triqui/Being Triqui Roberto Olivares 11:00 am and Penny Phillips Roberto Olivares 2003, 6 min., MEX Spirit of the Game 2002, 58 min., US 2003, 11 min., MEX Annie Frazier Henry The Ghost Riders (Blackfoot//French) 12:15 pm Esta Tierra Es Nuestra/ (World Premiere) 2003, 48 min., CAN Xulum’chon: Weavers in This Land Is Ours V. Blackhawk Aamodt Resistance from the Highlands Guillermo Monteforte (Blackfoot/Lakota/Mexican) 12:10 pm José Luis (Tzotzil) 2003, 11 min., MEX 2003, 58 min., US NEW GENERATIONS 2003, 16 min., MEX My Three Friends 2:15 pm Crystal Lussier (Ojibwe) Song of the Earth Turix/Dragonfly COLLECTOR’S OFFICE 2002, 30 min., US Jorge (Tzotzil) Byrt Wammack 7:00–9:30 pm 2002, 17 min., MEX 2003, 33 min., MEX Wally’s Video Love Stories Walees Crittenden (Navajo) 1:20 pm 2002, 6 min., US Clay Beings Retrace Nora Naranjo-Morse CLOSING NIGHT Darlene Naponse (Ojibwe) 1:05 pm (Santa Clara) 2001, 7 min., CAN Only the Devil Speaks Cree 2003, 28 min., US THE CIRCLE OF THE AMERICAN Pamela Matthews (Cree) INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSE Ningiura/My Grandmother 2002, 32 min., CAN 2:05 pm 404 Lafayette St., 8th Floor Mary Kunuk (Inuit) and Vis à Vis: Native Tongues 7:00–9:30 pm Marie-Hélène Cousineau 2:00 pm Steve Lawrence 2001, 30 min., CAN NEW GENERATIONS and Phil Lucas (Choctaw) Eagle Song Paiute Indian of the Kern River Valley 2003, 58 min., US Lurline McGregor (Native Hawaiian) Llanthupi Munakuy/ Steve Gonzales (Paiute/ 2002, 3 min., US Loving Each Other in Shoshone/Yokuts/Kumeyaay) 3:20 pm the Shadows 2003, 12 min., US Music Is the Medicine Thunderbird Woman— Marcelina Cárdenas (Quechua) Randy Redroad (Cherokee) Winona LaDuke 2001, 47 min., BOL Composure and Derek Miller (Mohawk) Bertram Verhaag and Claus Biegert Tazbah Chavez (Bishop Paiute) 2003, 5 min., CAN 2003, 70 min., GER 2003, 7 min., US WEEKEND DAYTIME SCREENINGS

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 1:20 pm 3:40 pm Jaynelle: It’s Never Easy to Escape Cradlesong VIDEO VIEWING ROOM the Past Darlene Naponse (Ojibwe). 2003, 72 min. 11:00 am–5:30 pm Coleen Rajotte (Cree/Métis). 2001, 48 min. Canada. Between the Lines Canada. Produced in association with the Actors: Ghislaine Goudreau, Nathan Hunter, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. Shkebe Landry, Lisa-Marie Naponse, Thea Introduced by the directors, producers, and Filmed over two years, Jaynelle chronicles a Pattison, Randy Pitawanakwat, Gertie festival selectors unless otherwise noted. young Sayisi mother’s efforts to build a Manitowabi, Madeline McGregor, Paula better life for herself and two sons. Her story Naponse, Martina Osawamick, Greg 11:00 am is a study in courage and despair, reflecting Tremblay, Liz Wabegjig, and Schuyler Webster. Ama: La Memoria del Tiempo/ her own mother’s fractured history as a Parallel narratives portray a small Native Ama: The Memory of Time member of a community forced to relocate community—its familiar routines, small by the Canadian government. US premiere. Daniel Flores y Ascencio (Maya/Nonualco). joys, and an undercurrent of despair that threatens to erupt into violence. This first 2003, 63 min. US/El Salvador. In 2:25 pm Spanish with English subtitles. feature, produced at the filmmaker’s own First Things First Whitefish Lake First Nation, combines Family members of José Feliciano Ama, James Diamond. 2001, 3 min. Canada. risky young filmmaking with a verité view the leader of Nahua-Pipil indigenous Produced by IMAG/Indigenous Media Arts of northern Native life. NY premiere. peasants during El Salvador’s 1932 Group, . uprising, reflect on his role. Ama and other leaders were executed, and more The director turns the camera on himself to MEETING ROOM 1 than 30,000 indigenous people were call attention to issues of basic human rights 11:00 am–5:00 pm slaughtered in a genocidal reprisal, with for First Nations peoples. NY premiere. consequences for the nation’s history still felt today. NY premiere. 2:40 pm NHTV–Native Hemisphere TV Yada Yada Introduced by the directors, producers, and 12:20 pm Bennie Klain (Navajo). 2001, 8 min. US. festival selectors unless otherwise noted. Los Angeles de la Tierra/ Actor: Stan Henry. A two-day forum on Native Americans in Angels of the Earth television. Forum 1 focuses on Canada Patricio Luna (Aymara). 2001/2003, With a few concise dramatic strokes, this and the United States. Discussion led by 40 min. Bolivia. Producers: Iván Sanjinés short film poses thought-provoking questions Jim Compton (Ojibwe), producer, and Carol and Daniel Gutiérrez (Aymara). Produced about history and racism in a post–9/11 Cornsilk (Cherokee), program director, by CEFREC–CAIB. In Spanish with world. NY premiere. Native American Public Telecommunications English subtitles. (NAPT), US. 3:00 pm Actors: Alfredo Copa and Reynaldo Yujra. Blood River 11:00 am This cautionary tale about the harshness Kent Monkman (Cree). 2000, 23 min. Reservation of city life portrays two brothers from a poor Canada. Producer: Gisèle Gordon. mountain village. Antonio, the elder, has David Cherniack. 2003, 50 min. Canada. left to find a better life in Cochabamba. Actors: Tantoo Cardinal, Jennifer Podemski, Produced in association with VisionTV, Years later, his younger brother Sinchi Brandon Oakes, and Gregg Odjig. Telefilm Canada, APTN. seeks him out, with tragic consequences. Rose, a Native teen at odds with her white At Alkali Lake Reserve, a documentary US premiere. Introduced by the director adoptive mother, fantasizes about what her series follows the daily lives of the tribal and Reynaldo Yujro (Aymara). life might have been with her birth family. leader and many members of the band as The search for identity reveals a brother and they face issues affecting welfare a new understanding of the meaning of family. and the survival of their culture. This is NY premiere. Introduced by the director, the the first of a 5-part series. World premiere. producer and Tantoo Cardinal (Métis).

Ama: La Memoria del Tiempo Los Angeles de la Tierra/Angels of the Earth Cradlesong

10 12:30 pm 3:45 pm 1:00 pm One Boy, One Sky The Seventh Generation Athlii Gwaii: The Line at Lyell Lena Carr (Navajo). 2003, 57 min. US. Laura J. Milliken (Ojibwe) and Jennifer Marianne Jones (Haida). 2003, 47 min. Produced in association with NAPT. Podemski (Saulteaux). 2002, 24 min. Canada. Canada. Producer Jeff Bear (Maliseet). Ravens and Eagles series. Produced in Twelve-year-old Michael explores the A vibrant television series for Aboriginal association with APTN. In English and celestial world of the Navajo people—the youth crisscrosses Canada, bringing to life Haida with English subtitles. beliefs, practices, and creation stories— stories of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit and examines the Western scientific coun­ achievers under the age of 30. This This film is an inspiring portrait of Haida terpart, making a voyage of discovery into episode features an energetic wheelchair elders who, in 1985, blocked a logging his dual cultural heritage. athlete and a lively filmmaker. NY premiere. road on Athlii Gwai (Lyell Island, ) to prevent the destruction of 1:45 pm their ancestral forests. NY premiere. The Great American Footrace SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7 2:00 pm Dan Bigbee, Jr. (Comanche). 2002, 57 AUDITORIUM min. US. Producer: Lily Shangreaux K’anchariy/To Light the Spirit 11:00 am–5:30 pm (Comanche/Oglala Lakota). Produced in Reynaldo Yujra (Aymara). 2002, 45 min. association with NAPT. Strength of the People Bolivia. Produced by CEFREC–CAIB. In A milestone moment in Native American Aymara and Quechua with English subtitles. running is brought to life. Against all Introduced by directors, producers, and In a collective production, an Aymara odds, a grueling 1922 race from Los festival selectors unless otherwise noted. filmmaker follows the Kallawayas, healers Angeles to New York was won by Andy and spiritual leaders of the Chari community Payne, a Oklahoma Cherokee farmboy who 11:00 am of La Paz, to learn about the indigenous entered because, “I just thought I could Pikutiskwauu/Mother Earth reality of the region. Traditional medicine do it.” NY premiere. practices are documented, providing insights Shirley Cheechoo (Cree). 2002, 52 min. into the Kallawaya world view. US premiere. 3:00 pm Canada. In English and Cree with English subtitles. Produced by the Cree School 3:00 pm Mi’kmaq Baskets: The Tradition Board of James Bay. Brian J. Francis (Mi’kmaq) and Sam Grana. Dreamkeeper What does it mean to call the earth our 2003, 24 min. Canada. Eastern Tide series. mother? In memories and stories, Cree Steve Barron. 2003, 120 min. US. Produced in association with the APTN. In elders of northern share their way Produced by Hallmark Entertainment. English and Mi’kmaq with English subtitles. of living, that honors and sustains the Actors: Tantoo Cardinal, Gary Farmer, The ancient and highly developed art of Mother Earth and her healing gifts of life. Michael Greyeyes, Sage, August Mi’kmaq basketry is documented at the NY premiere. Schellenberg, Eddie Spears, Chaske Waycobah First Nation in Nova Scotia, as Spencer, , John Trudell, basket-makers speaking in their native 12:20 pm Sheila Tousey, and Floyd “Red Crow” language reflect on their craft and fashion Atltzatzilistli/Praying for Water Westerman. baskets of split ash, quill, and birchbark. US premiere. José Luis Matías (Nahua). 2003, 18 min. Pete Chasing Horse () Mexico. Produced by Altepetl Nahuas de is an elder storyteller. Shane (Eddie Guerrero. In Nahuatl with English subtitles. Spears), his 16-year-old grandson, who is having trouble with local Native gang mem­ In the Nahua community of Acatlán, Guerrero, bers, lives in a world apart from his elders. the people ask for rain for the yearly harvest. Native American legends come to life in Opening with prayers strengthened by the this television miniseries as the two genera­ sacrifice of chickens, the ritual performance tions embark on a cross-country journey of includes “tiger fights,” masked boxing discovery. NY premiere. Introduced by matches, Tlacololeros who imitate thunder Tantoo Cardinal (Métis), Chaske Spencer and lightning, and Cotlatlastin who invoke the (Lakota) and Sheila Tousey (Menominee). wind and water-laden clouds. NY premiere.

The Great American Footrace K’anchariy/To Light the Spirit Dreamkeeper

11 WEEKEND DAYTIME SCREENINGS

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7 2:00 pm 4:30 pm NEW GENERATIONS: Works presented In the Days of Drought COLLECTOR’S OFFICE by the Owens Valley Center for Career Jalon Begay (Navajo). 2003, 10 min. US. 11:00 am–5:30 pm Development and Training–Talented and A video collage explores the gulf between Never Forgotten. New Generations reservation and urban states of being. Introduced by directors, producers, and Composure 4:45 pm festival selectors unless otherwise noted. Tazbah Chavez (Bishop Paiute). Moccasin Flats 2003, 7 min. US. 11:00 am Randy Redroad (Cherokee). 2002, 23 Spirit of the Game A lively experimental piece from the min. Canada. Producers: Jennifer Bishop Paiute reservation in California. Podemski (Saulteaux) and Laura J. Annie Frazier Henry (Blackfoot/Sioux/ Milliken (Ojibwe). French). 2003, 48 min. Canada. Produced in association with the National Film Paiute Indian of the Kern Valley Actors: Candy Fox, Kristin Friday, Vanessa Board of Canada. Steve Gonzales (Paiute/Shoshone/Yokuts/ Ironeagle, Landon Montour, Mathew Kumeyaay). 2003, 12 min. US. Strongeagle, Nathan Strongeagle, Paulete The Indigenous Olympic Games, held in Poitras, and Justin Toto. Winnipeg, Canada, foster self-esteem, hope In interviews, family elders share their for the future, and connections to a rich experiences and knowledge. A Native youth is caught between his legacy of Native sports for young athletes. chance at a college education and his This eye-opening documentary follows British 2:45 pm conflict with the “home boys.” This Columbia’s outstanding young contenders If the Weather Permits gritty drama reflects the poverty, isolation, on the road to the games. NY premiere. and crime that exist in many urban and Elisapie Isaac (Inuit). 2003, 28 min. rural Indian communities across North 12:10 pm Canada. Produced by the National Film America. NY premiere. Board of Canada. NEW GENERATIONS: Works presented by Ogichidaakweg–In Progress and Indigenous A young, city-based Inuit filmmaker returns to her roots, pondering the relationship VIDEO VIEWING ROOM Action Media. between the Inuit past and the future in 11:00 am–5:30 pm today’s world. In interviews with her My Three Friends extraordinary grandfather and with young Native Arts and Artists Crystal Lussier (Ojibwe). 2002, 30 min. US. people of the community, she finds, perhaps, more questions than answers. NY premiere. Introduced by directors, producers, and This short drama made by Red Lake High festival selectors unless otherwise noted. School students in explores the 3:30 pm lives of three young women growing up on 11:00 am the reservation. Cortos Taraspanglish/ Taraspanglish Shorts Faithful to Continuance: Legacy of the Plateau People Wally’s Video Javier Sámano Chong, Juana Soto Sosa (P’urepecha) and Aureliano Soto Rita David Schneiderman and Penny Phillips. Walees Crittenden (Navajo). 2002, 6 min. US. (P’urepecha). 2002, 13 min. US/Mexico. 2002, 58 min. US. From Big Mountain, Arizona, 12-year-old Produced by Taraspanglish Migrants Video The power and beauty of Columbia River Wally presents a personal view of the Project. In P’urepecha, Spanish, and Native American cultures, whose traditional impact of the Navajo-Hopi Joint Use Area. English, with English subtitles. lands extend from the Cascades to the Selections from a series of informative, Rockies, are traced a look at the work of 1:05 pm musical, and documentary capsules that artists Elaine Timentwa, Joe Fedderson, Only the Devil Speaks Cree explore the migrant experience, immigra­ Pat Courtney Gold, Maynard White-Owl Lavadour, Lillian Pitt, Elizabeth Woody, and Pamela Matthews (Cree). 2002, 32 min. tion issues and rights, and cultural continuity, fisherman Clifford Shippentower. NY premiere. Canada. produced by migrants from P’urepecha communities in Madera, California, and The life of the filmmaker’s mother inspires Michoacán, Mexico. NY premiere. 12:15 pm this piece on the boarding school, an edu­ WORKS FROM CHIAPAS: Introduced by cation in loneliness, intolerance, and abuse 4:00 pm for generations of First Nations people. Alex Halkin, founding director, Chiapas Fictional passages capture Sadie’s experi­ NEW GENERATIONS: Works presented by Media Project-Promedios. Big Soul Productions ences at a religious school, in contrast to Xulum’chon: Weavers in Resistance the film’s life-affirming view of Native Mervin survival. NY premiere. from the Highlands Dega Lazare (Mohawk). 2001, 20 min. José Luis (Tzotzil). 2003, 16 min. Mexico. Canada. In Tzotzil with English subtitles. A string of mishaps plague a young man’s In Chiapas the women of the Xulum’chon efforts to win a date. collective produce weavings to help feed and educate their children and support the autonomy of their Tzotzil communities. US premiere.

12 Song of the Earth 3:50 pm 1:30 pm Jorge (Tzotzil). 2002, 17 min. Mexico. In i scream, floats & Sundays Ser Triqui/Being Triqui Tzotzil with Englisn subtitles. Leah Kihara (Native Hawaiian). 2002, 11 Roberto Olivares. 2003, 11 min. Mexico. Tzotzil elders talk about traditional music min. US. Produced in association with Mexico Multicultural series. Produced by and the role of musicians in the community, Pacific Islanders in Communications. Ojo de Agua Comunicación for the Secretaría de Educación Pública. seen in the annual festival of San Andrés. Three vignettes in different genres— They describe the challenge of passing drama, documentary and music video— A profile of the Triqui village of San on traditions to the young in the face of reflect on Hawaiian women’s experience. Andres Chicahuaxtla, Oaxaca, focuses on the region’s conflict and the allure of pop the role of the community in the success culture. 4:15 pm or failure of bilingual and bicultural edu­ Dancing On Mother Earth cation. US premiere. 1:20 pm Clay Beings Jim Virga. 2003, 57 min. US. Producer: Tula Goenka. Produced in association with Esta Tierra Es Nuestra/ Nora Naranjo-Morse (Santa Clara). 2003, Native American Public Telecomunications. This Land Is Ours 28 min. US. Produced by the School of Guillermo Monteforte. 2003, 11 min. American Research, Santa Fe. This behind-the-scenes look at renowned singer/songwriter Joanne Shenandoah Mexico. Mexico Multicultural series. Seven Pueblo, Navajo, and Hopi clay weaves tour footage, interviews, and Produced by Ojo de Agua Comunicación artists join in a joyous collaboration, mak­ family scenes to present an intimate view for the Secretaría de Educación Pública. ing "Moon Coming at Evening," a giant of her life. A Wolf Clan member of the A decade ago, Nahua people in Guerrero storyteller figure. Each artist brings per­ Oneida Nation of central New York, fought a hydroelectric dam which would sonal style and technique, as well as clay Shenandoah is shown leading a battle for have flooded 22 of their communities. from his or her home, lending a fresh traditional Oneida government and her When the project was revived, it prompted spirit of vitality and sharing to an ancient family’s claim to tribal land. NY premiere. this made-for-television work stressing art form. NY premiere. Introduced by the director, the producer, the Nahuas’ ties to their lands and their and Joanne Shenandoah (Oneida). willingness to defend it. US premiere. 2:05 pm Vis à Vis: Native Tongues 2:15 pm MEETING ROOM 1 Steve Lawrence and Phil Lucas (Choctaw), Turix/Dragonfly 12:00–5:00 pm in association with Nick Torrens, in Byrt Wammack. 2003, 33 min. Mexico. Australia. 2003, 58 min. US. Produced Produced by Yoochel Kaaj. in association with Native American NHTV–Native Hemisphere TV Public Telecommunications. In the state of Yucatán, an eclectic, A two-day forum on Native Americans in multilingual television magazine is being Indigenous performing artists James Luna television. Forum 2 focuses on Bolivia, Chile, produced by workshops of Maya, Zapotec, (Luiseño) and Ningali Lawford (Walmajarri) and Mexico. All works are in indigenous lan­ Mixtec, Tzeltal, and Chol videomakers, compare perspectives on life and society, guages and Spanish with English subtitles. in collaboration with other contributors. using dialogue via satellite, scenes of Discussion led by Jon Alpert, founding US premiere. their performances, and video diaries to director DCTV/Downtown Community TV Center. inform the conversation. NY premiere. 12:00 pm 3:20 pm Spirit of the Game Mapu Rakiduam/The Other View Music Is the Medicine Freddy Treuquil (Mapuche) and Pablo Randy Redroad (Cherokee) and Derek Villagra (Mapuche). 2000, 30 min. Chile. Miller (Mohawk). 2003, 5 min. Canada. Produced by the Colectivo Kurruf Newentuaiñ. Singer and composer Derek Miller and Made in cooperation with urban and rural director Randy Redroad create a land­ Mapuche communities, this bilingual scape video of Miller’s song, described series helps preserve the culture and bring by independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch Mapuche realities to those beyond their as “Hank Williams meets Link Wray.” communities. World premiere. Introduced US premiere. by director Freddy Treuquil and communi­ ty leader José Treuquil (Mapuche.) 3:35 pm Boutique of the Damned 12:50 pm Bently Spang (Northern Cheyenne). 2002, El Territorio: Legado de Nuestros Hijos/ 6 min. US. Produced for the exhibition Territory: Our Children’s Legacy Staging the Indian: The Politics of Representation at the Tang Teaching 2000, 17 min. Bolivia. Produced by CEFREC. Museum, Saratoga, NY. Entre Culturas/Between Cultures series. Performance art and digital animation cre­ This segment of a weekly national Native ate a compelling view of the contemporary public affairs series explores the meaning Native man as a vibrant, defiant, and stylish of land and territory for Bolivia’s indige­ survivor of genocide. NY premiere. nous people, examining cases from Beni Province to illustrate the current legal situation facing the communities.

13 FESTIVAL SUPPORT & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The 2003 Festival has been made possible with public funds from Janu Cassidy, Hawai’i Cultural Foundation the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and Elaine Charnov and Melanie Kent, Margaret Mead Film Festival with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Linden Chubin, Asia Society Jim Compton, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network The Festival is grateful—for the significant impact made on the scope of this Lisa Corriveau, Telefilm Canada year’s Festival—for support received for other 2003 Film and Video Center Jeffrey S. Crossman, Canadian Consulate General programs from The Ford Foundation, the Smithsonian Latino Initiative, the Frederica Dini, Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Italy New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the MetLife Foundation. Thomas Dovidas, Varig Airlines Generous support has also been provided by Ignacio Durán, Cultural Minister, Mexican Embassy, Washington, D.C. , filmmaker Irene García, The Canada Council for the Arts Faye Ginsberg, New York University Barbara Gordon, Hirshhorn Museum of Art and Sculpture Garden Native American Public Telecommunications Carlos Gutiérrez, CinemaTropical Alex Halkin, Chiapas Media Project–Promedios Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers Karen Helmerson and Claude Meyer, New York State Council on the Arts Jim Jarmusch and Sara Driver, filmmakers The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York Sergio Julián Caballero, Ojo de Agua Comunicación, Mexico Carol Kalafatic, International Indian Treaty Council Varig Airlines Jin Jil Kim, Jeollado Restaurant Terry Lawler, New York Women in Film and Television Pacific Islanders in Communications Jeff Lipsky, independent film distributor Marisa Lopez and Hortensia Guerrero, Mexico Tourism Board of New York Barbara and Sally Berger, Museum of Modern Art ADDITIONAL SUPPORT: Mike Mashon, Library of Congress Moving Images Section Aboriginal Voices Radio Christopher McLeod, filmmaker African Diaspora Film Festival Cara Mertes, Cynthia Lopez and Irene Villasenor, P.O.V./American Documentary American Indian Community House Guillermo Monteforte, Ojo de Agua Comunicación, Mexico CEC ARTSLINK Blake More, Point Arena High School Donnell Media Center of The New York Public Library André Morriseau, Aboriginal Voices Radio Downtown Community Television Mario Murillo and Victoria Maldonado, Colombia Media Project Film/Video Arts Marie Nesthus, Donnell Media Center ImagineNative Film Festival Eileen Newman and Duana Butler, Film/Video Arts Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Beth Nussbaum, Hallmark Entertainment Margaret Mead Film Festival Elizabeth Peters and Sonia Malfa, Association of Independent Video Native America Calling and Filmmakers New York University’s Center for Media, Culture and History Louise Profeit-LeBlanc, Sonya Thiessen and Ian Reid, Canada Council New York University’s Center for Religion and Media for the Arts New York Women in Film and Television Heather Rae, filmmaker Pacifika New York Hawaiian Film Festival Rosemary Richmond and Jim Cyrus, American Indian Community House P.O.V./American Documentary Bird Running Water, Sundance Institute Tribeca Film Festival Jaclyn Sallee, Alaska Native Youth Media Institute WGBH-TV, Iván Sanjinés, CEFREC, Bolivia Women Make Movies John Sayles and Maggie Renzi, filmmakers Peter Scarlet and Nancy Schafer, Tribeca Film Festival ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Jason Silverman, writer and consultant With special thanks to the GGHC Board of Directors for their interest John Sirabella, National Film Board of Canada and enthusiasm. Reinaldo Spech, Clemencia Acevedo and Diara N’Daw-Spech, Barbara Abrash, New York University African Diaspora Film Festival Jon Alpert, Downtown Community Television U.S. Ambassador Craig Roberts Stapleton, Prague, Czech Republic Robert Archibald, Australian Consulate General Flo Stone, Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital Jerry Barron, Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Arts Cinematheque Kim Swenson, Mendocino Community Network Berta Benally, Blackfire Russ Tallchief, journalist Francine Berkowitz and Raymond Seefeldt, Smithsonian International Center Carlyn Tani and Annie Moriyasu, Pacific Islanders in Communications Tania Blanich, National Video Resources Diane Taylor, New York University Frank Blythe, Carol Cornsilk and Penny Costello, Native American Public Kim Tomadjoglou, American Film Institute, National Center for Film and Telecommunications Video Preservation Tereza Brdeckova, Febio Fest Film Festival, Czech Republic Paolo Cherchi Usai, George Eastman House Bruni Burres, John Anderson and Kevin Indoe, Human Rights Watch Film Festival Margaret B. Wilkerson and Elizabeth Theobald Richards, Hugo Hirart, Mayra García and Rosa María Annayo, Mexican Cultural The Ford Foundation Institute of New York Tania Willard, Red Wire Magazine David Cáceres, Quechua interpreter Lilie Zendel, Canadian Consulate General Vincent Carelli, filmmaker Deborah Zimmerman, Women Make Movies

14 FESTIVAL DISTRIBUTORS

Ama: La Memoria del Tiempo/ Cradlesong K'anchariy/To Light the Spirit Reclaiming Justice Ama: The Memory of Time V Tape (see Anaana/Mother) Contact [email protected] Chiapas Media Project (ChMP) Huevos Indios Productions 4834 N. Springfield 334 60th St., Brooklyn, NY 11220 A Cry for Freedom Kainayssini Imanistaisiwa: The People Go On , IL 60625 Phone: 718-492-5199 Bear Paw Productions/Grana Productions Inc. NFBC (see How the Fiddle Flows) Phone: 773-583-7728 Email: [email protected] 880 Main St., #210 Email: [email protected] Moncton, NB E1C 1G4 CANADA Kla Ah Men URL: http://promedios.org American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'i Phone: 506-877-2552 Fax: 506-877-2255 Sliammon Treaty Society Bluestocking Films Email: [email protected] C-69, RR #2, Sliammon Rd. A Remarkable Legacy: Saanich 58 East 1st St., Suite #6D, New York, NY 10003 Powell River, BC V8A-4Z3 CANADA Mushkeg Media Phone: 212-505-6676; 888-232-0439 Dancing on Mother Earth Email: [email protected] 103 Villeneuve St. West Fax: 212-505-6676 VisionMaker Video Montreal, PQ H2T 2R6 CANADA Email: [email protected] 1800 N. 33rd St., #B15, Lincoln, NE 68503 Lhallchho/Our People Phone: 514-279-3507 Fax: 514-279-7493 URL: www..org/pov/pov2003/americanaloha/ Phone: 402-472-3522; 800-793-4250 0jo de Agua (see Atltzatzilistli/Praying for Water) Email: [email protected] Fax: 402-472-8675 Anaana/Mother Email: [email protected] Llanthupi Munakuy/ Reservation V Tape URL: www.visionmaker.org Loving Each Other in the Shadows David Cherniack 401 Richmond St. West, #452 Contact [email protected] Email: [email protected] , ON M5V 3A8 CANADA Dreamkeeper Phone: 416-351-1317 Fax: 416-351-1509 Hallmark Entertainment Lo'Hil K'in: The Taunt Celebration Retrace Email: [email protected] 1325 Ave. of the Americas, 21st fl. Contact [email protected] V Tape (see Anaana/Mother) URL: www.vtape.org New York, NY 10019 Phone: 212-977-9001 Fax: 212-977-9049 Looking Toward Home Rocks With Wings Los Angeles de la Tierra/Angels of the Earth Email: [email protected] VisionMaker Video (see Dancing On Mother Earth) VisionMaker Video (see Dancing On Mother Earth) Contact FVC - NMAI URL: www.hallmarkent.com Manhattan. A Moving Picture Postcard Ser Triqui/Being Triqui Athlii Gwaii: The Line at Lyell Eagle Song Steven Bilich 0jo de Agua (see Atltzatzilistli/Praying for Water) National Film Board of Canada (NFBC) Mekko Productions Inc. P.O. Box 1330, Cooper Station 350 Fifth Ave., # 4820, New York, NY 10118 1140-D Alewa Dr., Honolulu, HI, 96817 New York, NY 10276-1330 The Seventh Generation Phone: 212-629-8890; 800-267-7710 Phone: 808-595-8198 Phone: 888-868-5579 Big Soul (see Moccasin Flats) Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] URL: www.nfb.ca URL: www.stevebilich.com Song of the Earth Esta Tierra Es Nuestra/This Land Is Ours ChMP (see Reclaiming Justice) Atltzatzilistli/Praying for Water 0jo de Agua (see Atltzatzilistli/Praying for Water) Mapohiceto/Not Listening 0jo de Agua Comunicación (see The Beginning They Told) Spirit of the Game 2a Cerrada de M. Alcalá 211-a, Col. Díaz Ordaz Estos Dolores Somos Full Regalia Productions Oaxaca, CP 68040 MEXICO 0jo de Agua (see Atltzatzilistli/Praying for Water) Mapu Rakiduam/The Other View P.O. Box 1478, #534 Reed Road Phone: 951-515-3264 Fax: 951-515-3264 Contact [email protected] Gibsons, BC V0N 1V0 CANADA Email: [email protected] Faithful to Continuance Phone: 604-886-0676 Fax: 604-886-7189 URL: www.laneta.apc.org/ojodeagua Mimbres Fever Marangmotxíngmo Mïrang: From the Email: [email protected] 2403 Earl St., Los Angeles, CA 90039 Ikpeng Children to the World Aymaranakan Sarawinakapa/ Phone: 323-669-0761 Fax: 323-669-0711 Video Data Bank Stories From the Seventh Fire Traditional Aymara Democracy Email: [email protected] 112 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Il, 60603 Reel Girls Media Centro SAPHI ARU URL: www.mimbresfever.com Phone: 312-345-3550 Fax: 312- 541-8073 8407 Argyll Road, #204 Calle G.F. de Campos #2025, Z/Asunción El Alto Email: [email protected] , AB T6C 4B2 CANADA La Paz, Casilla 5850 BOLIVIA First Things First Phone: 780-488-0440 Fax: 780-452-4980 Phone: 591-2-719-03655 Video Out Distribution Mervin Email: [email protected] 1965 Main St. V-tape (see Anaana/Mother) URL: www.reelgirlsmedia.com The Backroad Vancouver, BC V5T 3C1 CANADA Craken Films Phone: 604-872-8449 Fax: 604-876-1185 Mi'kmaq Baskets: The Tradition El Territorio, Legado de Neustros Hijos/ 3539 Thaxton Ave. S.E., Albuquerque, NM 87106 Email: [email protected] Bear Paw Productions/Grana Productions Inc. Territory: Our Children's Legacy Phone: 505-232-2619 Fax: 505-232-2619 (See A Cry for Freedom) Contact [email protected] Gaa Miinigooyang/That Which Is Given to Us The Beginning They Told WSDE-TV Moccasin Flats A Thief of Time American Indian Resource Center (AIRC) 632 Niagara Court, Duluth, MN 55811 Big Soul Productions PBS Home Video 328 E. Downing St. Tahlequah OK 74464 Phone: 218-724-8567; 888-563-9373 30 Duncan St., #702 P.O. Box 751089, Charlotte, NC 28275 Phone: 918-456-5581; 800-256-2123 URL: www.wdse.org/pages/shop8.htm Toronto, ON M5V 2C3 CANADA Phone: 877-727-7467 Fax: 703-739-8131 URL: www.aircinc.org Phone: 416-598-7762 Fax: 416-598-5392 URL: www.cherokeegiftshop.com The Ghost Riders Email: [email protected] Thunderbird Woman—Winona LaDuke Paha Sapa Filmworks Denkmal–Films Ltd. Birds of Naukan 173 Lafayette St., #502 Music Is the Medicine Schwindstr.2, 80798 Munich, GERMANY Film-M New York, NY 10013 Contact [email protected] Phone: 49-0-89-52-66-01 Fax: 49-0-89-523-47-42 3rd Proyezd Maryinoy Roschy 5, #41 Phone: 212 219-3102 Fax: 212-219-1999 Email: [email protected] Moscow 129594 RUSSIA Email: [email protected] My Three Friends URL: www.denkmal-film.com Phone: 7-95-938-0600; 7-095-971-3278 In Progress Fax: 7-095-971-3278 The Great American Foot Race 262 East 4th St., #501 St. Paul, MN 55101 The Time Where Dreams Melt Email: [email protected] VisionMaker Video (see Dancing On Mother Earth) Phone: 651-290-2653 Fax: 651-225-8826 Documentary Educational Resources Email: [email protected] 101 Morse Street, Watertown, MA 02472 Blood River Haircuts Hurt URL: www.inprogress.org Phone: 617-926-0491; 800-569-6621 V Tape (see Anaana/Mother) Third World Newsreel Fax: 617-926-9519 545 Eighth Ave., 10th fl. New York, NY 10018 Ningiura/My Grandmother Email: [email protected] Boomtown Phone: 212-947-9277 Fax: 212-594-6417 V Tape (see Anaana/Mother) URL: www.der.org CMIL Email: [email protected] 2000 Center St., 4th fl. Berkeley, CA 94704-1223 URL: www.twn.org Nuestra Ley/Our Law Turix/Dragonfly Phone: 510-642-0460 Fax: 510-643-9271 0jo de Agua (see Atltzatzilistli/Praying for Water) Yoochel Kaaj: CineVideo Cultura Email: [email protected] How the Fiddle Flows Calle 61 No.526 x 66 y 66A Centro Merida National Film Board of Canada (NFBC) One Boy, One Sky Yucatán 97000 MEXICO Boutique of the Damned 350 Fifth Ave., #4820, New York, NY 10118 VisionMaker Video (See Dancing On Mother Earth) Phone: 52-999-9287621 Fax: 52-999-9287621 Bently Spang Productions Phone: 212-629-8890; 800-267-7710 Email: [email protected] 721 North 15th St. Billings, MT 59101 Fax: 212-629-8502 Only the Devil Speaks Cree Phone: 406-252-8870 Fax: 406-252-8870 Email: [email protected] Thunderbird Productions Vis à Vis: Native Tongues URL: www.nfb.ca 12 Appleton Ave. VisionMaker Video (see Dancing On Mother Earth) Christmas at Wapos Bay Toronto, ON M6E 3A3 CANADA Film West Associates Ltd. I Belong to This Phone: 416-657-8238 Voices of the Sierra Tarahumara 300 West 2nd St., Carson City, NV 89703 Contact [email protected] Email: [email protected] CMIL (see Boomtown) Phone: 775-883-8090 Fax: 1-800-570-5505 Email: [email protected] i scream, floats and Sundays Paiute Indian of the Kern River Valley Wai'a Rini/The Power of the Dream Punk Productions OVCDC-TANF (see Composure) Video Data Bank (see Marangmotxíngmo Mïrang) Clay Beings 647 Kunawai Lane, #601 School of American Research Honolulu, HI 96817 Pikutiskwaau/Mother Earth Wally's Video P.O. Box 2188, Santa Fe, NM 87501 Phone: 808-226-1666 Fax: 808-593-9427 Scarlett Media Indigenous Action Media Phone: 505-954-7205 Email: [email protected] 345 av. de l'Hôtel de Ville P.0. 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15 Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

George Gustav Heye Center One Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004 Please Post

NATIVE AMERICAN FILM +VIDEO FESTIVAL 2003 DECEMBER 4–7