Native Cinema Showcase August 13 - 19, 2012 presented by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market

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The combining of NMAI’s Native Cinema Showcase with SWAIA’s Indian Market Classification X highlights the best of Native arts, culminating in the announcement and screenings of the Class X winners on Thursday night. Present Once again we are bringing the Showcase to the Indian The Twelfth Annual Market visitor with free screenings at the New Mexico History Museum. We are pleased to continue this Native Cinema Showcase relationship with an accessible venue and supportive partner. August 13–19, 2012 Both NMAI and SWAIA are appreciative of this year’s programming partnerships: thanks to Sundance Welcome to Native Cinema Showcase, a collaborative Institute’s Native Initiative, Native American Public partnership between the NMAI and SWAIA. Begun Telecommunications, National Geographic All Roads twelve years ago with Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Film Project - Future Voices of New Mexico, and the Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts and Taos Talking imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. Pictures, Native Cinema Showcase continues to evolve in maintaining its purpose in bringing the best Native film On behalf of the SWAIA Indian Market and NMAI boards to Indian Market attendees. Native narrative is millennia and staff, again, welcome. old; film, a relative newcomer. Through film, we hear first-person Native voices. Placing film on the same world- stage as more traditional Native arts exposes a diverse and multi-faceted audience to ever-evolving art forms. Our partnership has grown out of shared goals of education both within and outside the Native community. Importantly, Indian Market generally, and the Showcase specifically, Kevin Gover (Pawnee) acknowledges the growing momentum of Native Director, National Museum of the American Indian filmmaking by creating new educational opportunities while entertaining Indian Market audiences.

There is something for everyone at this year’s Showcase, from children to adults, dramatic to funny, and intimate to less familiar—all providing insight into the complexity Bruce Bernstein, PhD of Native life. In keeping with the missions of our Director, Southwestern Association for Indian Arts organizations, film showings are enhanced by having the filmmakers in attendance to participate in post-screening conversations. Presenting Organizations

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)

The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is Showcase Team dedicated to advancing knowledge and understanding of the Native cultures of the Americas. Two of its NMAI: Melissa Bisagni, Media Initiatives, Program departments, the Film and Video Center (FVC) in New Manager; Elizabeth Weatherford, Head of FVC, York and Media Initiatives in Washington, D.C., produce Program Advisor local, national, and international screening programs throughout the year. FVC also produces NMAI’s SWAIA: Dr. John Torres-Nez (Diné), Deputy hemispheric Native American Film + Video Festival and Director, Jhane Myers NoiseCat (Comanche/Blackfeet), provides information services to educators, filmmakers, Film Project Manager researchers, and the general public about Native media in the Americas, Pacific region, and Arctic Circle.

For information visit www.nmai.si.edu/explore/film-video Collaborating Organizations

SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market Sundance Institute’s Native Initiative Native American Public Telecommunications SWAIA’s mission is bringing Native arts to the world by National Geographic All Roads Film Project - inspiring artistic excellence, fostering education, and Future Voices of New Mexico creating meaningful partnerships. This largest and most imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival important Native arts market displays the work of more than 1000 artists from the US and Canada, representing over 160 tribes. This year marks the 91st Annual SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market, and it takes place on the Plaza and surrounding streets in Santa Fe. Join us for a week Classification X of festive cultural events including the screening of Classification X , book signings at Collected Works Sponsorship Bookstore & Coffeehouse, cultural performances on Santa Fe University of Art and Design the Buffalo Thunder Plaza Stage, Sealaska stage, and Mvskogee Creek Nation the Native Cinema showcase organized by NMAI—all leading up to an exciting weekend of incomparable Native arts at the Santa Fe Indian Market on August 18 and 19. Indian Market is incomparable with so many art forms, tribal styles and traditions along side the cutting edge.

For information visit www.swaia.org Mosquita y Mari 7:00 p.m. / Monday 7PM

Presented by Sundance Institute’s Native Initiative (US, 2012, 85 min.) In English and Spanish with English subtitles Director and screenwriter: Aurora Guerrero Producer: Chad Burris (Chickasaw) World Premiere, 2012 Sundance Film Festival

This coming of age story focuses on a tender friendship and budding romance between two young Chicanas growing up in immigrant households in Los Angeles. Yolanda (Fenessa Pineda), an only child, delivers straight A’s and the hope of the American Dream, while Mari (Venecia Troncoso), the oldest of her siblings, shares economic responsibilities with her undocumented family. Mounting pressures at home collide with their new- found connection, forcing them to choose between their obligations to others and staying true to themselves.

Aurora Guerrero was one of Filmmaker magazine’s 2006 “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” In 2012 she was named a Sundance Institute/Time Warner Fellow for Mosquita y Mari, her first feature film. Guerrero developed this work through grants and fellowships from the Sundance Institute/Ford Foundation (2005), Tribeca All Access (2006), and Film Independent’s Producing Lab (2009). She received her BA from the University of California at Berkeley and her MFA in Film Directing from Cal Arts in Los Angeles.

In person: Aurora Guerrero, Chad Burris, and N. Bird Runningwater (Cheyenne/Mescalero Apache), Director, Native American and Indigenous Program, Sundance Institute

Preceded by: I Lost My Shadow (US, 2011, 3 min.) Director: Nanobah Becker (Navajo) A music video from Laura Ortman’s (White Mountain Apache) second solo album, Someday We’ll Be Together, of encounters on the New York subway, featuring dancer Jock Soto (Navajo).

Nanobah Becker Bio on Pg 10 In person: Nanobah Becker and Laura Ortman

(photo) Mosquita y Mari 1 12 2 Skins 5:00 p.m.

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(US, 2002, 84 min.) Director: Chris Eyre (Cheyenne/Arapaho)

Two brothers, both Vietnam veterans who have returned to the Lakota reservation, find themselves on different paths. Rudy (Eric Schweig) gets a college degree and a job as a tribal police officer, while Mogie (Graham Greene) turns to the alcoholism that has devastated his family. Angry about the destructive effects of American history on the Racing the Rez people of the reservation, Rudy takes matters into his own 3:00 p.m. / Tuesday hands, going on a vigilante quest to save his community.

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Presented by Native American Public Telecommunications (US, 2012, 57 min.) Producer: Brian Truglio

In the rugged canyon lands of Northern Arizona, Navajo and Hopi cross-country runners from two rival high schools put it all on the line for community pride and state-championship glory. Over the course of two racing seasons, the boys strive to find their place in their own Native communities, and in the American culture surrounding them. Win or lose, what they learn will have a dramatic effect on the rest of their lives.

For the past fourteen years, producer Brian Truglio has worked predominantly as a video editor on documentaries for television, including PBS, the History Channel, and the Discovery Channel. Truglio is also a long-distance runner and former cross-country athlete with close ties to the Navajo and Hopi reservations that began when he visited in the early 1990s as part of a teaching program run by his college. He holds an MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York.

In person: Brian Truglio

(photo above) Racing the Rez (right) Skins

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(US, 2011, 88 min.) Director: Chris Eyre (Cheyenne/Arapaho) World Premiere and Winner of Best Cinematography, 2011 SXSW Film Festival

While running away from his tragic past, a man known as The Young Mariner (Josh Lucas) finds an idyllic harbor in the Great Lakes. There he buys the dilapidated sailboat Hesperus and sets to work to restore it. Over the next year, the boat and community around the harbor become his greatest support as he struggles to rebuild his life.

Chris Eyre (Cheyenne/Arapaho) has been described as “the preeminent Native American filmmaker of his time” by People magazine. The first contemporary feature film by a Native director was Eyre’s breakthrough Smoke Signals, which won him the Filmmaker’s Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. Eyre has directed and produced other award-winning features, including Skins and Edge NAPT Case Study: Injunuity of America. In 2007 he was selected for both the United 11:00 a.m. / Wednesday States Artists Fellowship and the Bush Foundation Artists 11A M Fellowship in Film/Media Arts. In addition to his work in independent film, Eyre has directed numerous episodes for television series, including Law and Order: SVU, Friday Calling All Filmmakers Night Lights, and the PBS series Mystery! and American Program running time: 90 minutes Experience: We Shall Remain. He has recently been appointed head of the film department at the University of What does it take to produce a successful documentary Santa Fe. for PBS? Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT) will present a case study that will take participants In person: Chris Eyre through the process of funding, delivery, and community engagement to increase the capacity of the film to impact change. Learn more about NAPT resources that go far beyond funding. Filmmakers, producers, educators using media, and tribal community members are encouraged to attend.

(photo left) Hide Away (above) Injunuity Producer/Director Adrian Baker (below) Injunuity: Tongues

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Introduced by Leonda Levchuk (Navajo) Total running time: 73 minutes The Navajo Nation has produced some of the most exciting and successful Native filmmakers of the past decade. Join us for a program of short films, and talk with the artists who made them.

The 6th World (US, 2012, 15 min.) Director: Nanobah Becker (Navajo) Navajo astronaut Tazbah Redhouse is a pilot on the first spaceship sent to colonize Mars, but a mysterious dream the night before departure haunts the journey.

Run Red Walk: A Navajo Sheepdog (US, 2010, 16 min.) In Navajo with English subtitles Director: Melissa Henry (Navajo) A red sheepdog’s search for his lost sheep takes him across the hills and hollows of the rez. Along the way he meets some unusual characters.

Hoverboard SWAIA Class X Winner (US, 2012, 6 min.) 2012 Director: Sydney Freeland (Navajo) After watching Part II, an imaginative young girl and her stuffed teddy bear try to make a working hoverboard.

The Way Things Are (US, 2011, 15 min.) Director: D.E. Hyde (Navajo) A jaded Marine returns home to the reservation to find a culture war being waged between the old ways and the new.

(photos right, top to bottom) The 6th World Run Red Walk: A Navajo Sheepdog Hoverboard The Way Things Are

7 8 Floating (US, 2008, 10 min.) Director: Blackhorse Lowe (Navajo) A redundant conversation reaches epic proportions.

Interview with Einstein (US, 2012, 9 min.) Director: Velma Kee Craig (Navajo) When their dog, Einstein, starts talking, the family decides to shoot a documentary.

The directors will be present for an extended Q&A following the screening.

Nanobah Becker (Navajo) has been awarded fellowships for script development by Project: Involve, Tribeca All Access, and Sundance/Ford Foundation. In 2011 I Lost My Shadow won the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival’s award for Best Music Video.

Melissa Henry’s (Navajo) animal trilogy in the Navajo language has garnered her many awards, including New Visions/New Mexico, All Roads Seed grants, and a Sundance/Ford Foundation Fellowship.

Sydney Freeland (Navajo) has directed short films with the InterTribal Entertainment Program, and is currently developing her first feature, Drunktown’s Finest, as a participant in Sundance Institute’s Screenwriters and Directors Labs.

D.E. Hyde (Navajo) makes his directing debut with The Way Things Are, developed at the Sundance Native FIlm Lab.

Blackhorse Lowe (Navajo) is known for his edgy films set on the Navajo reservation, including short works and his first feature, 5th World. He was awarded a New Visions/New Mexico grant to produce Shimásání, which won Best of Show in the 2010 Indian Market.

Velma Kee Craig’s (Navajo) short works cast a light on the interactions between Navajo and the outside world. She and her husband, filmmaker Dustinn Craig, are co- directors of White Springs Creative LLC.

(photos left, top to bottom) Floating Interview with Einstein

9 10 Future Voices of New Mexico Canes of Power 4:00 p.m. / Wednesday 7:00 p.m. / Wednesday 4PM 7PM

Introduced by Conroy Chino (Acoma) Introduced by Marcella Ernest (Bad River Band of Ojibwe), (US, 2012, 52 min.) Project Director, Future Voices of New Mexico Producers: Pam Pierce and Nick Durrie Program running time: 90 minutes Associate producer: Dr. Matthew Martinez (Ohkay Owingeh) Associate producer: Conroy Chino (Acoma) The second annual Future Voices of New Mexico Native Produced by Silver Bullet Productions Youth Film Festival showcases and awards prizes for Narrator: Wes Studi (Cherokee) outstanding film and video by young emerging filmmakers. The festival is produced by Future Voices of New In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln presented silver- Mexico, an organization working with indigenous and headed canes to each of New Mexico’s eighteen Pueblos. underrepresented communities to encourage high school Today these canes remain potent symbols of continuing students to tell stories through film and photography. sovereignty. Why did this war-weary president, a leader of Future Voices is a collaborative project of the National an Indian policy that destroyed many tribal communities, Geographic All Roads Film Project, Lensic Performing choose this action? Canes of Power offers a glimpse Arts Center, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, and into the connection between Lincoln and the Pueblos, Indigenous Language Institute. and the authority the Lincoln Canes continue to hold. This documentary is part of an educational initiative by For information visit www.futurevoicesofnewmexico.org Silver Bullet Productions that encourages Native youth to research their community history as well as develop their writing and filmmaking skills.

Discussion to follow with Pam Pierce and Nick Durrie; Dr. Matthew Martinez, Historian and Director of Research; and Maura Dhu Studi, Screenwriter

Pamela Pierce is founding partner, CEO, and president and co-chair of Silver Bullet Productions. With training in law, education, and child advocacy, Pierce specializes in children’s issues and in mediation. Pierce has served on the Governor’s Council for Media in New Mexico.

Nick Durrie is executive vice-president and co-chair of Silver Bullet Productions. During his 40 years of film and video production, he has served as president, CEO, and CFO of television production companies such as National Geographic Television, ABC Network, Walt Disney Co., Time-Life Films, and also several independents. Durrie currently serves as chairman of the board of the Santa Fe Film Festival.

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The Medicine Game 1:00 p.m. / Thursday 1PM

Sneak Preview Presented by Native American Public Telecommunications on behalf of the American Graduate initiative (http://americangraduate.org) (US, 2012, 64 min.) Director/Co-producer: Lukas Korver

For Jeremy and Jerome Thompson, brothers from the Onondaga Nation in New York, the sport of lacrosse is more than just a game—it’s part of their Iroquois heritage. They are pinning their hopes on their skill in the sport to take them to Syracuse University, a school with fourteen national team championship wins in lacrosse. With their Skateboard Nation college dreams nearly within reach, the boys are caught 3:00 p.m. / Thursday up in a constant struggle to define their Native identity, live 3PM up to their family’s expectations, and balance challenges on and off the reservation. (US, 2011, 51 min.) Lukas Korver has worked internationally for ten years as Director: Martha Conboy a professional cinematographer. He filmed the acclaimed Producer: Smithsonian Networks Vans series Pass the Bucket, about the humanitarian work of celebrated athletes and musicians. His directorial Explore the underground movement that is helping Native debut was Unfiltered: The Story Behind the Rivalry, the American youth throughout the US soar above life’s chal- feature-length documentary about Olympic championship lenges one half-pipe at a time. Skateboarding is increas- swimmers Michael Phelps and Ian Crocker. ingly popular on reservations as well as urban areas, cultivating athletes, artists, entrepreneurs, and mentors. From the streets of Albuquerque to New York City, from In person: Lukas Korver and Jeremy Thompson Washington, D.C., to Pine Ridge, the sport is fueling a new form of self-expression and pride.

Martha Conboy is an independent editor and producer whose films have won several Emmys, a DuPont Columbia Journalism Award, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Short Subject. As an executive pro- ducer, she has supervised programming for The Learning Channel and for the National Geographic Channel.

In person: Albuquerque’s Westside Boyz

(photo left) The Medicine Game (above) Skateboard Nation

13 12 14 Indian Market’s Class X Winners 7:30 p.m. / Thursday Path Waves: Youth Shorts Program 5:30 p.m. / Friday - Repeat 12:00 p.m. / Friday 730 530 12PM PM PM SWAIA Total running time: 55 minutes Class X Winner 2012 Total running time: 144 minutes Amaqqut Nunaat: Sponsored by Santa Fe University of Art and Design The Country of Wolves (Canada, 2011, 14 min.) This special program features the Santa Fe Indian Market Director: Neil Christopher; Producer: Louise Flaherty (Inuit) moving image Classification X winners. This category In this haunting Inuit tale, two brothers face danger in a is the tenth and one of the most recent classifications to strange land. be added to the juried market. Awards for Narrative Short, Documentary Short, Animation Short, Experimental Because of Who I Am Short, and for the first time, Feature Film, recognize an (US, 2011, 4 min.) artist’s dedication and skill in working with new media Director: Marcella Ernest (Bad River Band of Ojibwe) and innovative art forms while retaining a commitment An artist challenges notions of what a Native woman is to traditional creation and technique. Three screenings supposed to be. will be presented, each followed by a Q&A with the Classification X winners, moderated by Jhane Myers NoiseCat (Comanche/Blackfeet), Film Project Manager. Grumpy Old Man (US, 2010, 1 min.) Two screenings will be presented. Director: Tristan Craig (White Mountain Apache/Navajo) Class X Winners 2012 A little boy’s take on his world. Narrative Short (Fiction) Hoverboard Sydney Freeland (Navajo) Hoverboard SWAIA Class X Winner (US, 2012, 6 min.) 2012 Animation Neil Discovers the Moon Director: Sydney Freeland (Navajo) Steven Judd (Kiowa/Choctaw) An imaginative young girl and her stuffed teddy bear try Experimental For Ayaina to make a working hoverboard. Marcella Ernest (Bad River Band of Ojibwe) Feature Mesnak How the Chipmunk Got Its Stripes Yves Sioui-Durand (Huron-Wendat) (US, 2011, 3 min.) Music Video The Storm Directors: Students of the Tulalip Heritage School Steven Judd (Kiowa/Choctaw) A traditional tale told in lightbox animation. Documentary Short A Return Home Ramona Emerson (Navajo) (below) Because of Who I Am

Youth Winners 2012 Under 9 Cupcakes: With a Vengeance Kaiden Finkbonner (Lummi) Longhouse Media

10 -13 Night at an Indian Museum Sean Sikora (Cherokee Nation)

14-17 Live Free or Cupcake Roy Moon Jr (Lummi) Longhouse Media

15 16 Neil Discovers the Moon SWAIA Class X Winner (US, 2011, 1 min.) 2012 Director: Steven Judd (Kiowa/Choctaw) Neil discovers more than just the moon.

Chased: Version #2 (US, 2011, 4 min.) Directors: SuperFly 2011 - Group 2 Mentor: Rose Stiffarm (Blackfoot/Tsartlip/Cowichan/Cree/ Gross Ventre/Assiniboine/Sioux) A sinister figure pursues a young girl, but what does he really want?

Super Brotha: Urban Surfing (Australia, 2011, 3 min.) Director: Rima Tamou (Bulgunnwarra/Nga Ruahine Rangi) Ungainly Super Brotha is one-upped by his mom’s skateboard stylings.

White Washed (US, 2011, 3 min.) Director: Caytlyn Isham (Ojibwe) A provocative video poem about living in two worlds.

Interview with Einstein (US, 2012, 11 min.) Director: Velma Kee Craig (Navajo) When their dog, Einstein, starts talking, the family decides to shoot a documentary.

Injunuity: Buried and Injunity: Tongues (US, 2012, 3 min. each) Producer/Director: Adrian Baker (Hopi/Filipino/German/Welsh/Choctaw) Two selections from a documentary that mixes animation, music, and real audio from Native perspectives. Presented by Native American Public Telecommunications on behalf of the American Graduate initiative (http://americangraduate.org).

In person: Adrian Baker, Velma Kee Craig, Tristan Craig, Steven Judd, Tracy Rector, SuperFly 2011 - Group 2 Film Makers, Rose Stiffarm

(photos left top to bottom) How the Chipmunk Got Its Stripes Neil Discovers the Moon Chased: Version #2 Injunuity: Tongues 17 12 18

Shouting Secrets SWAIA Class X Honorable Mention 8:30 p.m. / Friday 2012 830 PM (US, 2011, 88 min.) Director: Korinna Sehringer Writers: Mickey Blaine, Tvli Jacob (Choctaw), and Steven Judd (Kiowa/Choctaw) World Premiere, 2011 American Indian Film Festival

June is a loving wife and a support to her three grown children. But when she falls ill, the confused and quarreling siblings and their misunderstood father are left to cope with her illness, and with each other, in the tight confines of the hospital and at the family home on the reservation.

Korinna Sehringer has worked as a producer, director, and writer in both film and television. Her five short films, screened widely at film festivals, have won thirteen awards, including awards for best film, best directing, and audience choice. Shouting Secrets is her first feature film. Sehringer studied at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, where she currently lives.

In person: Korinnna Sehringer, lead actor Chaske Spencer (Lakota), and screenwriter Steven Judd

Preceded by: The Storm SWAIA Class X Winner (US, 2011, 5 min.) 2012 Director: Steven Judd (Kiowa/Choctaw) In this music video, Seminole musicians Zack “Doc” Battiest and Spencer Battiest perform their 2011 single “The Storm.” The song and the video were created as a tribute to the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and as an homage to the singers’ parents, grandparents, and tribal leaders.

During the 2011 Indian Market, Steven Judd (Kiowa/ Choctaw) was featured as a screenwriter in the Native Cinema Showcase, and his short fiction, Search for the World’s Best Indian Taco, won Best Narrative Short in Classification X. Judd was guest artist at the 2012 NMAI/ Tribeca Film Institute’s Youth Screening Series in New York. He is currently working on a new feature, Six Pack and Gas Money.

(photo left) Shouting Secrets 19 20 imagineNATIVE Shorts 12:00 p.m. / Saturday

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Presented by imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival Introduced by Jason Ryle (Saulteaux), Executive Director Total running time: 70 minutes

Since 2007 the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival has commissioned new work from Canadian Aboriginal artists. This program features ten of these commissions, some by Canada’s leading media-makers and others by emerging filmmakers. This program includes the project’s first sound art commission, and a collaboration by indigenous youth from different continents. The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival features works by world indigenous artists and takes place October 17–21, 2012, in Toronto.

Moss Origins (Canada, 2011, 8 min.) Director: Jennifer Dysart (Cree/German/Canadian) A woman encounters meanings in the moss messages that bridge the gap between the city and the forest.

eu· tha· na· sia (Canada, 2008, 6 min.) Director: Jani Lauzon (Métis) An Aboriginal girl leaves her home to attend residential school.

Savage (Canada, 2009, 6 min.) Director: Lisa Jackson (Ojibwe) An inventive take on the trauma of boarding school for Native people.

Seven Seconds (Canada, 2010, 13 min.) Director: Michael Greyeyes (Cree) A dancer faces the loss of her hearing.

(photo right above) Moss Origins (below) Seven Seconds

21 22 Digital Smoke Signals (Canada, 2011, 3 min.) Participants: Judith Schuyler, Cecily Jacko, Lucy Brown, and Eugene Hendiks A stop-motion animation celebrates indigenous cultural icon Buffy Sainte-Marie. Created during the 2011 Aboriginal People’s Collaborative Exchange between Khoi- San youth from South Africa and First Nations youth from Toronto.

TOMORROW (Canada, 2007, 5 min.) Director: Michelle Latimer (Métis) Life-altering news forces a young woman to make a difficult decision.

Honey for Sale (Canada, 2009, 7 min.) Director: Amanda Strong (Métis) The tenuous life of the honeybee sheds light on human fragility.

Pride (Canada, 2011, 3 min.) Director: Keelan Keeshig (Ojibwe) A young man recounts the pressure he faced to cut his long hair.

freek¡Üwhency (Canada, 2011, 8 min.) Director: Janet Rogers (Mohawk/Tuscarora) Sound compositions, interviews, and sound poetry evoke the “spirit of radio.”

?E?anx/The Cave (Canada, 2009, 11 min.) Director: Helen Haig-Brown (Tsilhqot’in) A hunter discovers a portal to the spirit world.

In person: Janet Rogers

(photo right top to bottom) TOMORROW Honey for Sale Pride freek¡Üwhency

23 24 The 1491s 7:00 p.m. / Saturday * PROGRAM AT WAREHOUSE 21 1614 Paseo De Peralta, (505) 989-4423 warehouse21.org 7PM

The 1491s is a sketch-comedy group, based in the wooded ghettos of Minnesota and buffalo grass of Oklahoma. They are a gaggle of Indians chock full of cynicism and splashed with a good dose of indigenous satire. They coined the term “All My Relations” and are still waiting for the royalties. They were at Custer’s Last Stand. They mooned Chris Columbus when he landed. They invented bubble gum. The 1491s teach young women how to be The Daughter of Dawn strong, and teach young men how to seduce these strong 3:00 p.m. / Saturday women. 3PM The 1491s presents a curated show of not just their own snarky videos, but videos hand-picked from all that NDN Special Work-in-Progress Screening Country has to offer in the previously uncharted territories Presented in co-operation with the Oklahoma Historical Society, known as the Web. Get up close and personal with the a Smithsonian affiliate in Oklahoma City 1491s including Dallas Goldtooth (Dakota/Diné), Sterlin Introduced by Wes Studi (Cherokee) Harjo (Seminole/Creek), Migizi Pensoneau (Ponca/ (US, 1920, 77 min.) Ojibwe), Ryan Red Corn (Osage), and Bobby Wilson Director: Richard E. Banks (Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota/Standing Rock Lakota).

Post-presentation discussion moderated by writer Shot in the summer of 1920 in The Wichita Mountains Sierra Ornelas (Navajo). Wildlife Refuge, The Daughter of Dawn boasted a cast (photo left) The Daughter of Dawn of over 300 Kiowa and Comanche actors and is thought (below) The 1941s to be the first feature film shot entirely in Oklahoma. This feature length black and white narrative was lost to audiences until a nitrate copy found its way to the Oklahoma Historical Society. Now, in the midst of a painstaking restoration, which includes a new score composed by David A. Yeagley, this special screening is presented with live, running commentary from leading Kiowa and Comanche traditionalists Geneva Navarro (Comanche), Jeri Ah-Be-Hill (Comanche/Kiowa), and Jhane Myers (Comanche/Blackfeet); and the Oklahoma Historical Society’s director, Bob Blackburn, Ph. D.

25 26 My Louisiana Love Run to the East 11:00 a.m. / Sunday 1:00 p.m. / Sunday

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Presented by Native American Public Telecommunications Presented in cooperation with the 2012 Wings of America 5K Run (US, 2012, 66 min.) (US, 2011, 87 min.) Director: Sharon Linezo Hong Director: Henry Lu Producers/Writers: Sharon Linezo Hong and Monique Verdin (Houma) Run to the East follows three American Indian high Monique Verdin returns to southeast Louisiana to reunite school seniors. Chantel “Tails” Hunt (Navajo), Thomas with her family and quickly realizes that the Houma Martinez (Navajo), and Dillon Shije (Zia Pueblo) have people’s traditional way of life—fishing, trapping, and overcome every obstacle in their personal lives and in hunting in the fragile wetlands—is being threatened by their communities to become elite cross-country runners, a cycle of man-made environmental crises. Hurricane and all three are determined to succeed. During their final Katrina and the BP oil leak are just the latest rounds in this year, they compete against runners from more privileged century-old cycle that is forcing Monique’s clan to adapt in schools as they vie for college scholarships and a chance new ways. Monique must overcome the loss of her house, to explore opportunities off the rez. her father, and her partner, and redefine the meaning of home. Henry Lu is a filmmaker with Moxie Pictures in New York. His short films set in Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, and Tokyo Sharon Linezo Hong has completed several short personal have played at film festivals, including Sundance, Mill and industrial films. Her passion for films grew in part from Valley, Sydney, and the Worldwide Short Film Festival in her experience working as a cooperative member of San Toronto. Run to the East is Lu’s first feature-length film. Francisco’s Red Vic Movie House. Hong was raised in a small town along Florida’s Gulf Coast and studied film at In person: Dustin Martin (Navajo), Director, Massachusetts College of Art and Design. My Louisiana Wings of America, Chatel “Tails” Hunt Love is her first full-length documentary. (photo below) Run to the East In person: Sharon Linezo Hong and Monique Verdin

Preceded by: Handmade Portraits: The Bone Carver and Handmade Portraits: Mabel Pike (US, 2012, 4 min. each) Director: Tara Young Iñupiat carver Sylvester Ayek and Tlingit beadworker Mabel Pike are profiled in these short films that were made for the online craft market Etsy.

Tara Young is a Senior Video Producer for the Etsy blog and has directed and edited numerous arts-related documentary pieces for The Sundance Channel, The Criterion Collection and VBS.

In person: Tara Young

27 28 Mesnak SWAIA Class X Winner 3:00 p.m. / Sunday 2012 *r Fo mature audiences 3PM

(Canada, 2011, 96 min.) In French and Innu with English subtitles Director: Yves Sioui Durand (Huron-Wendat) Producer: Ian Boyd World Premiere, 2011 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

When he unexpectedly receives a photo of his birth mother, young actor Dave Brodeur (Victor Andres Turgeon-Trelles) leaves Montreal and his repertory work on Shakespeare’s Hamlet for the desolate reserve community of Kinogamish in search of his Native history and culture. He finds his mother is on the verge of marrying the town’s chief (and fellow recovering alcoholic), who is basking in the proceeds from a logging deal. With the help of a local sage and friend of Dave’s long-dead father, Dave uncovers secrets that destabilize the town’s balance of power and explain his own past.

Yves Sioui Durand (Huron-Wendat) is a writer, actor, and theater director who has developed a unique body of indigenous work. In 1985, he co-founded Odinnok, the first Aboriginal French-language theater in Quebec. He has also produced twelve teleplays for Radio-Canada. Mesnak, his first feature film, is based on his 2004 theatrical play, Hamlet, Le Malécite.

In person: Yves Sioui Durand and Ian Boyd

Preceded by: Reviens Moi (US, 2012, 11 min.) Director: Tracy Rector (Seminole) Memories from the past ignite a young man’s yearning for his childhood sweetheart.

Tracy Rector (Seminole) is the executive director and co- founder of Longhouse Media and its youth media project, Native Lens. She also runs Longhouse’s annual youth filmmaking workshop, SuperFly. She is a Native education specialist who in 2008 received Antioch University’s Horace Mann Award for her work in empowering Native youth.

(photo right) Mesnak 29 30 Showcase Thanks

www.nmhistorymuseum.org

www.sundance.org www.sundance.org/programs/native-lab-fellowship

www.okhistory.org

events.nationalgeographic.com/events/all-roads/future-voices Principal Chief Tiger of the Mvscogee (Creek) Nation www.muscogeenation-nsn.gov

www.imaginenative.org

www.santafeindependentfilmfestival.com

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Santa Fe University of Art and Design www.santafeuniversity.edu The FNX Channel celebrates the lives and cultures of Native American and indigenous people around the world. FNX is currently available on Directv in southern California and Verizon Fios in the greater Los Angeles area. The team at FNX is working diligently to broadcast the channel nationally over-the-air, on cable platforms and over the Internet. We plan to be available in your area very soon! www.warehouse21.org For more information, please visit www.fnx.org Film Schedule August 13 – 19, 2012 12.30 pm 12.30 130am a 0 11.3 4.30 pm 6.30 pm 6.30 8.30 pm 8.30 2.30 pm 2.30 3.30 pm 3.30 5.30 pm 5.30 1.30 pm 1.30 .30 m p 0 3 7. 12 pm 12 1 m 11a 9 pm 5 pm 4 pm 3 pm 2 pm 1 pm 6pm 8pm 7pm Mosquita y Mari (pg.2) yMari Mosquita Mon, August 13 August Mon,

Hide Away (pg.5) Away Hide Skins (pg.4) Rez (pg.3) the Racing Tu e, August 14 August e,

Navajo Paradiso! Navajo ps -0) 7-10 (pgs. Injunuity (pg.6) Injunuity Study: Case NAPT Canes of Power (pg.12) Power of Canes New Mexico (pg.11) Mexico New of Voices Future We d, August 15 August d,

Th (pg.13) The Medicine Game (pg.14) Skateboard Nation Class X Winners (pg.15) XWinners Class ur, August 16ur, August

Shouting Secrets (pg.20) (repeat) (pg.15) Class X Winners rga ps1 1 ) -18 (pgs.16 Program Shorts Youth Waves: Path Fr i, August 17 August i,

(pgs.21-23) Shorts imagineNATIVE * The 1491s WAREHOUSE 21 (pg.26) WAREHOUSE (pg.25) Dawn of Daughter The PROGRAM AT PROGRAM Sa t, August 18 t, August

Su My Louisiana Love (pg.27) Love Louisiana My Run to the East (pg.28) East the to Run Mesnak (pg.29) Mesnak n, August 19 August n, Showcase Information

All screenings will take place at the New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) and are FREE.

Seating is on a first come, first served basis. All programs subject to change.

Museum location: 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe. (505) 476-5200 www.nmhistorymuseum.org Native

Further information: americanindian.si.edu Cinema Showcase swaia.org New Mexico History Museum August 13 - 19, 2012

presented by the Smithsonian’s National Museum W Marcy Street of the American Indian and SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market

Sheridan Street

Lincoln Avenue

Washington Avenue Santa Fe W Palace Avenue Plaza W San Francisco Street

Water Street

Don Gaspar Avenue

Shelby Street

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