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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Native Cinema Showcase August 13 - 19, 2012 presented by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market 12th Annual Welcome and the The combining of NMAI’s Native Cinema Showcase with SWAIA’s Indian Market Classification X highlights the best of Native film 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 films, 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. 5PM (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. 3PM 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 3 4 Hide Away 7:00 p.m. 7PM (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.