Notional Museum of the American Indian Native American F lm+Video Festival 1997 Festival Information: NMAI Administration Electronic Media Project Team All festival programs are free. W. Richard West (Southern Marty Kreipe de Montaño Seating is limited and for all day­ Cheyenne), Director (Prairie Band Potawatomi), Head time programs is based on a first of Resource Center come, first served basis. Charlotte Heth (Cherokee), Reservations must be made for Assistant Director for Public Alfreda Beartrack (Lower Brule evening programs held at NMAI Programs Sioux), Film and Video Center and at the American Indian Community House, and for Native John Haworth (Cherokee), Deputy Gaetana de Gennaro (Tohono America Calling broadcasts at the Assistant Director for Public O’odham), Resource Center Museum of Television & Radio. Programs, GGHC NMAI Charter Members are given Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy, Web priority for reservations made Festival Directors consultant before October 17th. Call 212-514­ Elizabeth Weatherford, Head of 3737 for information and Film and Video Center Radio Program Project Team reservations. Charmaine Jackson (Diné), Film Emelia Seubert, Assistant Curator and Video Center To request assistance for the hearing impaired, call festival Festival Guest Selectors Nan Rubin, radio consultant and information (212-514-3737) by Paul Apodaca (Navajo-Mexican), board member, NAPT October 1st. curator and professor High School Program Visit our Web site at Juanita Espinosa (Dakota-Ojibwe), Project Team www.si.edu/nmai_film+video and Director, Native Arts Circle Johanna Gorelick, Head of the NMAI’s live Web site at Education Department, NMAI www.conexus.si.edu. Alberto Muenala (Quichua), independent filmmaker Kristi Schultz, High School Directions: Program Coordinator The National Museum of the Shelley Niro (Mohawk), inde­ American Indian, George Gustav pendent filmmaker/multimedia Festival Staff Support Heye Center is located at One artist Dan Davis, Technical Coordinator Bowling Green adjacent to the northeast corner of Battery Park. FVC Selectors George McGuire, Manager, NCC Erica C. Wortham, Coordinator, Subway: IRT-4/5 to Bowling Latin American Selections Lori Dynan, Festival Special Events Green; IRT-1/9 to South Ferry; N/R to Whitehall Street. Carol Kalafatic (Quechua-Spanish- Angela Diggs, Administrative Bus: Ml, M6to Bowling Green Croatian), Coordinator, Native Assistant Park; M15 to South Ferry. Networks Ruth von Goeler, Festival Coordinator NMAI INFORMATION 212 514 3737 www.si.edu/nmai_film+video Festival Staff Support Acknowledgements Lillian Jimenez, independent media - continued The Festival organizers wish to consultant; Scott Rosenfeldt, thank the following for their Shadowcatcher Productions; Randy Nodwesj Red Bear (Rosebud assistance: Ross, independent media Sioux-Ottawa), Departmental consultant; Faye Ginsburg, Secretary Frank Blythe, Native American Program in Culture and Media, Public Telecommunications; New York University; Catherine Annie Teamer (Cherokee), NMAI Rosemary Richmond, Joanna Benamou, Duke University; Volunteers Coordinator Osburn Bigfeather, and Jim Guillermo Monteforte, CVI Centro Cyrus, American Indian de Video Indígena, Oaxaca; Jorge Estevez (Taino), Public Community House; Kenneth Claudia Hernandez, The New Programs Assistant Mueller and Chris Catanese, Museum; Karen Ranucci, IMRE; Museum of Television & Radio; Geoffrey Gilmore, Sundance Film Sponsors Kathy Brew, Thundergulch; Festival; Pam Roberts, Rattlesnake The Festival and Native Networks Patricia Boero, Sundance Productions; R.H. Red Owl, Long Symposium have been made Institute; Juan García de Oteyza Island University; Christine possible by support from The Ford and Bernice Gonzalez de León, Halvorsen, Amanaka’a; Melissa Foundation; the John D. and Mexican Cultural Institute; Lilie Tardiff, Indigo Information Catherine T. MacArthur Zendel, Canadian Consulate Designers; the NMAI departments Foundation; the Mexican Cultural General; Ward Chamberlain and whose assistance has been essential Institute and the Mexican Anne Gorfinkel, Thirteen/WNET; to this event; Carole Lazio, FVC Government Tourism Office; the Lisa Heller and Doug Chang, Archival Consultant; John Canadian Consulate General and P.O.V.; Samori Marksman and Humphrey, Volunteer the Canadian Department of Valerie van Islen, WBAI-FM; Extraordinaire; and the many others Foreign Affairs and International Marrie Mumford, Banff Center for who have made this event possible. Trade; NAPT Native American the Arts; Public Telecommunications; and Thirteen/WNET. Wichan: El Jucio/Wichan: The Trial The 10th Native American Film Thursday, October 30 and Video Festival is presented by the Film and Video Center of Thundergulch the National Museum of the Native Interactive American Indian in New York City at the George Gustav Heye Presented in cooperation with Center and at three other sites: Thundergulch the American Indian Community 12:30-1:30 pm House, the Museum of Television Tuscarora multimedia artist The Prayer of Thanksgiving & Radio, and Thundergulch. The Melanie Printup Hope showcases her CD-ROM The Monday, October 27­ Festival celebrates the range of Prayer of Thanksgiving and November 9 independent and tribal Marty Kreipe de Montaño community productions about (Prairie Band Potawatomi) Rotunda demonstrates NMAI’s live Native peoples of the Americas Web site project, Conexus as Multimedia Art and Hawai’i, and focuses on part of the electronic media series “lunchtime@the wall.” productions by Native media The Prayer of Thanksgiving makers and those that strongly Thundergulch, Lobby of 55 A multimedia installation piece by Tuscarora artist Broad Street (one street east reflect Native viewpoints. The Melanie Printup Hope of NMAI at Beaver St.). Festival showcases productions employs new technology to in film, video, radio and express Iroquois traditions and television, and electronic media. world view. Screening programs were chosen by invited selectors---Native American filmmakers and cultural activists---and the program staff of the Film and Video Center. Additional NMAI staff and advisors developed radio, electronic media, and high school programs. OCTOBER 30 – NOVEMBER 9 Thursday, October 30 Discussant: Alberto Muenala (Quichua), independent filmmaker Auditorium and founding director, Festival of Abya Yala, Quito, Ecuador Native Networks Friday, October 31 Symposium on Indigenous Media in the Age of Globalization Auditorium Y Nuevamente Partieron/ And They Left Again 1-5 pm Native Media and Community 1-5 pm New Technologies and Native Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree), Project Native media initiatives in the Director, The Cradleboard Knowledge Americas – community-based and Teaching Project (invited) national – explore alternatives for Electronic media projects are communications and Native voice. examined in the light of issues of access and cultural copyright. Discussant: Loretta Todd (Cree Métis), independent filmmaker Moderator: Paul Apodaca (Navajo- Mexican), curator and scholar Moderator: Frank Blythe (Sioux- Cherokee), Director, NAPT Native Juanita Espinosa (Dakota-Ojibwe), American Public Directory Native Arts Circle, Telecommunications Minneapolis Randy Ross (Ponca-Otoe Missouria), independent network Camille Lacapa (Hopi-Tewa- consultant Ojibwe), Program Manager, WOJB-Radio, Wisconsin Glenn Morrison (Mohawk), Director, First Nations Juan José García (Zapotec), CVI Confederation of Cultural Indigenous Video Center, Mexico Education Centers, Ontario Vincent Carelli, CTI Center for Peggy Berryhill (Muscogee Creek), Indigenous Work, Brazil independent radio and multimedia producer Iván Sanjinés, Director, CEFREC Media Production and Training James H. May (United Keetoowah Center, Bolivia Band), Institute for Indigenous Science, Language, and Culture, Ana Vilacama (Quechua), California State University at National Indigenous Plan for Monterey Bay Communications, Bolivia SYMPOSIUM OCTOBER 30 – 31 Limited seating. Reservations Collector’s Room recommended. Media in Native Introductions by the directors. Communities Auditorium 7-10 pm Media by Native producers for and Looking Homeward about their own communities articulate concerns about language, Qatuwas: People Gathering Together 7-10 pm media, and cultural continuity. Connections to community inspire Qatuwas: People Gathering two new films by award-winning Hocak Ecology directors. Together (1997, 21 min.) Daryl Lonetree (1996, 59 min.) Barb Cranmer (Hocak-lowa-Dakota). (‘Namgis). The Heiltsuk people Picturing a People: George play a role in the renaissance of Johnston, Tlingit Photographer A community production Northwest Coast canoe culture as (1997, 52 min.) Carol Geddes imaginatively teaches Hocak they undertake a historic journey. (Tlingit). George Johnston, who (Winnebago) language and values. U.S. Premiere. made a unique photographic record New York Premiere. Introduced by of his people during a time of Kenneth Funmaker, Sr. (Hocak), change, is remembered by a Head of Hocak Wazijaci Language filmmaker from his village. U.S. and Culture Program. Premiere. Tem Que Ser Curioso/You Have Backbone of the World: to be Curious The Blackfeet (1996, 16 min.) Caimi Waiassé (1997, 57 min.) George Burdeau (Xavante), In Portuguese with (Blackfeet). A filmmaker English subtitles. The videomaker documents coming home to his comments on the introduction of tribe and its history, while video documentation to his village reflecting on his role as a media in the Brazilian Amazon. U.S. maker in the community. New Premiere. York Premiere. Introduced