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NATIVE CINEMA SHOWCASE 2011Presented by
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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the
American Indian and the Southwestern Association for
Indian Arts Present
The Eleventh Annual
Native Cinema Showcase
August 15–21, 2011
Welcome to the Santa Fe Indian Market’s Native
Cinema Showcase, a collaborative partnership between
the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American
Indian (NMAI) and the Southwestern Association for
Indian Arts (SWAIA). To better present the vitalit y of
Native lm narrative, we are pleased to bring important
changes to the lm festival by expanding it to an entire
week and consolidating all showings into one venue.
These changes acknowledge the growing momentum
of Native lmmaking by increasing accessibility and
creating new educational opportunities for Indian
Market visitors, as well as participating artists and their
families.
There is something for everyone at this year’s Native
Cinema Showcase, from children to adults, seriousto funny, and intimate to less familiar—all providing
insight into the complexity of Native life. The week
begins on Monday, August 15, with a screening of this
year’s Indian Market lm entry winners. Highlights
of the showcase include lmmaker introductions and
panel discussions.
All screenings will be at the New Mexico History
Museum and are free to the public. Both SWAIA
and NMAI are appreciative of this new partnershipas well as the support of Silver Bullet Productions,
Native American Public Telecommunications and
imagineNATIVE.
On behalf of the SWAIA Indian Market and NMAI
boards and staff—again—welcome.
Kevin Gover (Pawnee)
Director, National Museum
of the American Indian
Bruce Bernstein
Director, Southwest Association
for Indian Arts
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Presenting
Organizations andShowcase Team
Presenting Organizations
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American
Indian and the NMAI Film & Video Center
Chartered by an act of Congress in 1989 as the 18th
museum of the Smithsonian Institution, the National
Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is dedicated
to advancing knowledge and understanding of the
Native cultures of the Americas. The NMAI Film and
Video Center (FVC) produces the Native American
Film + Video Festival. The FVC is headquartered
at the NMAI in New York, where it develops local,
national, and international programs for the museum.Both the FVC and the media initiatives department
in Washington, D.C., provide screenings of and
information services about Native lm, video,
radio, and television in the Americas and Hawai‘i.
www.americanindian.si.edu
www.nativenetworks.si.edu (English)
www.redesindigenas.si.edu (Spanish)
Southwestern Association for Indian Arts and Santa Fe
Indian Market
SWAIA’s mission is to bring Native arts to the world
by inspiring artistic excellence, fostering education, and
creating meaningful partnerships. This largest juried
show of Native ne art with over 1,100 artists from
100 tribes shows their work in over 1,000 booths over
a two-day period. This year marks the 90th Annual
SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market, and it takes place on
the Plaza and surrounding streets in Santa Fe. Join
us for a week of festive cultural events including the
screening of Classication X lms, the spoken word at
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, music on
the plaza, and 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 20 and 21.
For information visit www.swaia.org
Showcase Team
NMAI: Reaghan Tarbell (Mohawk), Program
Coordinator, FVC; Melissa Bisagni, Media Initiatives
Program Manager
SWAIA: Bruce Bernstein, Director; John Torres-Nez
(Diné), Director of Artist Services; Shawna Shandiin
Sunrise (Diné/Kewa), Programs/Tribal Liaison
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Showcase
Inormation
All screenings and programs at the
New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) are free.
Seating is on a rst come, rst served basis.
Museum location:
113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe.
(505) 476-5200
www.nmhistorymuseum.org
Further information:
www.nativenetworks.si.edu
www.swaia.org
Visit the NCS on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/user/NMAIFVC
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Monday, August 15th
7:00 p.m. Class X (pg 7)
Tuesday, August 16th
11:00 a.m. Let My Whakapapa Speak (pg 8)
3:00 p.m. A Good Day to Die (pg 9)
6:00 p.m. Ancient Pathways - Modern Leaders (pg 10)
Wednesday, August 17th
11:00 a.m. KidFLIX! (pg 11)
1- 4:30 p.m. International Indigenous Art on Film (pg 12)
Thursday, August 18th
1:00 p.m. Showcase Shorts (pg 13)3:00 p.m. Showcase Shorts (repeat) (pg 13)
7:30 p.m. Opening Night: On the Ice (pg 6)
Friday, August 19th
1:00 p.m. KidFLIX! (pg 11)
3:00 p.m. Pelq’ilc/Coming Home (pg 14)
7:00 p.m. imagineNATIVE Shorts (pg 15)
Saturday, August 20th
1:00 p.m. Class X (pg 7)
3:00 p.m. Grab (pg 16)
7:00 p.m. From A to S with Tvli and Steven (pg 17)
Sunday, August 21st
11:00 a.m. Showcase Shorts (pg 13)
1:00 p.m. Columbus Day Legacy (pg 18)
2:30 p.m. Apache 8 (pg 19)
4:00 p.m. Smokin’ Fish (pg 20)
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Schedule
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On the Ice7:30 p.m. / Thursday
(US, 2011, 96 min.)
In English and Iñupiaq with English subtitles.
Director and screenwriter:
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean (Iñupiaq)
Producer: Cara Marcous
Best Feature Film Crystal Bear for
Generation 14plus, at the 2011 Berlinale
(Berlin International Film Festival)
In a taut drama that unfolds in Alaska’s far north, three
young men go seal hunting. Only two return. With
their future in balance, they are forced to explore the
limits of friendship, honor, and community. Featuring
breakout performances by Josiah Patkotak (Iñupiaq)
and Frank Qutuq Irelan (Iñupiaq).
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Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
and Cara Marcous
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean (Iñupiaq) is a director
and playwright, born and raised in Barrow, Alaska. In
2008 he was named a United States Artists RasmusonFellow in Media and was featured in Filmmaker
magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” On
the Ice is based on MacLean’s short lm, Sikumi , which
premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and won
the Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking. It was short-listed
for the 2009 Academy Awards. His other short lms
include Natchiliagniaqtuguk Aapagalu/Seal Hunting
with Dad , which premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film
Festival and was named one of the ten best short lms
at the festival by IndieWire.
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Let My
Whakapapa Speak 11:00 a.m. / Tuesday
( NEW ZEALAND, 2008, 77 min.)
In English and te reo Maori with English subtitles.
Director: Tainui Stephens (Te Rarawha)
Presented in cooperation with the
Indigenous Language Institute
The kohanga reo, Maori “language nests,” are cited
worldwide as the model for language and culture
revitalization through total immersion. Through the
voice of one of the movement’s foremost leaders,
Iritana Tawhiwhirangi, this documentary chronicles the
kohanga reo from its early days as a g rass-roots project
of the Department of Maori Affairs to its success,
three decades later, having graduated over 60,000 uent
te reo Maori speakers.
Tainui Stephens (Te Rarawa) got his start in 1984
working as a reporter and researcher for the Television
New Zealand weekly news show Koha alongside
other well-known contributors such as Merata Mita
and Whai Ngata. He has since become one of New
Zealand’s most recognized news journalists, as well as a
mentor and advisor to other Maori artists. In addition
to Stephens’ work in broadcast news, he has directed
and produced lms. His 2002 short, The Hill , was
selected for both Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals.
Stephens currently serves as the Maori advisor to New
Zealand On Air and is a board member of both the
New Zealand Film Commission and the Te Huarahi
Tika Trust.
Preceded by: History Is Unwritten
(US, 2011, 4 min.) In Lushootseed with English subtitles.
Director: Aaron Jones (Tulalip)
The lmmaker brings together the beauty of the cedar
forest with the language and lifeways of his people.
Winner of the Best Emerging Filmmaker Award at the
Seattle Museum of History and Industry.
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A Good Day to Die3:00 p.m. / Tuesday
(US, 2010, 92 min.)
Directors: Lynn Salt (Choctaw) and David Mueller
An intimate look at the life of Dennis Banks,
co-founder of the American Indian Movement
(AIM), from boarding school and the military to his
transformative experience in Stillwater State Prison.
AIM’s game-changing confrontations in Washington,
D.C., and Custer, South Dakota, and the epic standoff at Wounded Knee in 1973 ushered in a new era of
Native American pride and self-determination.
Lynn Salt (Choctaw) has worked in the motion picture
industry as a screenwriter, director, and producer,
working with NBC and the Walt Disney Studios, among
others. She is based in Los Angeles with her partner
David Mueller, an award-winning documentary
producer. Mueller has worked as a television directorfor NBC and CBS. Mueller holds a certicate of
lm and a master’s degree in international education
from New York University. Both are members of the
Directors Guild of America.
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Ancient PathwaysModern Leaders6:00 p.m. / Tuesday
(US, 2011, 45 min.)
Producers: Pamela A. Pierce, Nicoll Durrie,
Conroy Chino (Acoma Pueblo)
For over a thousand years the Pueblo peoples living in
the Rio Grande Valley and western New Mexico have
endured, their survival dependent on the devotion
of their leaders. Ancient Pathways - Modern Leaders
explores the journey of a Pueblo leader, the selection
process that identies leaders based on character,
knowledge, and passion, and the role of leaders in
advocating for Pueblo sovereignty, lands, and languages.
Preceded by a trailer for Growing Native,
a new documentary series produced by Native
American Public Telecommunications (NAPT),
directed and hosted by Chris Eyre (Cheyenne/
Arapaho). The rst episode, produced by Beverly Morris (Aleut) and KNME in Albuquerque, features
Santa Clara Pueblo artist Roxanne Swentzell.
Screening followed by panel with: Conroy Chino
(Acoma Pueblo) and Pueblo Leadership
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Introduced by: Wes Studi (Cherokee)
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KidFLIX!11:00 a.m. / Wednesday
1:00 p.m. / Friday
Total running time: 51 minutes
The Visit (CANADA, 2009, 4 min.)
Director: Lisa Jackson (Ojibwe). Based on a true story,
this animated short recounts a Cree family’s strange
encounter one winter night.
How Birds Got Their Song (US, 2010, 5 min.)
Director: Jo Dery. A traditional story of the Narragan-
sett tribe is animated and scored by students of the
Nuweetooun School.
Dancers of the Grass (CANADA, 2009, 2 min.) Director: Melanie Jackson (Métis/Saulteaux). A
stunning display of a stop-motion animation depicts
the hoop dance, a tradition symbolizing the unity of all
nations.
Walk-in-the-Forest (CANADA, 2009, 3 min.) Director: Diane Obomsawin. A medicine man discov-
ers an intriguing secret world deep in the woods.
My Name is Kobe (US, 2010, 8 min.)
Director: Briana Roberts (Yocha Dehe Wintun).
Meet the cat who calls the tribal ofce home.
The Story of Priest Point (US, 2010, 2 min.) In
Lushootseed with English subtitles. Director: Students
of Tulalip Heritage School. Killer whales rescue the
people of P riest Point from starvation in this tradi-tional Tulalip tale.
Kiss En Concert (CANADA, 2009, 3 min.) Director: Vanessa Turner. This animation brings you
the famous rock band and their fans like you’ve never
seen them before—as styrofoam cups!
Wapos Bay “As the Bannock Browns”
(CANADA, 2008, 24 min.) Director: Cam Lizotte
Producer: Dennis Jackson (Cree/Saulteaux), Melanie
Jackson (Métis/Saulteaux), Anand Ramayya, Derek
Mazur. An episode from a light-hearted animation
series featuring the adventures of three Cree children
living in remote northern Saskatchewan.
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International
Indigenous Art
on Film1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Wednesday
Followed by a panel discussion led by:
Nora Naranjo-Morse
Art + Soul: A Journey into the World of
Aboriginal Art—Home and Away
(AUSTRALIA, 2010, 55 min.)Director: Warwick Thornton (Kaytetye)
In the series Art + Soul , which showcases the past
30 years of the Aboriginal art movement in Australia,
Hetti Perkins, senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of New South
Wales, crisscrosses the country meeting artists both
urban and remote. Home and Away investigates the
question, “What does it mean to be ‘at home’ for
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people? Is it
where you live, or the ‘country’ you are exiled from?”
and provides a rich encounter with Aboriginal history
and culture.
2501 Migrants: A Journey
(MEXICO, 2009, 54 min.)In Spanish with English subtitles.
Director: Yolanda Cruz (Chatino)
When Zapotec artist Alejandro Santiago returns home
to Teococuilco, Oaxaca, he nds a virtual ghost town.
In response, he creates a monumental art installation
comprised of 2,501 life-size ceramic sculptures that
pays homage to each person who left the village in
search of a better life. This feature documentary
explores questions of art, artist, and indigenous
community in the context of global migration.
In person: Yoland Cruz
Always Becoming
(US, 2011, 52 min.)In English and Spanish with English subtitles.
Director: Nora Naranjo-Morse
(Tewa of Santa Clara Pueblo)
Executive Producer: National Museum of the
American Indian
Through this lm the acclaimed Pueblo artist
Nora Naranjo-Morse shares her own process of
“always becoming,” going beyond the experience of designing and constructing the monumental outdoor
sculpture project of the same name, to look at how
art communicates across generations and borders,
becoming a common language between strangers.
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Showcase Shorts1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. / Thursday
11:00 a.m. / Sunday
Total running time: 99 minutes
This diverse selection of works from Indian Country
begins with Search for the World’s Best Indian
Taco (US, 2010, 15 min.) In English and Choctaw
with English subtitles. Director: Steven Judd (Choctaw).
An old man tells his grandson a tall tale about his
search for true love.
Cousins (CANADA, 2010, 17 min.) Director:
Sally Kewayosh (Cree/Ojibwe). Two high school girls,
cousins and best friends, fall for the same boy.
Ebony Society (NEW ZEALAND, 2010, 13
min.) Director: Tammy Davis (Ng āti Rangi, Ati-
haunui a Paparangi). One night out stealing, two boys
learn a lesson.
Bear Tung (CANADA, 2010, 9 min.) Director:
Travis Shilling (Ojibwe). An exploration of the rela-
tionship between animals and people brings a Native
hunter together with his prey at a press conference in
the woods.
Indian Elvis (US, 2011, 6 min.) Producer/Director:
Matt Leach and Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Creek). Meet
Michael Loman, a Choctaw Elvis impersonator, fancy
dancer, and ute player living in Tulsa.
Keeping Quiet (CANADA, 2010, 9 min.) Direc-
tor: Shane Belcourt (Métis). Moody black-and-white
cinematography underscores the loneliness of a man
who has lost his partner.
Shimásání (US, 2009, 15 min.) In Navajo with
English subtitles. Director: Blackhorse Lowe (Navajo).
A young Navajo girl must decide whether to retain her
traditional lifestyle at home with her grandmother or
seek a new life “just over the mountain.”
Sikumi/On the Ice (US, 2008, 15 min.) In Iñupiaq
with English subtitles. Director: Andrew Okpeaha
MacLean (Iñupiaq). An Inuit hunter drives his dog
team out on the frozen Arctic in search of seals but,
instead, becomes a witness to a killing.
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Pelq’ilc /
Coming Home3:00 p.m. / Friday
(CANADA, 2009, 33 min.)
Director: Helen Haig-Brown (Tsilhqot’in)
Presented in cooperation with
the Indigenous Language Institute
Individuals in two communities of the Secwepemc
Nation in south-central British Columbia share their
experience in cultural renewal and recovery. The
holistic education process they are engaged in is deeply
rooted in language, family, and tradition as way to
strengthen them and carry them forward as a people.
Helen Haig-Brown (Tsilhqot’in) is an award-winning
director and director of photography. Her rst ctional
work, ?E?anx/The Cave , was an ofcial selection
of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and of Berlinale
2010, and in 2009 was named one of Canada’s Top Ten
(Short Film) by the Toronto International Film Festival.
Haig-Brown has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, the National Film Board of Canada, and
Knowledge, the public television network of British
Columbia.
In person: Helen Haig-Brown
Preceded by: Writing the Land
(CANADA, 2007, 8 min.)
In English and Hunkamenum.
Director: Kevin Lee Burton (Swampy Cree)
Cinematographer: Helen Haig-Brown (Tsilhqot’in)
A celebration of Musqueam elder Larry Grant’s experi-
ence of rediscovering the Hunkamenum language
and cultural traditions in the cityscape of Vancouver,
located on ancestral Musqueam lands.
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imagineNATIVE
Shorts7:00 p.m. / Friday
Total running time: 71 minutes
In person: Jason Ryle (Saulteaux),
Executive Director, imagineNATIVE Film
+ Media Arts Festival
This collection of shorts from Indigenous lmmakers
living in Canada reects the diversity of works shown
at the annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts
Festival in Toronto, which will take place from October
19–23, 2011. Spanning the country from each of the
four directions, these lms represent the artistic visions
of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists.
Tungijuq (CANADA, 2009, 7 min.)
Directors: Félix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphaël. A
cinematic and musical journey evokes the primal reality
of hunting for Inuit culture.
Wapawekka (CANADA, 2010, 16 min.)
In English and Cree with English Subtitles.
Director: Danis Goulet (Métis). The quiet spaces of
an isolated family camp begin to erode the cultural
distance between a traditional Cree man and his son. Inuit High Kick (CANADA, 2009, 3 min.)
Director: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril (Inuit). A stunning
visual exploration of an ancient test of athleticism
and skill. Lumaajuuq (CANADA, 2010, 7 min.)
Director: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril (Inuit). Based on an
Inuit legend, this elegant animation recreates a haunting
tale about a boy who is twisted by bitterness and seeks
revenge upon his cruel mother.
Burnt
(CANADA/COLOMBIA/US, 2009, 14 min.)
Director: Alejandro Valbuena (Kogi). Valbuena
interprets childhood memory to create an electric
romance between two young men.
Savage (CANADA, 2009, 6 min.)
In Cree with English subtitles.
Director: Lisa Jackson (Ojibwe). A wildly inventive
take on the profound trauma of the boarding school
experience for Native people. File Under Miscellaneous
(CANADA, 2010, 7 min.)
In English and Mi’gMaq with English subtitles.
Director: Jeff Barnaby (Mi’gMaq). Pablo Neruda’s
poem “Walking Around” inspires a gorgeous and
gruesome fantasy of a destitute Mi’gMaq man who
decides to assimilate into the ruling culture.
?E?anx/The Cave (CANADA, 2009, 11 min.)
In Tsilhqot’in with English subtitles.
Director: Helen Haig-Brown (Tsilhqot’in). A hunter
discovers a portal to the spirit world in this moving
rendering of a story told in the lmmaker’s community.
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Grab3:00 p.m. / Saturday
(US, 2011, 56 min.) Director: Billy Luther (Navajo/Hopi/Laguna Pueblo)
Executive Producers: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Produced by: World of Wonder
Each year, residents of the Laguna Pueblo in New
Mexico honor individual family members by throwing
food and gifts from the rooftops of their homes to
community members below. A community-wide prayer
of abundance, thanks, and renewal, Grab Day exists at
the intersection of traditional Native and contemporary
Western culture. Luther’s lm chronicles the lives of
three families as they make preparations to participate
in this ancient tradition.
In person: Billy Luther
Billy Luther (Navajo/Hopi/Laguna Pueblo) is the
rst Native American lmmaker to receive the pres-
tigious Creative Capital artist grant. Among his other
awards are a 2008 Media Arts Fellowship from the
Tribeca Film Institute and a Sundance Institute/Ford
Foundation Fellowship. Luther’s 2006 documentary,
Miss Navajo, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
A graduate of Hampshire College, he currently lives in
Los Angeles.
Immediately following the screening of Grab there will be
an actual “throw.” Please join us on the east side of the
New Mexico History Museum.
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Discussion: From
A to S with Tvliand Steven7:00 p.m. / Saturday
Tvli Jacob (Choctaw) and Steven Judd (Kiowa/
Choctaw) share what they learned during their rst
ten years in the lm industry, from “A to S”: their rst
feature American Indian Grafti: This Thing Life to
their most recent Shouting Secrets , written for hire
and starring Chaske Spencer, Q’orianka Kilcher, Tyler
Christopher, Gil Birmingham, and Tantoo Cardinal.
In person: Tvli Jacob and Steven Judd.
Moderated by: Georgiana Lee (Navajo) of NAPT.
A member of the Choctaw Nation, Tvli Jacob holds
degrees from Haskell Indian Nations University,
where he made his rst short lm, and the Institute
of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, where he
currently teaches screenwriting. Jacob’s lm credits
Jacob. Two years later, their original lm MAC v. PC
with a Native Twist earned them a seminalist position
in NBC/Universal’s Comedy Short Cuts Diversity Film
Festival and a screening at the Smithsonian’s National
Museum of the American Indian. In 2008, Judd was
one of 14 people accepted into the Disney/ABC
Writing Fellowship Program. A member of the Writers
Guild of America, Judd worked for Disney XD before
writing and co-producing the PBS documentary Silent
Thunder . In 2009, he was nominated as a Distinguished
Alumni for the University of Oklahoma and asked
to speak as part of the associated lecture series. That
same year, he won the Creative Spirit Award for his
screenplay Search for the World’s Best Indian Taco. In
2011, the lm earned Outstanding Short at the North
American Indigenous Image Awards.
include the PBS documentary Silent Thunder , which
he co-produced with writing partner Steven Judd,
America’s First Horse , a supplemental documentary
for the motion picture Hidalgo, the PBS web
series ReelNatives , and We Shall Remain . Awards
and grants include the Disney/ABC screenwriter
scholarship, a grant from Native American Public
Telecommunications, and runner-up in the NBC/
Universal Comedy Short Cuts for a short lm he
produced and directed.
Born in Oklahoma, Steven Judd (Kiowa/Choctaw)
attended from Haskell Indian Nations University in
Lawrence, Kansas, and the University of Oklahoma,
where he earned degrees in communications and
Native American studies. In 2005, Judd received the
Storyteller of the Year Award from the Native Word
Craft Writing Circle along with his writing partner, Tvli
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Columbus Day
Legacy 1:00 p.m. / Sunday
(US, 2010, 34 min.) Director: Bennie Klain (Navajo)
Producer: Leighton Peterson
Produced by: Native American
Public Telecommunications
A conict between the city’s Native American and
Italian American communities during a Columbus Day
celebration prompts this examination of issues of
freedom of speech, the interpretation of history, and
ethnic pride. Bennie Klain takes viewers into this very
personal yet very public conict, asking tough ques-
tions about identity and history in America.
Bennie Klain (Navajo), director of documentaries
and short ctions, is a co-founder of TricksterFilms in
Austin, Texas. His most recent documentary, Columbus
Day Legacy , received a National Geographic All Roads
Seed Grant in 2007 and a post-production grant from
the Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund in 2008.Klain’s documentary Weaving Worlds was televised
nationally on PBS and won several lm festival awards.
In 2004 he was a Sundance Institute/Ford Foundation
Film Fellow in scriptwriting. A uent Navajo speaker,
Klain often incorporates the language into his work.
He was co-producer and worked as a translator for the
award-winning documentary The Return of Navajo Boy
(directed by Jeff Spitz), which premiered at Sundance
and screened at more than sixty festivals.
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Apache 82:30 p.m. / Sunday
(US, 2010, 58 min.)
Director: Sande Zeig
Executive Producer: Heather Rae (Cherokee)
Producers: Dolly Hall, Victoria Westover
Associate Producer: Pearl Harvey
(White Mountain Apache)
World Premiere 15th Native American Film + Video Festival
The White Mountain Apache Tribe in Arizona
produced the rst and longest-lasting all-women
wildland reghting crew in the United States. Four
extraordinary women from different generations of
the Apache 8 crew, some still working as professional
reghters, share their personal narratives with humor
and tenderness.
In person: Katy Aday (Apache)
Director and screenwriter Sande Zeig has directed
documentaries and ction lms which have screened at
various festivals worldwide, including Sundance, Berlin
and Toronto. Zeig is also president of the distribution
company Artistic License Films. Before becoming
interested in lm, Zeig worked for many years in
theater as an actor, writer, and producer in Paris and
New York.
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Smokin’ Fish4:00 p.m. / Sunday
(US, 2011, 82 min.)
Director: Luke Griswold-Tergis
and Cory Mann (Tlingit)
Sneak Preview
Cory Mann gets hungry for smoked salmon and
decides to spend the summer smoking sh at his
family’s sh camp in the Alaskan backcountry. As he
reconnects with his roots away from his hectic life in
Juneau, we are given a privileged view of Tlingit culture
and history, as it is experienced by one very original
Tlingit person.
Luke Griswold-Tergis is an emerging lmmaker
from Haines, Alaska. He graduated from the University
of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied cultural
anthropology and social documentation. In Alaska, he
has been a commercial sherman, carpenter,
and boat mechanic.
Cory Mann (Tlingit) is an emerging lmmaker from
Juneau, Alaska. Mann is an entrepreneur and, when
he is not smoking sh, runs a business that produces
and imports Tlingit-inuenced artwork for sale to the
tourism industry. He was inspired to take on Smokin’
Fish , his rst lm, by a deep concern for the future of
his culture and the health of his people.
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Showcase Thanks Jason Ryle and Daniel Northway Frank,
imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival
Inée Yang Slaughter and Rachael Nez, Indigenous Language Institute
Elizabeth Weatherford, Millie Seubert,Rebekah Mejorado, and Cindy Benitez,
NMAI Film and Video Center
Alexandra Harris, Editor
NMAI Office of Publications
Corey Garcia (Acoma), PR and Marketing Assistant,
Whitney Stewart, Graphic Designer
SWAIA Support Staff
Shirley Sneve and Georgiana Lee, Native American Public Telecommunications
Rouge Cat
Silver Bullet Productions
Bill Hill, Hill Top Productions
Trish Lopez, New Mexico Filmmakers Program
Director, New Mexico State Film Office
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Advisement committee: Ross Chaney (Osage/Cherokee), Director of Business Programs, Santa Fe Business incuba-
tor; Dustinn Craig (White Mountain Apache/Navajo), Independent Producer/Director; Trish Lopez, NM Film-
makers Program Director, New Mexico Film Ofce; Beverly
Morris (Aleut), Independent Producer/Director; Diane
Reyna (Taos/Ohkay Owingeh), LSC Coordinator, Institute
of American Indian Arts; Jonathan Sims (Acoma Pueblo),
Independent Producer/Director; Patty Talahongva (Hopi),
Independent Producer/Director; Alton Walpole, Unit
Production Manager/Line Producer
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Phone: 402.472.3522
Fax: 402.472.8675
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