Native Cinema ShowcaseAugust 13 - 19, 2012

presented by the Smithsonian’s National Museum

of the American Indian and SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market

12th

Annual

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.

Once again we are bringing the Showcase to the Indian Market visitor with free screenings at the New Mexico History Museum. We are pleased to continue this relationship with an accessible venue and supportive partner.

Both NMAI and SWAIA are appreciative of this year’s programming partnerships: thanks to Sundance Institute’s Native Initiative, Native American Public Telecommunications, National Geographic All Roads Film Project - Future Voices of New Mexico, and the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.

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, PhDDirector, Southwestern Association for Indian Arts

Present

The Twelfth Annual

Native Cinema Showcase

August 13–19, 2012

Welcome to Native Cinema Showcase, a collaborative partnership between the NMAI and SWAIA. Begun twelve years ago with Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts and Taos Talking Pictures, Native Cinema Showcase continues to evolve in maintaining its purpose in bringing the best Native film to Indian Market attendees. Native narrative is millennia 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, acknowledges the growing momentum of Native 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 of Native life. In keeping with the missions of our organizations, film showings are enhanced by having the filmmakers in attendance to participate in post-screening conversations.

Welcome

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Presenting Organizations

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

The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is dedicated to advancing knowledge and understanding of the Native cultures of the Americas. Two of its departments, the Film and Video Center (FVC) in New York and Media Initiatives in Washington, D.C., produce local, national, and international screening programs throughout the year. FVC also produces NMAI’s hemispheric Native American Film + Video Festival and provides information services to educators, filmmakers, 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

SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market

SWAIA’s mission is bringing Native arts to the world by inspiring artistic excellence, fostering education, and creating meaningful partnerships. This largest and most 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 of festive cultural events including the screening of Classification X films, book signings at Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, cultural performances on the Buffalo Thunder Plaza Stage, Sealaska stage, 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 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

Showcase Team

NMAI: Melissa Bisagni, Media Initiatives, Program Manager; Elizabeth Weatherford, Head of FVC, Program Advisor

SWAIA: Dr. John Torres-Nez (Diné), Deputy Director, Jhane Myers NoiseCat (Comanche/Blackfeet), Film Project Manager

Collaborating OrganizationsSundance Institute’s Native Initiative

Native American Public Telecommunications

National Geographic All Roads Film Project -Future Voices of New Mexico

imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

Classification X SponsorshipSanta Fe University of Art and Design

Mvskogee Creek Nation

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Mosquita y Mari7:00 p.m. / Monday

Presented by Sundance Institute’s Native Initiative(US, 2012, 85 min.)In English and Spanish with English subtitlesDirector 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 10In person: Nanobah Becker and Laura Ortman

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(photo) Mosquita y Mari

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Racing the Rez3:00 p.m. / Tuesday

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

Skins5:00 p.m.

(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 people of the reservation, Rudy takes matters into his own hands, going on a vigilante quest to save his community.

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Hide Away7:00 p.m.

(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 of America. In 2007 he was selected for both the United States Artists Fellowship and the Bush Foundation Artists 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 Night Lights, and the PBS series Mystery! and American Experience: We Shall Remain. He has recently been appointed head of the film department at the University of Santa Fe.

In person: Chris Eyre

NAPT Case Study: Injunuity11:00 a.m. / Wednesday

Calling All FilmmakersProgram running time: 90 minutes

What does it take to produce a successful documentary for PBS? Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT) will present a case study that will take participants 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.

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

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Navajo Paradiso!1:00 p.m. / Wednesday

Introduced by Leonda Levchuk (Navajo) Total running time: 73 minutesThe 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 subtitlesDirector: 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 (US, 2012, 6 min.) Director: Sydney Freeland (Navajo)After watching Back to the Future 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.

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(photos right, top to bottom) The 6th WorldRun Red Walk: A Navajo SheepdogHoverboardThe Way Things Are

SWAIAClass X Winner

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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) FloatingInterview with Einstein

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Canes of Power7:00 p.m. / Wednesday

Introduced by Conroy Chino (Acoma)(US, 2012, 52 min.)Producers: Pam Pierce and Nick DurrieAssociate producer: Dr. Matthew Martinez (Ohkay Owingeh)Associate producer: Conroy Chino (Acoma)Produced by Silver Bullet ProductionsNarrator: Wes Studi (Cherokee)

In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln presented silver-headed canes to each of New Mexico’s eighteen Pueblos. Today these canes remain potent symbols of continuing sovereignty. Why did this war-weary president, a leader of an Indian policy that destroyed many tribal communities, choose this action? Canes of Power offers a glimpse into the connection between Lincoln and the Pueblos, and the authority the Lincoln Canes continue to hold. This documentary is part of an educational initiative by 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.

Future Voices of New Mexico4:00 p.m. / Wednesday

Introduced by Marcella Ernest (Bad River Band of Ojibwe),Project Director, Future Voices of New MexicoProgram running time: 90 minutes

The second annual Future Voices of New Mexico Native Youth Film Festival showcases and awards prizes for outstanding film and video by young emerging filmmakers. The festival is produced by Future Voices of New Mexico, an organization working with indigenous and underrepresented communities to encourage high school students to tell stories through film and photography. Future Voices is a collaborative project of the National Geographic All Roads Film Project, Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, and Indigenous Language Institute.

For information visit www.futurevoicesofnewmexico.org

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The Medicine Game1:00 p.m. / Thursday

Sneak PreviewPresented 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 college dreams nearly within reach, the boys are caught up in a constant struggle to define their Native identity, live up to their family’s expectations, and balance challenges on and off the reservation.

Lukas Korver has worked internationally for ten years as a professional cinematographer. He filmed the acclaimed Vans series Pass the Bucket, about the humanitarian work of celebrated athletes and musicians. His directorial debut was Unfiltered: The Story Behind the Rivalry, the feature-length documentary about Olympic championship swimmers Michael Phelps and Ian Crocker.

In person: Lukas Korver and Jeremy Thompson

Skateboard Nation3:00 p.m. / Thursday

(US, 2011, 51 min.)Director: Martha Conboy Producer: Smithsonian Networks

Explore the underground movement that is helping Native American youth throughout the US soar above life’s chal-lenges one half-pipe at a time. Skateboarding is increas-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 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

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Indian Market’s Class X Winners7:30 p.m. / Thursday5:30 p.m. / Friday - Repeat

Total running time: 144 minutesSponsored by Santa Fe University of Art and Design

This special program features the Santa Fe Indian Market moving image Classification X winners. This category is the tenth and one of the most recent classifications to be added to the juried market. Awards for Narrative Short, Documentary Short, Animation Short, Experimental Short, and for the first time, Feature Film, recognize an artist’s dedication and skill in working with new media and innovative art forms while retaining a commitment to traditional creation and technique. Three screenings will be presented, each followed by a Q&A with the Classification X winners, moderated by Jhane Myers NoiseCat (Comanche/Blackfeet), Film Project Manager.Two screenings will be presented.

Class X Winners 2012Narrative Short (Fiction) Hoverboard Sydney Freeland (Navajo)

Animation Neil Discovers the Moon Steven Judd (Kiowa/Choctaw)

Experimental For Ayaina Marcella Ernest (Bad River Band of Ojibwe)

Feature Mesnak Yves Sioui-Durand (Huron-Wendat)

Music Video The Storm Steven Judd (Kiowa/Choctaw)

Documentary Short A Return Home Ramona Emerson (Navajo)

Youth Winners 2012Under 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

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Path Waves: Youth Shorts Program12:00 p.m. / Friday

Total running time: 55 minutes

Amaqqut Nunaat: The Country of Wolves (Canada, 2011, 14 min.)Director: Neil Christopher; Producer: Louise Flaherty (Inuit)In this haunting Inuit tale, two brothers face danger in a strange land.

Because of Who I Am(US, 2011, 4 min.)Director: Marcella Ernest (Bad River Band of Ojibwe)An artist challenges notions of what a Native woman is supposed to be.

Grumpy Old Man (US, 2010, 1 min.)Director: Tristan Craig (White Mountain Apache/Navajo)A little boy’s take on his world.

Hoverboard (US, 2012, 6 min.)Director: Sydney Freeland (Navajo)An imaginative young girl and her stuffed teddy bear try to make a working hoverboard.

How the Chipmunk Got Its Stripes (US, 2011, 3 min.)Directors: Students of the Tulalip Heritage SchoolA traditional tale told in lightbox animation.

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(below) Because of Who I Am

SWAIAClass X Winner

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Neil Discovers the Moon (US, 2011, 1 min.)Director: Steven Judd (Kiowa/Choctaw)Neil discovers more than just the moon.

Chased: Version #2 (US, 2011, 4 min.)Directors: SuperFly 2011 - Group 2Mentor: 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

SWAIAClass X Winner

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Shouting Secrets8:30 p.m. / Friday

(US, 2011, 88 min.)Director: Korinna SehringerWriters: 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(US, 2011, 5 min.)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.

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(photo left) Shouting Secrets

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imagineNATIVE Shorts12:00 p.m. / Saturday

Presented by imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts FestivalIntroduced 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.

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

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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) TOMORROWHoney for SalePridefreek¡Üwhency

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The 1491s7:00 p.m. / Saturday

* PROGRAM AT WAREHOUSE 211614 Paseo De Peralta, (505) 989-4423warehouse21.org

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 strong, and teach young men how to seduce these strong women.

The 1491s presents a curated show of not just their own snarky videos, but videos hand-picked from all that NDN Country has to offer in the previously uncharted territories known as the Web. Get up close and personal with the 1491s including Dallas Goldtooth (Dakota/Diné), Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Creek), Migizi Pensoneau (Ponca/Ojibwe), Ryan Red Corn (Osage), and Bobby Wilson (Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota/Standing Rock Lakota).

Post-presentation discussion moderated by writer Sierra Ornelas (Navajo).

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(photo left) The Daughter of Dawn(below) The 1941s

The Daughter of Dawn3:00 p.m. / Saturday

Special Work-in-Progress ScreeningPresented in co-operation with the Oklahoma Historical Society, a Smithsonian affiliate in Oklahoma CityIntroduced by Wes Studi (Cherokee)(US, 1920, 77 min.)Director: Richard E. Banks

Shot in the summer of 1920 in The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, The Daughter of Dawn boasted a cast of over 300 Kiowa and Comanche actors and is thought 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.

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Run to the East1:00 p.m. / Sunday

Presented in cooperation with the 2012 Wings of America 5K Run(US, 2011, 87 min.)Director: Henry Lu

Run to the East follows three American Indian high school seniors. Chantel “Tails” Hunt (Navajo), Thomas Martinez (Navajo), and Dillon Shije (Zia Pueblo) have overcome every obstacle in their personal lives and in their communities to become elite cross-country runners, and all three are determined to succeed. During their final year, they compete against runners from more privileged schools as they vie for college scholarships and a chance to explore opportunities off the rez.

Henry Lu is a filmmaker with Moxie Pictures in New York. His short films set in Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, and Tokyo have played at film festivals, including Sundance, Mill Valley, Sydney, and the Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto. Run to the East is Lu’s first feature-length film.

In person: Dustin Martin (Navajo), Director, Wings of America, Chatel “Tails” Hunt

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My Louisiana Love11:00 a.m. / Sunday

Presented by Native American Public Telecommunications(US, 2012, 66 min.)Director: Sharon Linezo Hong Producers/Writers: Sharon Linezo Hong and Monique Verdin (Houma)

Monique Verdin returns to southeast Louisiana to reunite with her family and quickly realizes that the Houma people’s traditional way of life—fishing, trapping, and hunting in the fragile wetlands—is being threatened by a cycle of man-made environmental crises. Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil leak are just the latest rounds in this century-old cycle that is forcing Monique’s clan to adapt in new ways. Monique must overcome the loss of her house, her father, and her partner, and redefine the meaning of home.

Sharon Linezo Hong has completed several short personal and industrial films. Her passion for films grew in part from her experience working as a cooperative member of San Francisco’s Red Vic Movie House. Hong was raised in a small town along Florida’s Gulf Coast and studied film at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. My Louisiana Love is her first full-length documentary.

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 YoungIñupiat 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

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(photo below) Run to the East

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Mesnak3:00 p.m. / Sunday

* FOR MATURE AUdiEncES

(Canada, 2011, 96 min.)In French and Innu with English subtitlesDirector: Yves Sioui Durand (Huron-Wendat) Producer: Ian BoydWorld 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.

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(photo right) Mesnak

SWAIAClass X Winner

2012

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!

For more information, please visit www.fnx.org

Showcase Thanks

www.okhistory.org

Principal Chief Tiger of the Mvscogee (Creek) Nation

www.santafeindependentfilmfestival.com

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

events.nationalgeographic.com/events/all-roads/future-voices

www.imaginenative.org

Santa Fe University of Art and Designwww.santafeuniversity.edu

www.warehouse21.org

www.nativetelecom.org

www3.hilton.com/en/hotels/new-mexico/hilton-santa-fe-historic-plaza-SFEHIHF/index.html

www.muscogeenation-nsn.gov

www.nmhistorymuseum.org

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Mon, August 13 Tue, August 14 Wed, August 15 Thur, August 16 Fri, August 17 Sat, August 18 Sun, August 19

Racing the Rez (pg.3)

Navajo Paradiso!

(pgs. 7-10)

Skins (pg.4)

Mosquita y Mari (pg.2) Hide Away (pg.5) Canes of Power (pg.12)

Future Voices of

New Mexico (pg.11)

Skateboard Nation

(pg.14)

The Medicine Game

(pg.13)

Path Waves: Youth Shorts

Program (pgs.16-18)

imagineNATIVE Shorts

(pgs.21-23)

My Louisiana Love (pg.27)

Run to the East (pg.28)

Mesnak (pg.29)The Daughter of Dawn

(pg.25)

Shouting Secrets (pg.20)

NAPT Case Study:

Injunuity (pg.6)

Class X Winners (pg.15)

The 1491s

* PROGRAM AT

WAREHOUSE 21 (pg.26)

Class X Winners

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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

Further information: americanindian.si.eduswaia.org

Native Cinema ShowcaseAugust 13 - 19, 2012

presented by the Smithsonian’s National Museum

of the American Indian and SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market

12th

Annual