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NATIVE CINEMA SHOWCASE 2011Presented by



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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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



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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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


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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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


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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