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"Sikumi/On the Ice"

 

Thursday, March 26 - Friday, March 27 - Saturday, March 28 - Sunday, March 29

National Museum of the American Indian
George Gustav Heye Center
One Bowling Green, New York, NY

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Thusday, March 26, 2009

Time

Auditorium

7:00 pm


7 - 9:30 pm
We Shall Remain: Trail of Tears

Chris Eyre (Cheyenne/Arapaho)
2008, 74 min. US
Untitled
Courtney M. Leonard (Shinnecock)
2008, 5 min. US

Please note: This screening is FULL. Only wait list reservations are being accepted.

7:30 pm

8:00 pm

8:30 pm

9:00 pm

9:30 pm

Friday, March 27, 2009

Time

Auditorium

Diker Pavilion

11:00 am

11 am - 5 pm
Native Networks Symposium
Filmmakers discuss new projects,
from the communities to the digital
commons.

 

2:00 pm

3:00 pm

4:00 pm

5:00 pm

7:00 pm

7 - 9:30 pm
Older Than America
Georgina Lightning (Cree)
2007, 102 min. US

7 - 9:30 pm
Club Native
Tracey Deer (Mohawk)
2008, 78 min. CANADA

8:00 pm

9:00 pm

9:30 pm

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30 Years of the Native American Film + Video Festival

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Acknowledgements

2009 Festival Suppport

Past Native American Film and Video Festivals



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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Time

Auditorium

Diker Pavilion

Screening Room

12:00 pm

STRUGGLE FOR A BETTER LIFE
12 - 1:45 pm
Suma Qamaña, Sumak Kausay, Teko Kavi/For a Better Life
Collectively directed.
2008, 55 min. BOLIVIA
Raised by Our Own Authority
Mauricio Acosta
2006, 24 min. COLOMBIA

ACROSS THE AMAZON
12 - 1:40 pm

From Honey to Ashes

Lucas Bessire
2008, 47 min. US/PARAGUAY
Owners of the Water: Conflict & Collaboration Over Rivers
Laura R. Graham
David Hernández Palmar (Wayuu)
Caimi Waiassé (Xavante)
2008, 30 min. US

 

12:30 pm

FACING CHANGE
12:30 - 2:30 pm
Indian
Darryl Nepinak (Seaulteux)
2008, 2 min. CANADA
Making the River
SarahDel Seronde (Navajo)
2008, 83 min. US

1:00 pm

1:30 pm

1:45 pm

OUR HISTORIES
1:45 - 2:55 pm
Weaving Worlds
Bennie Klain (Navajo)
2008, 57 min. US

1:50 pm

STRUGGLE FOR A BETTER LIFE
1:50 - 3:40 pm
Soy Pedro, Somos Mixteco/I Am Pedro, We Are Mixteco

Cedar Sherbert (Kumeyaay)
2007, 20 min. US
Migrar o Morir/Paying the Price: Migrant Workers in the Toxic Fields of Sinaloa
Alex Halkin
2008, 35 min. MEXICO
A Cielo Abierto/Under the Open Sky
José Luis Matiás (Nahua)
Carlos Efraín Pérez (Mixe)
2007, 38 min. MEXICO

2:00 pm

2:30 pm

FACING CHANGE
2:45 - 4:15 pm
Reservation Soldiers
Lisa Jackson (Ojibwe)
2007, 48 min. CANADA

3:00 pm

OUR HISTORIES
3 - 4:40 pm
Xankuchka Ia/That Was All
Pavel Rodríguez (P’urhepecha)
2008, 29 min. MEXICO
Já Me Transformei em Imagem/I've Aready Become an Image

Zezinho Yube (Hunikui)
2008, 32 min. BRAZIL
Axuni Atari/Hunter of Deer
Raúl Máximo Cortés (P’urhepecha)
2006, 11 min. MEXICO

3:30 pm

3:45 pm

UNCONVENTIONAL NARRATIVES
3:45 - 4:40 pm
Pookums
Shane Belcourt (Métis)
2006, 11 min. CANADA
The Hand Drum
Stephanie Painter (Washoe/Shoshone/Oneida)
2008, 12 min. US
Escape Hatch

Tracey Deer (Mohawk)
2009, 15 min. CANADA

4:00 pm

4:30 pm

FACING CHANGE
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Mokoĩ Tekoá Peteĩ Jeguatá/Two Villages, One Path
Ariel Ortega (Guaraní)
Jorge Motinico (Guaraní)
Germano Beñites (Guaraní)
2008, 63 min. BRAZIL

4:45 pm

UNCONVENTIONAL NARRATIVES
4:45 - 6 pm
Sikumi/On the Ice
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean (Inupiaq)
2008, 15 min. US
The Colony
Jeff Barnaby (Mi’kmaq)
2007, 24 min. CANADA
4wheelwarpony

Dustinn Craig (White Mountain Apache/Navajo)
2008, 8 min. US
Nikamowin/Song
Kevin Lee Burton (Swampy Cree)
2007, 11 min. CANADA

NEXT GENERATIONS
4:45 - 6:00 pm

This Is Me
David Sam (Ojibwe)
2008, 4 min. US
Two Spirited
Sharon A. Desjarlais (Cree/Métis/Ojibwe)
2007, 7 min. CANADA
Pow Wow Dreams
Princess Lucaj (Gwich’in )
2006, 8 min. US
Fifteen
Cody Cayou (Swinomish)
Travis Tom (Swinomish/Lummi)
2006, 7 min. US
Hill High Low
Michael David Little (Navajo)
2008, 8 min. US

Save the Peaks: Sacred Sites March; Stick Mania; and Graffiti: Art or Vandalism?
Outta Your Backpack Media
2008, 12 min. US
Real Love
Deidra Peaches (Navajo)
Donavan Seschillie (Navajo)
2007, 4 min. US
NVision
Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Creek)
Ryan Red Corn (Osage)
2008, 5 min. US

5:00 pm

5:30 pm

EVENING PROGRAMS

7:00 pm

7 - 9:30 pm
El Grito de la Selva/Cry of the Forest

Alejandro Noza (Moxeño)
Nicolás Ipamo (Chiquitano)
Ivan Sanjinés
2008, 95 min. BOLIVIA

7 - 9:30 pm
Tkaronto
Shane Belcourt (Métis)
2007, 105 min. CANADA
Good Looking
Joseph Lazare (Mohawk)
2007, 21 min. CANADA

 

7:30 pm

8:00 pm

8:30 pm

9:00 pm

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Time

Auditorium

Diker Pavilion

Screening Room

12:00 pm

SEEKING JUSTICE
12 - 1:30 pm
El Juicio de Pascual Pichún/
Besieged Land

María Teresa Larrain
2007, 65 min. CHILE

FROM ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER
12 - 1:45 pm
Mémère Métisse/My Métis Grandmother
Janelle Wookey (Métis)
2008, 30 min. CANADA
Little Caughnawaga:
To Brooklyn and Back

Reaghan Tarbell (Mohawk)
2008, 57 min. CANADA/US

 

12:30 pm

FACING CHANGE
12:30 - 2:30 pm
Indian
Darryl Nepinak (Seaulteux)
2008, 2 min. CANADA
Making the River
SarahDel Seronde (Navajo)
2008, 83 min. US

1:00 pm

1:30 pm

SEEKING JUSTICE
1:40 - 2:50 pm
Acteal 10 Años de Impunidad y ¿Cuantos mas?/Acteal 10 Years of Impunity and How Many More?
José Alfredo Jiménez (Tsotsil)
2007, 45 min. MEXICO

2:00 pm

FROM ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER
2 - 2:45 pm
Canoe Pulling: A Lummi Way of Life
Sara London & Lummi Cedar Project Crew
2008, 7 min. US
Umiaq Skin Boat
Jobie Weetaluktuk (Inuit)
2008, 31 min. CANADA

2:30 pm

FACING CHANGE
2:45 - 4:15 pm
Reservation Soldiers
Lisa Jackson (Ojibwe)
2007, 48 min. CANADA

3:00 pm

FINDING OUR TALK
3 - 4 pm
History of the Iñupiat: Nipaa I!itqusipta/The Voice of Our Spirit
Rachel Naninaaq Edwardson (Inupiaq)
2008, 49 min. US

FROM ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER
3 - 4:30 pm
Lumbini Park
Eve-Lauryn LaFountain (Turtle Mountain Chippewa)
2008, 9 min. US
ati-wîcahsin/It's Getting Easier
Tessa Desnomie (Cree)
2007, 6 min. CANADA
The Little Prince
Vince Papatie (Algonquin)
2007, 6 min. CANADA
Ki-Hi-Ka Ste':
Life of Chief George Tall Chief

Amy Tall Chief (Osage)
2008, 16 min. US
A Return Home
Ramona D. Emerson (Navajo)
2008, 31 min. US

3:30 pm

4:00 pm

 

4:15 pm

FINDING OUR TALK
4:15 - 6 pm
Horse You See
Melissa Henry (Navajo)
2007, 8 min. US
Writing the Land
Kevin Lee Burton (Swampy Cree)
2007, 8 min. CANADA
Kanien'Keha:Ka/Living the Language
Paul M. Rickard (Cree)
Tracey Deer (Mohawk)
2008, 62 min. CANADA

4:30 pm

FROM ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER
4:45 - 6 pm
A Gente Luta mas Come Fruta/
We Struggle but We Eat Fruit

Bebito Piãko (Ashaninka)
Isaac Piãko (Ashaninka)
2006, 40 min. BRAZIL

FACING CHANGE
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Mokoĩ Tekoá Peteĩ Jeguatá/Two Villages, One Path
Ariel Ortega (Guaraní)
Jorge Motinico (Guaraní)
Germano Beñites (Guaraní)
2008, 63 min. BRAZIL

5:00 pm

5:30 pm

EVENING PROGRAMS

7:00 pm

7 - 9:30 pm
Moccasin Flats: Redemption
Rob King
2007, 96 min. CANADA

7 - 9:30 pm
Pachamama
Toshifumi Matsushita
2008, 104 min. BOLIVIA/JAPAN

 

7:30 pm

8:00 pm

8:30 pm

9:00 pm

CLOSING NIGHT CELEBRATION at SOUTHPAW

10:00 pm

125 Fifth Ave. @ Sterling Place
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Phone: 718-230-0236
spsounds.com

Celebrate with the filmmakers and participants in the 2009 Native American Film + Video Festival. Live musical performances by award-winning artists featured in films from the festival.

Scheduled artists:
BLACKFIRE
DEREK MILLER
LAURA ORTMAN
SAMANTHA CRAIN

Presented in association
with
Jim Jarmusch &
Big Soul Productions.

2:00 am

Image credit: From the film Sikumi/On the Ice - photograph by Cary Fukunag