Holiday Film Screenings

Monday, December 19, 2011 – Sunday, January 2, 2012
2:00 pm
Diker Pavilion

Christmas in the Clouds

Holiday Film Screenings
Seasoned with Spirit:
Indigenous Foods

Monday, November 21 –Sunday, November 27, 2011
2:00 pm
Diker Pavilion

Return of the Buffalo
Bounty of the River’s Edge

Food, Celebration and Day of the Dead

Monday, October 24 - Sunday, November 6, 2011,
11:00 am, 12:00 pm, 1:00 pm, 2:00 pm, 3:00 pm, 4:00 pm
The Screening Room, Second Floor

Here I Am

Thursday, October 13, 2011, 6:30 pm
National Museum of the American Indian,
Auditorium

Join us for a sneak preview of Here I Am, the acclaimed first feature of Australian director Beck Cole (Lurita/Warrumunga). Together with the team behind Camera d’Or winner Samson & Delilah (Warwick Thornton and Kath Shelper), Cole has marked out a place as one of the most important filmmakers in Australian cinema.

Introduced by Faye Ginsburg, Director of the Center for Media, Culture and History at New York University (NYU).

Discussion follows with the director, producer Kath Shelper, and cinematographer Warwick Thornton (Kaytetye), moderated by Sonia Smallacombe (Maramanindji), Social Affairs Officer with the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations.

Reservations are recommended: FVC@si.edu or 212-514-3737.

This program is presented in partnership with New York University’s Center for Media, Culture and History and Center for Religion and Media and with MoCADA/Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art. Its current exhibition, curated by Bindi Cole (Wathaurung), Saying No: Reconciling Spirituality and Resistance in Indigenous Australian Art, is on view through November 6. For more information visit mocada.org.

We are grateful for the support of the Office of the Australian Consul General in New York and NYU’s Department of Anthropology and Native Studies Forum.

Conversations with the Earth:
Indigenous Voices on Climate Change

Saturday, October 1, 2011
1 – 5 pm
Auditorium

Photo essays and video projects from indigenous communities facing ecosystem disruption make up the collaborative project Conversations with the Earth (CWE).

Screenings include participatory media projects in Inuit (Canada), Yaqui (Mexico), Kuna (Panama), and Maasai (Kenya) communities, and the Igorots' struggle against oil companies in the Philippines and the impact of drought on the Gamo (Ethiopia). There will also be a premiere of images from CWE’s new photo essay on the mining of tar sands in Canada.

A roundtable discussion with indigenous leaders and CWE project participants from around the world will follow the screenings. Light refreshments will be served.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Conversations with the Earth: Indigenous Voices on Climate Change on view at the National Museum of the American Indian July 22, 2011 - January 2, 2012 at NMAI on the National Mall, Washington, DC.

For more information please visit: www.nmai.si.edu and www.conversationsearth.org/. For a copy of the Conversations with the Earth postcard, enter here. For a copy of the program, enter here.

SEEING INDIGENOUS Indigenous Art and Media Arts on Film

"Tsu Héidei Shugaxtutaan I" Saturday, May 7, 2011, 2:00 pm
Diker Pavilion

A program of art on film and a discussion of contemporary indigenous arts in Australia and North America features the New York premier of Home and Away, the first episode of the documentary series Art + Soul: A Journey into the World of Aboriginal Art (d. Warwick Thornton), and indigenous media arts from the U.S. and Canada selected by curator Mario A. Caro.

A conversation follows with Caro, media artist Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit), and Stephen Gilchrist (Inggarda), curator at the National Gallery of Victoria. Program co-hosts are Dr. Fred Myers, New York University Silver Professor and author of Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art, and Elizabeth Weatherford, director of NMAI’s Film and Video Center.

Seeing Indigenous, presented in coordination with the symposium “Essentially Indigenous: Contemporary Native Arts,” at NMAI on May 5 - 6, has been made possible with support from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and the NYU Native Peoples Forum. With great thanks to Dr. Faye Ginsburg of New York University, Kath Shelper of Scarlett Pictures, Art + Soul producer Brigid Ikin, Cultural Relations Manager Fiona Gosschalk of the Australian Consulate in New York, and NMAI curator Kathleen Ash-Milby (Navajo) for their assistance.

April 2010 - Corn is Life

In observance of Immigrant Heritage Week and Earth Day

From its domestication in the Mexico, to its widespread cultivation, corn literally has been both “life” for many indigenous people of the Americas, and a primary Native American food that changed the world. The trek of corn through the New World, the threat of agribusiness to small-scale farmers in Mexico and to the indigenous strains of corn they grow, the use of corn in ceremonies that nurture language and culture, and the good spirits that come from good eating are all evoked here.

Sunday, April 18 at 2:00 - 4:30 pm
Diker Pavilion, George Gustav Heye Center. Enter here for directions.

December 2009
Before Tomorrow

"Before Tomorrow" Before Tomorrow, the third film in a trilogy with Atanarjuat/The Fast Runner and Journals of Knud Rasmussen, will be shown at Film Forum, 209 W. Houston Street, New York City from December 2 - 15. On December 2 and 3 at all five screenings (1:15 pm, 3:15 pm,
5:40 pm, 7:45 pm and 9:45 pm) members of NMAI and of the American Indian Community House will be admitted at the same ticket price as members of Film Forum: $6. A membership card must be presented at the box office. Co-director Marie-Hélène Cousineau will be present at the 7:45 p.m. screenings on December 2, 3, and 4. For further information, please contact us at fvc@si.edu or visit www.filmforum.org.

November 2009
AAIA Short Film Showcase

"Lumbini Park" Thursday, November 12 at 6:00 pm. Auditorium, George Gustav Heye Center, One Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004. Enter here for directions.

In conjunction with the 86th annual meeting of its members, the Association of American Indian Affairs (AAIA) presents the 5th annual AAIA Short Film Showcase, in cooperation with NMAI. The program will be Introduced by Raquel Chapa (Lipan Apache/Yaqui/Cherokee), showcase programmer. The screenings will be preceded by a public reception at 5:00 pm hosted by AAIA and the American Indian Community House, 11 Broadway, 2nd floor.

Comanche Boy (2009, 3 min. trailer and sneak preview) US. Director: Thomas Yeahpau (Comanche). The AAIA’s first-ever Webisode follows Native American boxer George "Comanche Boy" Tahdooahnippah through some of the matches that led up to his undefeated 17-0 professional boxing record.
Anpetu Tokeca
Magic Wands
Lumbini Park
Canoe Pulling: a Lummi Way of Life
Open Season
Bad Indians
Shimásání

November 8, 2008
Health and Wellness

November 8 at 1:30 pm and 3:30 pm
Diker Pavilion, George Gustav Heye Center, One Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004. Enter here for directions.

Animations and a documentary from two national health and wellness projects focus on diabetes prevention in Native communities. Courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and of California Newsreel and PBS’ National Minority Consortia.

Eagle Books: Four Videos 32 min.
Unnatural Causes: Bad Sugar 29 min.

November 3, 2008
Frozen River, a Conversation with the Director

"Frozen River" Co-presented with New York Women in Film and Television

Monday, November 3 at 6:30 pm
Auditorium, George Gustav Heye Center, One Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004. Enter here for directions.

Join Courtney Hunt for a conversation about her passionate journey to create her first feature film, Frozen River, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Award-winning filmmaker Meryl Joseph (City Farmers and Mainstream) will moderate.

Shot in HD on a skeletal budget raised from nontraditional sources, Frozen River was sold to Sony Pictures Classics and released in theaters nationwide to critical acclaim. It was produced by Heather Rae and Chip Hourihan.

A gritty drama set in an upstate Native community, Frozen River features actors Melissa Leo and Misty Upham (Blackfeet), who has also appeared in Edge of America, Skinwalkers, and Skins.

For more information about New York Women in Film and Television please go to: www.nywift.org/

Free admission. Reservations are required. Please call 212 514-3737 or email FVC@si.edu.

AAIA Native Short Film Festival

Thursday, November 8, 2007,
6:30 pm
At the George Gustav Heye Center Auditorium. For directions, enter here.

The festival is hosted by the Association on American Indian Affairs in conjunction with the 84th annual meeting of the members. Film coordinator: Raquel Chapa (Lipan Apache/Yaqui/Cherokee). Free admission. For further information visit www.indian-affairs.org.