Friday, March 27, 2009

IDEAS AND INNOVATIONS IN NATIVE FILM AND MEDIA
NEW IN 2009

The Festival’s Native Networks Symposium is a unique gathering, bringing together Native film and video makers and cultural activists for lively conversations about concerns and achievements in indigenous film, and issues facing Native communities. The panels are free and open to the public with simultaneous interpretation, English to Spanish, and Spanish to English. All programs are subject to change.

NATIVE NETWORKS SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

National Museum of the American Indian
One Bowling Green, New York
Auditorium
Free admission.

11 am - 12:45 pm
Mobilizing for Survival
Native communities find themselves on the front lines in a struggle to maintain their lands, languages, and ways of life. Festival filmmakers explore issues facing Native peoples and indigenous action in response to these concerns: land and water rights, the suppression of indigenous media and indigenous movements, community work done to preserve indigenous language, and the impact of the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Moderator: Jose Barreiro (Taino), head of the Research Unit, National Museum of the American Indian

Panelists:

Tonya Gonnella Frichner (Onondaga), President, American Indian Law Alliance, New York
Mario Murillo, producer, WBAI Radio and associate professor, Hofstra University, for the the Northern Cauca Indigenous Association (ACIN), Colombia
Elías Paillán (Mapuche), Observatory for Indigenous Rights office and Jvken Mapu, Chile
Paul M. Rickard (Cree), executive producer, Finding Our Talk series, Canada and international

12:45 - 1:30 pm
Break

1:30 - 3 pm
Creating the Alternative: A Conversation with Four Directors

Whether deeply personal, deeply political, or engaged in special community settings, Native American filmmakers often work against the grain of the mainstream feature film world, seizing the space to present alternative views.

Moderator: Jason Silverman, director, Cinematheque of the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe

Panelists:

Chris Eyre (Cheyenne/Arapaho), director, We Shall Remain: Trail of Tears
Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Creek), director, Barking Water
Pavel Rodriguez (P’urhepecha), director, Xanchuka Ia/That Was All
Georgina Lightning (Cree), director, Older Than America

3:15 - 5 pm
Collaborations Across Borders

For the next wave of Native production a creative push is toward collaborations, figuring out how to work together, beyond borders, beyond continents, on multiple platforms that mix media with other creative forms. This panel presents several creative projects that explore creating partnerships with possibilities—to develop shared financing and/or new forms of distribution and/or greater involvement in film of a wider range of Native communities and their stories.

Moderator: Bird Runningwater, (Cheyenne), head of Native and Indigenous Initiatives, Sundance Institute

Panelists:

Laura Graham, Caimi Waiassé (Xavante) and David Hernández-Palmar (Wayuu), Owners of the Water Project, Brazil and Venezuela
Rachel Naninaaq Edwardson (Iñupiat), Dustinn Craig (White Mountain Apache/Navajo) and David Vadiveloo, Project Chariot, Alaska
Ivan Sanjinés and Marcelina Cárdenas (Quechua), CEFREC and CAIB, Bolivia
Laura Milliken (Ojibwe), executive producer, Big Soul Productions, Toronto
Ryan Red Corn (Osage), NVision, Colorado and Oklahoma