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Thursday August, 16 to Sunday, August
19
Presented by the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American
Indian and the Center for Contemporary Arts.
 The
seventh Native Cinema Showcase explores issues of common concern
to indigenous people worldwide. From Chile to the Arctic Circle,
with stops throughout Native America, the filmmakers represented
at the showcase have made entertaining, insightful and timely
works that celebrate the growing presence of indigenous leadership,
culture and media on the global stage.
The showcase is produced by the Smithsonian's National Museum
of the American Indian (NMAI) and the Center for Contemporary
Arts (CCA) in cooperation with the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center,
the New Mexico Film Office, the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts
Festival, and the Gary Farmer Gallery of Contemporary Art.
Featured Works
Ticket Information
All shows, unless otherwise noted:
$8.50 general admission
$7.50 CCA and NMAI members, students, and seniors
$7 student and senior members
$75 Patron Pass, includes priority admission to all events
and the Filmmaker Brunch
$50/40 Festival Pass, includes priority admission to
all films and Opening Night Party
Box Office: Call 505-982-1338, or visit the Center
for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail
Info: Call 505-982-1338 or www.ccasantafe.org
Schedule
at-a-glance
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7:30 pm
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At the CCA Cinematheque -
$10
 Opening
Night screening.
Four
Sheets to the Wind with live music by Tamara
Podemski. Sterlin Harjo's (Seminole/Creek) sweet, smart
and restrained first feature was one of the hits at this
year's Sundance Film Festival, with lead actress Tamara
Podemski winning a Special Jury Prize for Acting. Preceded
by Kawdan's Song.
Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) stars and composed
the score for this story about a Native violinist. In person:
Sterlin Harjo, Tamara
Podemski, Annabel Wong,
Laura Ortman.
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9 pm
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At the CCA Cinematheque -
Free
Opening Night Reception. A dessert reception and
live music in the CCA lobby and porch. Master of ceremonies:
Wes Studi (Cherokee).
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6:30 pm
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At the CCA Cinematheque
 Best
of the Sami Film Festival
Home to the only drive-in intended for snowmobiles and reindeer,
featuring the world's first screen sculpted of ice, the
Sami Film Festival is also known for its fine program of
largely indigenous-produced works. This selection from the
2007 festival includes The
Wind Whispers There Is Someone Behind the Tundra,
Ailo Sets
Off North. In person: Solveig Joks (Sámi)
and Lars Ailo Gaup (Sámi).
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7:30 pm
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In the CCA Lobby - Free
Land Body Maps (Tierra Cuerpo Mapas)
Artist Leland Chapin of Los Colores Studio and performance
artist Rulan Tangen (Métis) of Dancing Earth collaborate
in a live art performance installation which includes on-site
collage, painting, video projection and dance, all merging
into a contemporary expression of indigenous resistance.
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8:15 pm
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At the CCA Cinematheque
Dancing
Earth: La Renaissance Indigene, an evocative
collage of the troupe called Dancing Earth. In person: Rulan
Tangen, Blackhorse Lowe
(Navajo).
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9 pm
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At the VFW -
$10
Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers
Renowned actor Gary Farmer
heads up this hard-rocking blues band. More about the group
at www.myspace.com/garyfarmerandthetroublemakers.
Tickets available at the door or through the Gary Farmer
Gallery.
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12 noon
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At the Gary Farmer Gallery -
Free
 Animation
Celebration!
NMAI annual 2007 Animation Celebration! presents delightful
works from Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the United States:
First Fire
, El
Fantasma de la Milpa/Phantom of the Milpa, El
Ultimo Elote/The Last Ear of Corn, Day
and Night, The
Beginning They Told, Tainá-Kan,
The Big Star, Raven
Tales: The Sea Wolf. Total running time: 72
minutes.
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2:30 pm
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At the CCA Cinematheque
 Weaving
Worlds
Bennie Klain (Navajo) explores the relationships between
Navajo rug weavers and white reservation traders. With Native
rugs—and knockoffs that look like them—increasingly
popular in the global marketplace, can weavers find artistic
validation, make a living and help maintain cultural continuity?
Preceded by Klain's Share
the Wealth and followed by an on-stage interview
with Bennie Klain and artist Nora Naranjo-Morse (Tewa, Santa
Clara Pueblo). In person: Bennie
Klain, Nora Naranjo-Morse.
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3 pm
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At the CCA Moving Image Lab
- Free
Paatuwaqatsi
The Hopi and Navajo mount a tremendous grassroots resistance
when Peabody Mining Company practices endanger their drinking
water, and in the process, the Hopi people rediscover an
ancient prayer for hard times: running. Victor Masayesva
(Hopi) follows an elder and a young girl who are among the
runners taking the message "water is life" to
the Fourth World Water Forum in Mexico City in 2006. In
person: Victor Masayesva,
Jr.
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4 pm
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At the Gary Farmer Gallery -
Free
 Emerging
Artists: Pump Up the Volume. Curated by Reaghan Tarbell
(Mohawk) of National Museum of the American Indian. Across
the hemisphere, filmmakers are using music to tell powerful
stories: Newen/Life
Force, No
Regrets, Fish
Out of Water, Memory
in Bones, Death
by Vibration, La
Cumbia del Mole, Spin,
Black Out,
Dust
Dive Music Video. Introduced by Margaret Sagan,
NMAI. Total running time: 40 minutes.
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5 pm
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At the CCA Cinematheque
Journals
of Knud Rasmussen
Zacharias Kunuk (Inuit)
and Norman Cohn direct
a new feature that illuminates the Inuit past (Atanarjuat:
The Fast Runner). Based on the true story of the
encounter of Avva, a great shaman and the explorer Knud
Rasmussen, himself half-Inuit, Journals explores the moment
when shamanism was overtaken by Christianity, forever changing
the lives of the Inuit. Introduced by Suzan Shown Harjo
(Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee), director of Morningstar Institute.
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6 pm
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At the Gary Farmer Gallery - Free
 Emerging
Artists: Identity Check. Curated by Jason Ryle (Saulteaux)
of imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. Native or white?
Gay or straight? Man or woman? Young filmmakers from Canada
explore issues of identity and hybridity in this collection:
Metrosexual
Indian, The
2nd Dumbest Question of the 20th Century, Meskanahk
(My Path), Demonstration
of Indianness #31, Through
the Looking Glass. Introduced by Jason Ryle.
Total running time: 49 minutes.
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7:30 pm
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At the CCA Cinematheque
 Imprint
First-time director Michael Linn and producer Chris Eyre
(Cheyenne/Arapaho), along with a smart and attractive cast,
weave Native mythologies into a Sixth Sense-style supernatural
thriller. This atmospheric, edge-of-your-seat film was shot
on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and on an allegedly
haunted buffalo ranch. In person: Michael
Linn, Chris Eyre.
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8 pm
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At the CCA Moving Image Lab -
Free
Novelist Evelina Zuni Lucero (Isleta Pueblo) and poet Jon
Davis host a cast of writers and poets who have taught at
the Institute of American Indian Arts.
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9 pm
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At the VFW - $10
Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers
Renowned actor Gary Farmer
heads up this hard-rocking blues band. More about the group
at www.myspace.com/garyfarmerandthetroublemakers.
Tickets available at the door or through the Gary Farmer
Gallery.
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12 noon
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At the CCA Moving Image Lab -
Free
 Animation
Celebration!
NMAI annual 2007 Animation Celebration! presents delightful
works from Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the United States:
First Fire
, El
Fantasma de la Milpa/Phantom of the Milpa, El
Ultimo Elote/The Last Ear of Corn, Day
and Night, The
Beginning They Told, Tainá-Kan,
The Big Star, Raven
Tales: The Sea Wolf. Total running time: 72
minutes.
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2:30 pm
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At the CCA Moving Image Lab
 Moose
TV
Sneak previews of three episodes of a new comedy television
series from Canada. A city slicker (Saulteaux actor Adam
Beach) starts up a community television station in a
tiny reservation town. Gary
Farmer (Cayuga) plays the ethically challenged mayor,
Nathaniel Arcand (Plains Cree) is a hottie cameraman and
Jennifer Podemski (Saulteaux)
a would-be femme fatale. In person: Gary
Farmer.
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3 pm
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At the CCA Cinematheque
 Cocalero
An incisive, up-close look at Evo Morales, the indigenous
Aymara front-runner in Bolivia's presidential race who will
make history in Latin America. Charismatic and down-to-earth,
he puts relief for the coca farmers affected by the U.S.
anti-coca campaign at the center of his platform.
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5 pm
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At the CCA Moving Image Lab
 Emerging
Artists: Pump Up the Volume. Curated by Reaghan
Tarbell (Mohawk) of National Museum of the American Indian.
Across the hemisphere, filmmakers are using music to tell
powerful stories: Newen/Life
Force, No
Regrets, Fish
Out of Water, Memory
in Bones, Death
by Vibration, La
Cumbia del Mole, Spin,
Black Out,
Dust
Dive Music Video. Introduced by Margaret
Sagan, NMAI. Total running time: 40 minutes.
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5:30 pm
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At the CCA Cinematheque
Trudell
A reprise of one of the biggest hits from past showcases,
with the great John Trudell
(Santee Sioux) in person to discuss his life and work. This
award-winning film traces the life of an American icon who
has proven himself fearless in confronting the ugly realities
of American life and culture.
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6 pm
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At the CCA Moving Image Lab
 Emerging
Artists: Identity Check.
Curated by Jason Ryle (Saulteaux) of imagineNATIVE Film
+ Media Arts Festival. Native or white? Gay or straight?
Man or woman? Young filmmakers from Canada explore issues
of identity and hybridity in this collection: Metrosexual
Indian, The
2nd Dumbest Question of the 20th Century, Meskanahk
(My Path), Demonstration
of Indianness #31, Through
the Looking Glass. Introduced by Jason Ryle.
Total running time: 49 minutes.
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Event Locations
- CCA Cinematheque, Moving Image
Lab, and CCA Lobby
1050 Old Pecos Trail • Santa Fe, NM
505-982-1338 • www.ccasantafe.org
- VFW Post 2951
307 Montezuma Street • Santa Fe, NM
Educational Programs
Presented in conjunction with the New Mexico Film Office
For a PDF of the flyer, enter
here.
Thursday, August 16, 9 am
- 5 pm
Moviemaking Intensive
Angelique Midthunder,
Chris Eyre, Tobi Ives and David
Midthunder lead youth aged 8-18 in setting up, rehearsing and
filming a scene using professional equipment. Students will
also meet with filmmakers and learn about the possibilities
in moviemaking as a career.
Thursday, August 16 and Friday, August
17, 9 am - 5 pm
Animation Workshop
Chris Kientz (Cherokee),
the producer of the series Raven Tales, and his crew
of animators lead a two-day animation intensive for students
age 8-18.
Partner Festival
Saturday, August 11 and Sunday, August
12
The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center presents
Southwest Indian Film Theater 2007
 A
weekend of the best Native cinema from the past, present and
future! Programs include Animation Celebration!; the documentary
Waterbuster,
with director Carlos Peinado
(Mandan/Hidatsa) in person; the SWIFT Reception and an outdoor
screening of Powwow
Highway. Tickets are $3 per day, plus $5 for the SWIFT
Reception. For a complete schedule call IPPC at 505-724-3519
or email: tmccullah@indianpueblo.com.
The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center is located at 2401 12th St.
NW in Albuquerque.
Poster Artist
Poster artist: Micah Wesley
Born in Albuquerque in 1978, Micah Wesley (Creek/Kiowa) has
been making pictures since childhood. Since selling his first
painting to buy a Nintendo Entertainment System he has worked
in many media: acrylic, prismacolor pencil, enamel, alabaster,
clay, wood, small metals and photography. Micah also enjoys
being a DJ and riding his single speed bike.
Presenting Organizations
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN AND THE NMAI FILM
& VIDEO CENTER
Chartered by Congress in 1989 as the 18th museum of the Smithsonian
Institution, the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)
preserves, presents, and celebrates the Native cultures of the
Americas. For more information, please visit www.americanindian.si.edu.
The NMAI Film and Video Center (FVC) presents screenings and
information services concerning Native films, video, radio,
television, and electronic media throughout the Americas and
Hawai'i. Projects include: the Native Networks initiative and
bilingual Website; the biennial Native American Film and Video
Festival; two annual screening series, At the Movies in New
York and Washington, D.C., and the Native Cinema Showcase; and
film and video tours. The FVC is headquartered at NMAI in New
York with staff and programs also in the NMAI's museum on the
National Mall in Washington, D.C.
THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS AND THE CCA CINEMATHEQUE
Through its film, media, visual, and performing arts and interdisciplinary
programming, the CCA provides a forum to promote the exploration
of new ideas in contemporary art and thought. CCA supports visual
artists, performers, filmmakers, and other creative people who
work in exploratory ways, sparking dialogues and collaborations
in and beyond the Santa Fe community. The CCA Cinematheque has
screened the best in new and classic cinema daily since 1984.
Visit www.ccasantafe.org
for more information.
Staff
Festival Committee: For the NMAI: Elizabeth Weatherford
(Founder and Director, Film and Video Center), Reaghan Tarbell,
Margaret Sagan, Charmaine Jackson-John. For the CCA Cinematheque:
Jason Silverman (Director, Film Programming), Michelle Svenson,
Jason Ryle (imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival), Filip
Celander.
CCA Staff: Meghan Henshaw, Jill Battson, Lisa Pelletier.
NMAI Staff: Wendy Allen, Amalia Cordova, Patrick Glynn,
Millie Seubert.
Thanks
Frieda and Jim Arth, Lucius Barr, Faye Brown, Buena Onda Americas,
Ann-Irene Buljo, Cosmo Cardozo, Amalia Cordova, Gary Farmer,
Patrick Glynn, Dan Grignon, Jan Erik Holst, Jefferson John,
Ted Kroeber, Deborah Lamal, Tazbah McCullah, Native Lens, New
Mexico Film Office (Lisa Strout, Director; Jodi Delaney Program
Director), Sierra Ornelas, Tracey Rector, Reuben Ringlero, Julia
Solomonoff, Melissa Sanchez, Lisa Sarenduc, Millie Seubert,
Ron Solimon, Sami Film Festival, Julia Solomonoff, Maura Studi,
Wanda Vanderstoop, Håkon Isak Vars, Vtape
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Image credit: Audience
at Plan B Cinematheque during discussion after A House Made
of Dawn - photograph by Amalia Cordova; Native Cinema Showcase
poster by Micah Wesley - courtesy of the Gary Farmer Gallery;
Four Sheets to the Wind - Chuck Foxen; Ailo Sets Off
North; El Ultimo Elote/The Last Ear of Corn; Weaving
Worlds - courtesy of Nancy Schiesari; No Regrets; Metrosexual
Indian (2005) - courtesy of Vtape; © 2007 Imprint;
Tainá-Kan, The Big Star; Moose TV; Cocalero;
Newen/Life-Force; Trudell - photograph by Gregory
Bayne; The 2nd Dumbest Question of the 20th Century (2004)
- photograph by Marcel Fayant, courtesy of Vtape; Waterbuster
- courtesy of J. Carlos Peinado
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