Upcoming Calls for Entry
Entry Deadline: September 9, 2011 (Entry fee)
Late Entry Deadline: October 17, 2011 (Late entry fee)
Festival: February 17-26, 2012
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Missoula, Montana
www.bigskyfilmfest.org/
Recent and Upcoming Festivals
Festival: June 1 - 4, 2011
Dreamspeakers Film Festival
Edmonton, Alberta
http://dreamspeakers.org/2011a/
Festival: June 3 - 5, 2011
Berkshire International Film Festival
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
www.biffma.com
Festival: June 15 - 19, 2011
Provincetown International Film Festival
Provincetown, Massachusetts
www.ptownfilmfest.org/
Festival: June 16 - 26, 2011
BAMcinemaFest
Brooklyn, New York
www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=3258
Festival: June 16 - 26, 2011
LA Film Fest
Los Angeles, California
www.lafilmfest.com
Festival: June16 - 30, 2011
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
New York, New York
www.hrw.org/iff
Festival: June 22 - 26, 2011
Nantucket Film Festival
Nantucket, Massachusetts
http://nantucket.slated.com/2011/
Festival: July 25 - August 3, 2011
Festival de Cine Rodolfo Maya
Community screenings in the Cauca and Valle de Cauca, Colombia, between July 25 and 30
Medellin, Colombia: July 25, 27, 29 and August 3
http://festivalrodolfomaya.blogspot.com/
Festival: August 2 - 9, 2011
First Peoples’ Festival/Présence autocthone
Montreal, Quebec
www.nativelynx.qc.ca
Festival: August 9 - 14, 2011
Festival de Cine Documental Latinoamericano A Cielo Abierto
Organized by the Centro pedagógico y cultural Simón I. Patiño
Cochabamba, Bolivia
http://www.apcbolivia.org/inf/noticia.aspx
Festival: August 15 - 21, 2011
Native Cinema Showcase
Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.nativenetworks.si.edu/eng/blue/ncsc_11.htm
Festival: August 15 - 21, 2011
New York International Latino Film Festival
New York, NY
http://nylatinofilm.com/
Festival: September 8 - 18, 2011
Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto, Ontario
www.tiff.net/thefestival/
Festival: September 14 - 18, 2011
All Roads Film Festival
Washington, D.C.
http://events.nationalgeographic.com/events/all-roads/film/
Festival: September 16 - 18, 2011
South Dakota Film Festival
Aberdeen, South Dakota
www.southdakotafilmfest.org/
Event: September 17 - 24, 2011
Translocaciones | Saberes híbridos | Hybrid Knowledges
A convocation on collaborative artistic practice organized by soft geographies_09
Mérida, Yucatán
http://yoochel.org/
Festival: October 19 - 23, 2011
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.santafeindependentfilmfestival.com/
Festival: September 21 - 25, 2011
Woodstock Film Festival
www.woodstockfilmfestival.com/
Festival: September 22 - 25, 2011
Tulsa International Film Festival
Tulsa, Oklahoma
www.tulsafilmfestival.org/
Festival: October 20 - 23, 2011
Santa Fe Film Festival
Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.santafefilmfestival.com/
Festival: October 2011 (Dates TBD)
Native Spirit Film Festival
UK and Spain
www.nativespiritfoundation.org/
Entries in English and Spanish accepted
Festival: November 11 - 28, 2011
forumdoc.bh.2011
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
www.forumdoc.org.br/2011/
At the Festivals and Forums
Awards and Native Works Selected
A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - M - N - O - P - R - S - T - V - W
For a list of individual awards and honors enter
here.
- Thanks to Daniel Grignon for contributing numerous updates
to this section.
A
All Roads Film Festival
September 24 - 28, 2008, Los Angeles, California
October 2 - 5, 2008, Washington D.C.
December 3 - 7, 2008, Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.nationalgeographic.com/allroads
12/01/08
American Indian Film Festival at Bellevue College
November 5 - 7, 2008, Bellevue, Washington
http://bellevuecollege.edu/aiff/
12/01/08
American Indian Film Festival
November 7 - 15, 2008, San Francisco, California
www.aifisf.com
12/01/08
Augsburg College Native American Film Series
Each year the Augsburg College Native American Film Series in
Minneapolis presents four kinds of film events: "Documentaries
at Augsburg" focusing on current and historical issues
in Indian country, "New Voices in Native Media" honoring
youth and new filmmakers, "Native American Voices"
presenting the current winners from the Fargo Film Festival,
and special events with regional tribal communities. All events
are free and open to the public.
www.augsburg.edu/ais/filmseries/
5/20/08
Available Light Film Festival
March 4 - 9, 2008, Whitehorse, Yukon
www.yukonfilmsociety.com
4/8/08
B
Awards at the Berlinale/Berlin International Film Festival,
February 7 - 17, 2008, included the Generation section's Crystal
Bear for Best Short Film to Nana, the story of a young
girl, by indigenous Australian director Warwick
Thornton. The Amnesty International Film Prize was awarded
to Sleep Dealer (director: Alex Rivera), a haunting and
imaginative foray into the near future in a story about a man
from an indigenous community in southern Mexico who works in
a border town which exports his labor via interactive electronics
to the United States. Other films with indigenous themes or
directors include the newly-restored feature The Exiles (director: Kent Mackenzie), the experimental short Shooting
Geronimo (director: Kent
Monkman) and short films from New Zealand in the Generation
section including Run (director: Mark Albiston), Taua/War
Party (director: Tearepa Kahi) and The Trophy (director:
Justine Simei-Burton).
8/19/08
C
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival
April 16 - 24, 2008, Austin, Texas
www.cinelasamericas.org
5/20/08
Cowichan International Aboriginal Film Festival
April 17 - 19, 2008, Duncan, British Columbia
http://aff.cowichan.net
5/20/08
D
DerHumALC (Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos)
April 24 - May 15, 2008, Santiago del Estero and Buenos Aires,
Argentina
www.derhumalc.org.ar
5/20/08
Dreamspeakers Film Festival
Festival: June 1 - 4, 2011
Edmonton, Alberta
http://dreamspeakers.org/2011a/
9/14/11
E
Encuentro Hispano Americano de Video Documental Independiente:
Contra el Silencio, Todas las Voces
April 9 - 12, 2008, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico
www.contraelsilencio.org
5/20/08
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
March 11 - 22, 2008, Washington, D.C.
www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org
4/8/08
F
Fargo Film Festival
March 5 - 8, 2008, Fargo, North Dakota'
www.fargofilmfestival.com
Includes "Native American Voices" program and awards.
4/8/08
Festival de Cine Rodolfo Maya
Festival: July 25 - August 3, 2011
Community screenings in the Cauca and Valle de Cauca, Colombia, between July 25 and 30
In Medellin, Colombia: July 25, 27, 29 and August 3
http://festivalrodolfomaya.blogspot.com/
9/14/11
Festival de Cine Documental Latinoamericano A Cielo Abierto
Organized by the Centro pedagógico y cultural Simón I. Patiño
Festival: August 9 - 14, 2011
Cochabamba, Bolivia
www.apcbolivia.org/inf/noticia.aspx
9/14/11
Festival Internacional de Cine y Video de los Pueblos Indígenas/
International Film and Video Festival of Indigenous Peoples
Organized by CLACPI (Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Cine
y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas)
September 10 - 20, 2008, La Paz, Bolivia
cefrec@gmail.com
www.clacpi.org (Spanish)
12/01/08
Festival of Native Film & Culture
Agua Caliente Cultural Museum
(formerly the Palm Springs Native American Film Festival and
Cultural Weekend)
March 5 - 9, 2008, Palm Springs, California
www.accmuseum.org/page49.html
4/8/08
First Peoples’ Festival/Présence autocthone
Festival: August 2 - 9, 2011
Montreal, Quebec
www.nativelynx.qc.ca
9/14/11
G
Global Green Indigenous Film Festival
April 18 - 20, 2008, Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.ntec.org
5/20/08
H
Hawaii International Film Festival
October 9 - 19, 2008, Honolulu and other sites, Hawaii
www.hiff.org
12/01/08
Hot Docs
April 17 - 27, 2008, Toronto, Ontario
www.hotdocs.ca
5/20/08
I
IDFA/International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
November 20 - 30, 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.idfa.nl/industry
12/01/08
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
October 15 - 19, 2008, Toronto, Ontario
www.imaginenative.org
12/01/08
Indigenous Film & Arts Festival
"Contact: Conflict and Accommodation"
October 7 - 12, 2008, Denver, Colorado
www.iiirm.org
12/01/08
Indigenous World Film Festival Organized by Alaska Native
Heritage Center
January 9 - 10, 2009, Anchorage, Alaska www.alaskanative.net/en/main_nav/plan_visit
/?calendar_events/indigenous_wff/
1/31/09
International Cherokee Film Festival
October 10 - 11, 2008, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
www.internationalcherokeefilmfestival.com
12/01/08
International Film and Video Festival of Indigenous Peoples
CLACPI/Coord. Latinoamericana de Cine y Comunicación
de los Pueblos Indígenas
September 10 - 20, 2008
La Paz and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
www.clacpi.org (Spanish)
M
Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival
November 14 - 16, 2008, American Museum of Natural History,
New York, New York
12/01/08
Morelia International Film Festival
October 4 - 12, 2008, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
www.moreliafilmfest.com
12/01/08
N
Native American Film Festival
April 13 - 15, 2008, Keene, New Hampshire
www.lakotafriends.org
5/20/08
Native Cinema Showcase
Festival: August 15 - 21, 2011
Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.nativenetworks.si.edu/eng/blue/ncsc_11.htm
9/14/11
The Native Experience Film Festival is took place on
January 19, 2008, at the Swinomish Youth Center in La Conner,
Washington, presented by the Skagit County Historical Museum.
Screenings included the feature film Expiration Date (director:
Rick Stevenson) and short works produced by the youth media
organization Longhouse Media/Native Lens. Featured guests include
the filmmakers and Swil Kanim, Robert Guthrie, Gene Tagaban, Tracey Rector, and Elaine
Miles.
2/18/08
Native Spirit Film Festival/El Festival Espiritu Nativo
October 19 - 28, 2008, London, England
www.nativespiritfestival.com
12/01/08
O
The 5th annual Oxford Brookes University Human Rights Film
Festival was held February 29 - March 9, 2008, in Oxford,
England. Films with indigenous themes included Indigenous
Peoples and the United Nations (director: Rebecca Somar), Rabbit Proof Fence (director: Phillip Noyes),
and Abya Yala: This Land is Ours from Bolivia.
For more information go to www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/be/cendep/humanrights.
2/25/08
P
The Provincetown International Film Festival, held June
17 - 21, 2008, screened approximately 50 short and feature films.
The HBO Audience Award for Best Feature was given to Frozen
River (director: Courtney Hunt), produced by Heather
Rae and starring Melissa Leo and Misty Upham. The film,
which is being distributed theatrically by SONY Pictures, is
the story of two single mothers, one white, one Mohawk, who
band together for economic survival by smuggling immigrants
into the United States through the border-free Akwesasne-St.
Regis Reservation. A second outstanding feature, with Native
director and cast, was Older
than America (director: Georgina
Lightning), with actors Adam
Beach, Lightning, and Wes
Studi, which focuses on the devastating impact on a Native
reservation of the boarding school experience.
8/19/08
R
Red Nation Film Festival
November 13 - 16, 2008, Los Angeles, California
www.rednation.com
12/01/08
Rotterdam International Film Festival
January 21 - February 1, 2009, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
http://professionals.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/.aspx
S
Sámi Film Festival
March 15 - 19, 2008, Kautokeino, Norway
www.samifilmfestival.no
4/8/08
Santa Fe Film Festival
December 3 - 7, 2008, Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.santafefilmfestival.com
1/31/09
Sundance Film Festival
January 15 - 25, 2009, Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah
www.sundance.org
1/31/09
T
Talking Stick Film Festival
June 21 - 26, 2008, Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.seedgraduateinstitute.org
6/30/08
Tribeca Film Festival
April 23 - May 4, 2008, New York, NY
www.tribecafilmfestival.org
5/20/08
V
Vancouver International Film Festival
September 25 - October 10, 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia
www.viff.org/home.html
12/01/08
W
Wairoa Maori Film Festival
May 30 - June 2, 2008, Auckland, Wellington and Taumarunui,
Aotearoa (New Zealand)
www.manawairoa.com
6/30/08
Weeneebeg Aboriginal Film and Video Festival
March 5 - 9, 2008, Moose Factory, Ontario
www.weeneebeg.ca
4/8/08
Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival
November 20 - 23, 2008, Winnipeg, Manitoba
www.aboriginalfilmfest.org
12/01/08
Other Festivals
BAMcinemaFest
Festival: June 16 - 26, 2011
Brooklyn, New York
www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=3258
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Festival: June16 - 30, 2011
New York, New York
www.hrw.org/iff
Nantucket Film Festival
Festival: June 22 - 26, 2011
Nantucket, Massachusetts
http://nantucket.slated.com/2011/
Provincetown International Film Festival
Festival: June 15 - 19, 2011
Provincetown, Massachusetts
www.ptownfilmfest.org
Image credit: Carlos Efraín Pérez being interviewed by Marcelino
Pinto, 2000 Native American Film and Video Festival - Photograph
by Amalia Cordova, NMAI |
