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August
2004
High school student Tazbah Chavez
(Bishop Paiute/Navajo/San Carlos Apache) has been writing
poetry since she was nine years old and has performed at numerous
poetry slams. She is also a jazz and powwow dancer. Through the
Akatubi Film and Music Academy, she has made experimental video
that combines visual montage with her own music and poetry. Composure,
her first video, won Best Experimental at the 2004 LocoMotion
International Film Festival in Salt Lake City, Utah. At Globalfest
2003, in Redlands, California, Chavez was honored as Best First
Time Director. She grew up in Bishop, California, a town adjacent
to the Bishop Paiute Reservation, and has also lived in Albuquerque,
New Mexico.
"I just have a liking for art in general, drawing, writing,
music. Through the TANF program-it's a film academy that comes
through Bishop-they showed me a way to combine all those things
and that's what made me really want to make a film. To have those
individuals who watched my work tell me that it affected them
and that they were really connected, that's exactly what I want
to do."
Screened by NMAI
Image credit:
Audience at Club Red Radio, 2000 Native American Film and Video
Festival - Photograph by Amalia Córdova, NMAI
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