October 2006
 Filmmaker
Shonie De La Rosa (Navajo)
is the editor of the newspaper Kayenta Today and public
relations officer of Kayenta Township, Arizona, on the Navajo
Reservation. In 2005 he participated in the Institute of American
Indian Arts Summer Film and Television Workshop. Much of De La
Rosa's work is about addiction, including his documentary "G"
Methamphetamine on the Navajo Nation, produced for the Indian
Health Service, winner of the Best Public Service Award at the
2004 American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco. He has also
directed music videos. In 2001, his film Heart, Soul, and Sanity
won the Best Native American Video Award at the Seaside International
Film Festival in Withinsea, England.
"I believe that my work shows the beauty as well as the
ugliness of our land (Navajoland)."
Screened by NMAI
Image credit:
Shonie De La Rosa - courtesy of the filmmaker; Shonie and Andee
De La Rosa - courtesy of the filmmaker
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