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April 2006
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Carlos Peinado (Mandan/Hidatsa) is a documentary filmmaker
and the chair of the New Media Arts Department at the Institute
of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. In 2004 Peinado was selected
for Tribeca All Access Connects, a professional development program
for emerging filmmakers and at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival,
co-presented by NMAI's At the Movies series, he premiered his
first feature-length documentary Waterbuster. Peinado has
worked as the creative director of Native Peoples Magazine
and as the public relations coordinator of the American Indian
Community House in New York City. While in New York he also worked
as a field producer for WNBC. He has also acted in the TNT television
movies Broken Chain and Crazy Horse. Peinado attended
Phillips Exeter Academy. He received a BA in filmmaking and cultural
anthropology from Dartmouth College, and produced a thesis documentary
entitled Harry's House about the Hopi-Navajo land dispute.
He was raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and on the Fort Berthold Reservation
in North Dakota. Peinado lives in Santa Fe.
"Waterbuster weaves together the voices of those
who left the reservation and those who stayed, as well as the
voices of my grandmother's generation and my own. It doesn't attempt
to provide simple answers to the complex questions that brought
me to this project, but rather, it suggests that identity, history
and our complex relationship to the land on which we stand is
open-ended, plagued by ghosts and by injustice, and full also
of the possibility of renewal."
Screened by NMAI
Image credits:
J. Carlos Peinado - courtesy of the filmmaker
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