August 2004
 Cyndee
and David Wing have co-directed
several documentaries on Tohono O'odham traditions, including
Pride and the Power to Win and Toka, which won Best
Short Documentary at the 1994 American Indian Film Festival. David
Wing is a director of photography and an instructor in communications
at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona. He is a past president
of the Arizona Center for the Media Arts, which produces Tucson's
Arizona International Film Festival. Cyndee Wing works as a documentary
filmmaker and won the 2000 Leo B. Hart Humanitarian Award from
the Arizona Alumni Association. She is currently teaching video
production at Pima Community College. In 1991 and 1992 she taught
at Baboquivari School on the Tohono O'odham Reservation.
"We began working with the Tohono O'odham to produce documentary
films about their rich cultural traditions in the early 1970s.
Since that time we have used our talents to give the Tohon O'odham
another way of preserving their O'odham himdag [way of
life]."
Screened by NMAI
Image credit:
Cyndee and Dave Wing - courtesy of filmmakers
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