Director JOANELLE ROMERO

Short | USA | 30 mins

Narrated by Edward Asner

This is the only film to date that addresses the American Indian and Jewish Holocausts.

This powerful, hard-hitting documentary reveals the link between Adolf Hitler’s treatment of German Jews and the U.S. government’s treatment of American Indians depicts disturbing parallels between these two Holocausts and explores the historical, social and religious roots of America’s own “ethnic cleansing.” The film also examines, through the words and experiences of contemporary Indian people, the long term lasting effects of this on-going destructive process and the possible ramifications for the future of American Indian people in the 21st century.

** June 2016 Romero became a lifetime member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

Romero is the only Native filmmaker to make the Academy’s Documentary Branch shortlist in a preliminary round. Romero’s film was entered into the OSCARS for consideration in 2000 in which 22 short films were entered that year. Then the Academy’s Documentary Branch determined the shortlist in a preliminary round of voting in which 9 were chosen for consideration. “American Holocaust: When It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian” was part of that 9 chosen. Then five were nominated.

Romero received Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award in 2005 for “the vision to see the truth and the courage to speak it”

American Holocaust is very powerful and honest. It is probably more than most non-Indian people, and unfortunately, most Indian-people, want to acknowledge or hear. it is a laboring and sad truth that anyone who is truly Indian understands and lives with to some degree everyday. as polarizing as this movie is, it’s existence is critical for the hundreds of thousands of people that come to understand more about the real-story and for those that need to reflect and heal as they walk their own red-road. thanks for sharing these voices with me keep it up…

– Chris Eyre (Director of Smoke Signals, Skins, A Thousand Roads, Edge of America)

“American Indians have every right to despise white folks and curse us, rather than bless us. And yet, there are leaders like Romero who boggle the typical pedestrian mind. Like Nelson Mandela, she is a prime example of forgiveness in action. Mandela had every right to call for a bloodbath when he was finally released from prison in South Africa. Mandela-like, Romero stands on his mighty global shoulders and calls for oneness, love and what she describes as female energy.” –partial quote

– Ellen Snortland (former President of United Nations Association)

This film is Supported by: Rabbi Nahum Ward-Lev, Rabbi Debra Orenstein, Shoah Foundation, Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles & American Indian Communities.

Executive Producers: Joanelle Romero, Elizabeth Sage Galesi, Phillip M. Haozous, Teddy Parker, Kathleen Jones, David Aurbey, Windhollow Foundation.

AWARDS

2005 Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award for “the vision to see the truth and the courage to speak it”
2003 The Fargo Film Festival
2000 The American Indian Film Festival (San Francisco)

Monday, November 14, 2016
6:00pm to 7:10p

* Director in Person.  Q & A Session following screening.

Time/Location/Admission: https://rednationff.com/day-4/