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U.S. Premiere DOCUMENTARY | United States | 75 MINUTES | English The Doctrine of Recovery Since 1493, the so-called ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ has justified the dispossession and decimation of the Indigenous inhabitants of North America and brought us to our present environmental breaking point. Through the voices of four Indigenous women, the film presents a […]
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West Coast Premiere DOCUMENTARY | United States | 52 MINUTES | English, Spanish Native Horse Native Horse from the Documentary Series Mustangs & Renegades features: Raoul Trujillo, Adam Joaquin Gonzalez, Robert Mirabal, and American Indian Elders: Saginaw Grant, Dr. Scott N. Momaday, Michael Horse and Tokala Black Elk. Filmed on some of the most beautiful […]
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Los Angeles Festival Premiere DOCUMENTARY | Canada | 103 MINUTES | English Trapper Radio Series A 5 part film series showcasing 20 + NWT artists in their local regions talking about their art, living through the pandemic, and sharing stories and music about their connections to the north and the land. CAST & CREDITS Directed […]
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International Premiere DOCUMENTARY | Canada | 45 MINUTES | English, Western Canadian Inuktitut Okpik: Little Village in the Arctic Using local materials and traditional knowledge Inuit/Gwich’in Hunter, Kylik Kisoun will re-establish and re-imagine the lost practice of building an Inuvialuit sod-house with the intention of creating housing security in his traditional territory of the Beaufort […]
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Los Angeles Festival Premiere DOCUMENTARY | United States | 57 MINUTES | English Older Than The Crown Older Than The Crown follows the trial of Sinixt tribal member Rick Desautel who in 2010 was charged with hunting as a non resident and without a proper permit in Canada. Rick harvested an elk on the ancestral […]
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Los Angeles Festival Premiere DOCUMENTARY | United States | 59 MINUTES | English Voices of the Wisdom Keepers A new hour-long documentary featuring four prolific indigenous elders from Turtle Island (North-America) and West Africa sharing wisdom-keys for creating a better world for future generations. CAST & CREDITS Directed by Quincy Davis Quincy Davis is a […]
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Los Angeles Festival Premiere DOCUMENTARY | United States | 55 MINUTES | English NEW: ART is Culture, CULTURE is Art “One man changes the way a small ranch town fits into the world, by developing a ‘New’ way art is experienced through color and fashion”. As indigenous fashion continues to demand the attention of the […]
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Los Angeles Festival Premiere DOCUMENTARY | United States | 56 MINUTES | English Bring Her Home Bring Her Home follows three Indigenous women – an artist, an activist, and a politician – as they fight to vindicate and honor their missing and murdered relatives who have fallen victims to a growing epidemic across Indian country. […]
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Los Angeles Festval Premiere DOCUMENTARY | United States | 75 MINUTES | English, Navajo, Spanish Powerlands A young Navajo woman investigates displacement of Indigenous people in several countries, and devastation of the environment, caused by the same chemical companies that have exploited the land where she was born. On this personal and political journey she […]
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Los Angeles Festival Premiere DOCUMENTARY SHORT | United States | 40 MINUTES | English Faces From The Interior In 1833 and 1834, Karl Bodmer, traveled along the Upper-Missouri as part of the Prince Maximilian expedition. The images that Bodmer sketched and painted are historical art documents that are iconic in present day America. Faces From […]
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Los Angeles Festval Premiere FEATURE | Mexico | 75 MINUTES | Seri Seven Ridges Drama In a desert by the sea, an ancient culture endures modernity. A grandmother and her granddaughter intertwine in estrangement over memory. The myth sheds controversy; time falls in dreams of sand, old songs and rock music. First full-length feature drama […]
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Festival Premiere / Retrospective FEATURE | United States | 85 MINUTES | English CATCH THE FAIR ONE Crime, Thriller A former champion boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister. CAST & CREDITS Directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka Josef Kubota Wladyka is a film and television […]
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Opening Night / Festival Premiere FEATURE | United States | 81 MINUTES | English A LOVE SONG Drama At a campground in the rural West, a woman waits alone for an old flame from her past to arrive, uncertain of his intentions while bashful about her own. In a rare lead role, Dale Dickey, one […]
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The American Indian Heritage Month Award Past recipients Congresswoman Deb Haaland 2019 Native American Women Warriors 2015 Idle No More 2013 Ernie Stevens Jr 2012 Larry Meyers 2010 Rebecca Robes 2009 James Ramos San Manuel Band of Mission Indians 2009 Bill Richard State of New Mexico Governor 2008 Alvin Warren Department of Indian Affairs State […]
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The Courage Award Past recipients Jen Martel 2022 Eugene Tapahe Jingle Dress Project 2021 Montano Rain 2019 Keri Pickett 2015 Joann Stokan 2014 Montano Rain Eugene Tapahe Jingle Dress Project
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