Red Nation Celebration Institute Podcasts Series is an episodic series with a focus on the Native and Indigenous narrative.  Currently, RNCI Podcast Series can now be heard at Red Nation Television Network and Red Nation Film Youtube Channel. 

Podcasts consists of live virtual play readings, conversation series with directors, producers, actors. 

First RNCI Podcasts Series with USC Bedrosian Center (In-person from 2017-2019) 

RNCI Red Nation International Film Festival and USC podcasts: Release dates: October 8, 15, 22 and 29, 2018.

[PODCAST NEWS] airdate: OCTOBER 15, 2018
WE ARE BIRDS  The California Indian Story

For many indigenous people living in the US today, the past had been cut off from them. We Are Birds Director Albert Chacon discovered this history through the tradition of birdsinging – bird songs are the oral tradition of passing down the family’s story through song and dance. The old rituals designed to keep history and spirit of the family and tribe alive.

As Chacon discovered the traditions, he began talking with other birdsingers and discovered others in the same situation. There men and women were also finding out about their history through this tradition and building new ways to (re)create ritual and community meaning. We Are Birds is the result of interviews at powwows and other events on Southern California reservations.

Here is our conversation with Chacon and several birdsingers in this documentary. Thanks to so much to everyone involved in the podcast, what a joyous conversation!

If you haven’t seen the documentary, beware, we do talk about the whole film and there may be spoilers.

Host Jonathan Schwartz is joined by :

Albert Chacon (Writer, Director, Editor)
Derek Duro (Head Birdsinger, Dancer)
Frankie Morreo (Birdsinger, Dancer)
Joanelle Romero (Founder, CEO Red Nation Celebration Inst, Red Nation Film Festival)
Chris Finley (USC Assistant Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity)

If you haven’t seen the documentary, beware, we do talk about the whole film and there may be spoilers.

@BedrosianCenter, @jonHLYP, @CaliNDN , @NDNCinema

Links

Watch the film on vimeo!
We Are Birds on Facebook
Tribal Nations Maps
The Exiles

Listen to individual episodes on the Price Projection Room page, or subscribe at ApplePodcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app.

This podcast is part of a series on Indigenous films in partnership with the Red Nation Celebration Institute, and the Red Nation Film Festival. It is brought to you by Price Video Services and USC Bedrosian Center, and continues ongoing efforts to bring policy and its impact into the public discourse.

Sound supervision by the Brothers Hedden.

[PODCAST NEWS] airdate: OCTOBER 22, 2018
WIND RIVER the movie & #WhyWeWearRED #MeTOO #TimesUP

TAKE A LISTEN: http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/7278578/tdest_id/818063

Description

Wind River, written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, is the story of Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner), a wildlife officer who finds the body of an 18-year-old woman on an American Indian reservation in snowy Wyoming. Young FBI agent Jane Banner (Elizabeth Olsen) arrives to investigate. This Florida native must work with Lambert as a guide, to get to the bottom of why a young woman would run miles, barefoot, in the late night snow. Cory is also haunted by the death of his teen daughter just a few years prior to the opening of the film. He finds that must help Banner confront the violence young women face on the Wyoming reservation.

As follow up to our discussion of the film, Wind River, we are joined by partners in the Native Women in Film & Television organization. Native Women in Film & Television is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting equal opportunities for American Indian & Indigenous women, encouraging the creative narrative by native women, exploring and empowering portrayals of women in all forms of global media, expanding empowerment initiatives for native women and girls, in the arts, media, social justice, civic engagement, economic empowerment, research, training and international relations.

We discuss why some organizations supporting Native Women find their struggle portrayed in Taylor Sheridan’s film. Why it resonates with many native women and how it might support the #WhyWeWearRed, #TimesUp, and #MeToo online movements to recognize trauma affecting millions of women.

If you haven’t seen the movie, beware, this podcast has spoilers.

Host Jonathan Schwartz is joined by Chris Finley, Joanelle Romero, Michelle D. Schenandoah, and Lucy Simpson

Find us on Twitter: @BedrosianCenter,  @NDNCinema,‏ @jonHLYP, @niwrc @MichelleSchena1 @USCDornsife

This podcast is part of a series on Indigenous films in partnership with the Red Nation Celebration Institute, and the Red Nation Film Festival. It is brought to you by Price Video Services and USC Bedrosian Center, and continues ongoing efforts to bring policy and its impact into the public discourse.

Sound supervision by the Brothers Hedden.

1st Episode

Wind River, written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, is the story of Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner), a wildlife officer who finds the body of an 18-year-old woman on an American Indian reservation in snowy Wyoming. Young FBI agent Jane Banner (Elizabeth Olsen) arrives to investigate. This Florida native must work with Lambert as a guide, to get to the bottom of why a young woman would run miles, barefoot, in the late night snow. Cory is also haunted by the death of his teen daughter just a few years prior to the opening of the film. He finds that must help Banner confront the violence young women face on the Wyoming reservation.

If you haven't seen the movie, beware, this podcast has spoilers.

Host Jonathan Schwartz is joined by Chris Finley, Aubrey Hicks, and David Washofsky.

Find us on Twitter: @BedrosianCenter, @AubreyHi,  @NDNCinema, @USCSDA ‏ @USCCinema
@jonHLYP

2nd Episode

As follow up to our discussion of the film, Wind River, we are joined by partners in the Native Women in Film & Television<https://nativewomeninfilm.com/> organization. Native Women in Film & Television is  a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting equal opportunities for American Indian & Indigenous women, encouraging the creative narrative by native women, exploring and empowering portrayals of women
in all forms of global media, expanding empowerment initiatives for native women and girls, in the arts, media, social justice, civic engagement, economic empowerment, research, training and international relations.

We discuss why some organizations supporting Native Women find their struggle portrayed in Taylor Sheridan’s film. Why it resonates with many native women and how it might support the #WhyWeWearRed, #TimesUp, and #MeToo online movements to recognize trauma affecting millions of women.

If you haven't seen the movie, beware, this podcast has spoilers.

Host Jonathan Schwartz<https://bedrosian.usc.edu/author/jonls/> is joined by Chris
Finley<https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/ase/faculty_display.cfm?person_id=1074693>,
Joanelle Romero<https://www.joanelleromero.com/>, Michelle D.
Schenandoah<https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-schenandoah>, and Lucy
Simpson<http://www.niwrc.org/content/lucy-rain-simpson>

Find us on Twitter: @BedrosianCenter<https://twitter.com/BedrosianCenter>, 
@NDNCinema<https://twitter.com/NDNCinema>,‏ @jonHLYP<https://twitter.com/jonHLYP>,
@niwrc<https://twitter.com/niwrc>
@MichelleSchena1<https://twitter.com/MichelleSchena1>
@USCDornsife<https://twitter.com/USCDornsife>

For links and more, see the
showpage<https://bedrosian.usc.edu/ppr/wind-river-nativewomenfilmtv>.

The opinions of activists on this podcast are  expressed as those of the speakers individually, and do not necessarily reflect those of USC, the USC Bedrosian Center, or Price Video Services.

This podcast is part of a series on Indigenous films in partnership with the Red Nation Celebration Institute<http://rednationcele.org/index/>, and the Red Nation Film Festival<https://rednationff.com/>. Itis brought to you by Price Video Services<https://www.usc.edu/pvs> and USC Bedrosian
Center<https://bedrosian.usc.edu/>, and continues ongoing efforts to bring policy and its impact into the public discourse.

Sound supervision by the Brothers Hedden.