FESTIVAL PREMIERE
Sounds of a Legacy
Director: January Marie Rogers
Lead singer/songwriter of the iconic band called The Band, Robbie Robertson had cultural and musical roots from his Haudenosaunee Indigenous community, Six Nations of the Grand River in southern Ontario Canada. Absorbing the rootsy, gutsy, earth-inspired rhythms from his Mother’s family on Six Nations, Robbie Robertson found his voice and sound and took it with him on the road to create what was dubbed Americana music. Back home many more generations of musicians both traditional and contemporary perpetuate a sound they are still shaping and defining called the Six Nations sound. We follow a newly formed super-group of Haudenosaunee musicians in a song camp as they write, from scratch, a song inspired by and dedicated to Robbie Robertson and the Six Nations people.
CAST & CREDITS
Director
January Marie Rogers
Writer
January Marie Rogers
Producer
January Marie Rogers
Key Cast
Sadie Buck
DIRECTORS STATEMENT
With this important documentary, we are not endeavouring to answer the question; “What is the Six Nations sound” but rather exploring and discovering with the viewers what it is, how it started, where it’s gone, what is it now and where it can possibly go. It’s an inside look at the musical voice of one Indigenous community from those culturally invested in the Haudenosaunee collective musical voice.
DIRECTORS BIO
January Rogers is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer and media producer. She lives on her home territory of Six Nations of the Grand River where she operates Ojistoh Publishing and Productions. January combines her literary talents with her passion for media making to produce audio and video poetry. Her video poem Ego of a Nation won Best Music Video at the American Indian International Film Festival 2020 and her audio work The Battle Within won Best Experimental Audio with imagineNative International Film and Media Festival 2021. She is a literary mentor with Audible, the Indigenous Writers Circle Program since 2022. January wrote a 10-episode comedy series NDNs on the Airwaves (found on the Ojistoh youtube channel) and her play Blood Sport, a comedy about the pretendian crisis in Indian Country has received numerous stage readings and was published by Turtle’s Back Publishing in 2023. January received the Indigenous Niagara Outstanding Achievement Award in 2025 in the Performing Arts category. She is also a nominee for the 2025 Ontario Arts Council Indigenous Arts Award.
Returning Filmmaker
Showtimes
Thursday, November 12
Screening: 10:00 pm
In Person
Post Screening Guests: —
Once Purchased
your name will be at ‘Will Call’
AMC The Grove 14
189 The Grove Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Parking
At The Theatre
