Indigenous Shorts, Indigenous Feature, Indigenous Documentary, Indigenous Environmental Justice
Gesture Down (I Don't Sing)
The filmmaker shares a poetic and personal reflection of his journey south from California to Mexico in search of the “last†traditional Kumeyaay singer. The work was inspired by James Welch’s poem, “Gesture Down to Guatemala.â€.
Charlie Makes A Drum
At home in northern Quebec elder Charlie Etapp crafts a traditional Cree hunting drum and recalls his experiences hunting on the land.
Trudell
2005 Seattle International Film Festival Documentary Special Jury Award winner. A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell’s travels, spoken word performances and politics Directed by Heather Rae.
Chiefs
Directed by Daniel Junge, this documentary follows a Native American high-school basketball team's effort to win the state championship for Wyoming's Wind River Indian Reservation.
A Tattoo On My Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973
Co-directors Charles Abourezk and Brett Lawlor tells this dramatic and emotional story in the words of those men and women who struggled for survival inside the bunkers and ravines at Wounded Knee.
The Doe Boy
8-time festival winner, including 2001 American Indian Film Festival Best Film and Best Director. Set in the heart of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, The Doe Boy tells the story of Hunter, a young man of mixed parentage, who is never quite at home in the complicated circumstances of his life-including his hemophilia. Eventually he must find a way to be his own man, facing love, death, and the perils of his illness, Cheyenne director Chris Eyre.
The Winter Chill
Winner of Best Film and Best Director Honors at the 2006 Music and Film in Motion Awards. Filmmaker Paul Rickard tells the story of a young Cree man ventures to an unknown region of his father's trapline and meets Pakaaskokan, a supernatural Cree being who inhabits in the forest. With the encounter comes a shocking moment of realization about his life.