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"Well researched and superbly produced,
this documentary is truly successful in
sharing
native reality and environmental
knowledge
with many people."
–Professor
Donald L. Fixico, Distinguished
Foundation Professor of History, Arizona State University
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Blackhorse Lowe
Fifth World
Conversion
Divided
By Zero
Gesture Down
(I Don't Sing)
Share the Wealth
Metrosexual Indian
Demonstration of Indianness #31
Sterlin Harjo
Four Sheets to the Wind
For more information, contact:
Prof. Janis (Jan) Johnson
janjohn@uidaho.edu
Department of English and American Indian Studies
University of Idaho Moscow, ID 83844-1102
(208) 885-7743 or (208)
882-0109
To view the:
2003 Film Festival
2004 Film Festival
2005 Film Festival
2006 Film Festival
2007 Film
Festival
Sapatq'ayn Cinema is under the direction of Jan Johnson,
faculty member of the English Department and American Indian Studies Program.
Sapatq’ayn Cinema Committee:
Kim Mattheson and Jan Johnson
Qe’ci’yew’yew’ (Thank You) to all who helped make this program
possible.
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Schedule:
Wednesday March 26 at 7:00 pm:
Teachings of the Tree People: The Work
of Bruce Miller
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Opening Night Ceremonial,
Movie and Dialogue
- Opening Prayer: Horace
Axtell (Nez Perce)
- Opening Song:
Palouse Falls Drum
- Opening
Remarks: Prof. Jan Johnson
- Teachings of the Tree People:
The Work of Bruce Miller((2006, 58 min.)
US
Director: Katie Jennings
Producer: Tracy Rector (Seminole)
Bruce Miller—who was also known by the Skokomish name subiyay—lived
in New York in the 1970s, working in Native American theater and as
a member of the La MaMa Experimental Theater. Miller later returned
home to the Skokomish Reservation to devote his life to passing on
the language, art, and traditional knowledge of his people.
Remarks and discussion with WSU Professor Michael. Pavel
(CHiXapKaid - Skokomish), the nephew of Bruce
Miller, and a specialist in Native American Post-Secondary Education.
Free of
charge.
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Thursday March 27 at 7:00 pm:
An Evening with Filmmaker Blackhorse
Lowe
Fifth World
Blackhorse Lowe (Navajo), 30, has been telling stories with a camera
since the age of nineteen. Training first in photography and painting,
he is currently working on his second feature film. His first feature
film, Fifth World--the Navajo's current world--premiered at the Sundance
Film Festival in 2005.
Although Lowe’s movies emerge out of his American Indian heritage, that
is not the main concern of his films. With cinematic influences ranging
from cartoons and Westerns to Jean-Luc Goddard and Francois Truffaut,
Lowe is creating his place in the avant-garde film industry.
Fifth World
(2005, 75 min.) US
Director and Writer: Blackhorse Lowe (Navajo)
Actors: Liva'ndrea Knoki, Sheldon Silent Walker, Ernest Tsosie III,
Corey Allison
Music: Corey Allison (Navajo/Colorado River Tribes)
In English and Navajo with English subtitles.
In this edgy first feature, Andrei and Aria, whose
romance takes flight as they hitchhike together across the rez, find
that their tribal culture will affect their bond in powerful and
unexpected ways.
- Discussion
with Writer/Director Blackhorse Lowe
Free of
charge.
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Friday March
28 at 7:00 pm:
Short Films from the
National Museum of the American Indian 2007 Film Festival
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Conversion
(2006, 8 min.) US
Producer: Courtney Schmidt
Director: Nanobah Becker (Navajo)
Actors: Charmaine Jackson-John, Simone Frazier, Deidra Castillo
In Navajo with English subtitles.
In a
remote corner of the Navajo nation, circa 1950, a visit by
Christian missionaries has catastrophic consequences for a
family.
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Sunshine
(2005, 8 min.) US
Director: Elizabeth Day (Ojibwe)
Writer: Wenonah Wilms (Ojibwe/Dakota)
Actors: Stephanie Barton, Lisa DeCory, Bronson Fairbanks, Kelly
Gillpatrick, Albert WhitefeatherWith a tender gesture, a young
social worker connects to her elderly Native client.
Divided by Zero
(2006, 16 min.) CANADA
Director: Danis Goulet (Cree/Métis)
Actors: Tinsel Korey, Pamela Mathews, Kit Weyman
A teenage girl builds a tipi in her bedroom in an attempt to
assert her "cultural authenticity."
From Cherry English
(2004, 10 min.) CANADA
Director: Jeff Barnaby (Mik'maq)
A visually startling allegory about the loss of language and
identity.
Gesture Down (I Don't Sing)
(2006, 10 min.) US
Director: Cedar Sherbert (Kumeyaay)
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.”
Share the Wealth
(2006, 7 min.) US
Director: Bennie Klain (Navajo)
Actors: Casey Camp-Horinek, Wade Rowland
A Native woman on an urban street encounters stereotyped
misunderstanding in this poignant drama and ironic parable.
Metrosexual Indian
(2005, 4 min.) CANADA
Director: Terrance Houle (Blood)
Slick and sexy, with a coffee in one hand and a cell phone in the
other - what does it mean to be an "Indian" in the 21 century?
Demonstration of Indianness #31
(2006, 4 min.) CANADA
Director: Adam Garnet Jones (Cree/Métis)
An exploration of ethnicity and history using 1950s footage.
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Discussion with Audience
Free of
charge.
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Saturday March 29 at 7:00 pm:
The Films
Director Sterlin Harjo
- Goodnight Irene
(2004, 14 min.) US
Director: Sterlin Harjo (Creek/Seminole)
Producer: Chad Burris (Chickasaw)
Actors: Casey Camp-Horinek, Robert Guthrie, Jon Proudstar
Two young men have a life-changing encounter with an
elder in the waiting room of an Indian Health Service clinic.
Four Sheets to the Wind
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91 min.) US
Director: Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Creek)
Producer: Chad Burris (Chickasaw)
When Cufe Smallhill (Cody Lightning) finds his
father dead beside a bottle of pills, he fulfills his promise to
sink the body in the family pond. The action begins, leading Cufe to
the big city of Tulsa with his sister Miri (Tamara Podemski).
Four Sheets to the Wind had its World Premiere at the 2007
Sundance Film Festival where Tamara Podemski (Saulteaux) won the
Special Jury Award for Acting. Director Sterlin Harjo is a Sundance
Institute Annenberg Fellow and a 2006 Renew Media Fellow. Producer
Chad Burris has been a selected to participate in Sundance
Institute's Producers Lab.
Dicussion
with Audience
Free of
charge.
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All screenings are at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre in Moscow,
Idaho
508 South Main at 7:00 pm
All are Free and Open to the Public
Sapatq'ayn Cinema is sponsored by the
American Indians Studies Program.
With additional support and funding from the Idaho Humanities Council
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