| Indigenous Studies Film and Video Collection
TWN celebrates
Native American
Heritage Month with a 10% discount on our
Indigenous Studies Collection. Featuring new
and classic titles from Canada, the United
States, Guatemala, Colombia, Bolivia, and
Argentina, our collection offers a great
variety of documentaries and short films
about family, health, and land rights in
indigenous communities in the Americas.
Purchase any of the titles in our
Indigenous Studies Collection and receive a
10% discount
on your order. Offer is good until November
30, 2007. Please mention promo code ENIS2007.
To place your order, please visit our website, print
out an order
form and fax it to (212) 594-6417 or mail it
to Third
World Newsreel, 545 8th Avenue, 10th Floor, New
York, NY 10018. We accept credit cards, personal
checks and institutional purchase orders.
Remember to add $20 for shipping and
handling.
| Indigenous Rights in Colombia, Argentina and Guatemala
NEW Raised by Our Own Authority Available on
DVD
In May 2006, more than 300,000 Colombians,
including indigenous communities and social
justice organizations, came to the
National Traveling Summit to demand a
national referendum on the Free Trade
Agreement with the United States.
This documentary, produced by the Association
of Indigenous Councils of the North of Cauca,
reveals the brutal response of the Colombian
state against the indigenous reservation of
La Marķa and how the indigenous
communities organized themselves to fight against
unfair state policies.
Mauricio Acosta & the Association of
Indigenous Councils of the North of Cauca |
documentary | 26 minutes | 2006 | $175
| $157.50
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NEW The Quilmes According to Miguel
Mamani Available on
DVD
Decimated during the Spanish colonization and
vilified by Argentina's official history, the
Quilmes remain alive in the ruins of their
ancient city and in the passionate voice of
Miguel Mamani, a proud descendant of this
indigenous tribe. Drawing on oral tradition
and the writings of Jesuit scholars, Miguel
tells the unofficial story of the Quilmes:
their origins, their way of life, their
religious beliefs and their struggle to
preserve their own history and culture.
Mabel Maio |
documentary | 22 minutes | 2007 | $175
| $157.50
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Sipakapa Is Not For Sale Available on
DVD
Montana Exploradora, a subsidiary of the
Canadian/American transnational company Glamis
Gold, received 45 million US dollars in
financing from the World Bank to exploit an
open-pit gold mine in Sipakapa, Guatemala. In
accordance with ILO Convention 169, a
Community Consultation was held in this Maya
region
to establish whether the population would
accept or reject mining exploitation in its
territory. The result was a resounding "NO"
to mining. Sipakapa Is Not For Sale
analyses
the debate on mining exploitation and
demonstrates the dignity of the Sipakapan
People as they fight to defend their autonomy
in the face of encroaching neoliberal
megaprojects.
*Anaconda Award for Best Documentary, PRAIA,
Bolivia and Ecuador, 2006
*Best Documentary, Indigenous International
Film and Video Festival, CLACPI, Oaxaca,
Mexico, 2006
**"...the larger issue is the Sipakapan
battle to preserve their autonomy from
foreign commercial interests. Their fight
offers a hopeful example to other indigenous
people around the world who refuse to be
victims." --Planet in Focus International
Environmental Film & Video Festival
Alvaro Revenga |
documentary | 55 minutes | 2005 | $175
| $157.50
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Also Available
Land,
Rain & Fire: Report from Oaxaca
| Indigenous Music in Bolivia
NEW El Charango Available on
DVD
This short documentary is about a little
instrument, a large silver mine and the
highest city in the world. Cerro Rico in
Potosi, Bolivia, was discovered by Spanish
conquistadors in 1545, who enslaved the local
indigenous people. It is said that 8 million
people, including African slaves, died in the
mines of this mountain while providing Spain
with immense wealth. The Spanish culture
spread into Potosi, and the local people
became aware of something they had never seen
or heard before: a stringed instrument.
Forbidden from ever playing the Spanish
guitar, the miners copied it and created the
charango. The story of the charango
symbolizes the larger struggle for human
rights and a quest to keep traditional
culture alive among indigenous people.
*SilverDocs, Silver Spring, Maryland,
2006
Jim Virga & Tula Goenka |
documentary | 22 minutes | 2006 | $175
| $157.50
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| Canada
My Father, My Teacher
On a crisp summer day in Canada's Western Artic,
Dennis Allen and his 77-year-old father, Victor,
climb into a boat and head onto the water.
They're
in good spirits as they prepare to carry on the
Inuvialuit tradition of the whale hunt. But, it
hasn't always been this simple. After years of
animosity, Dennis is working to restore
broken links
to his culture and community, beginning with his
father. My Father, My Teacher is an
eloquent
reflection on the bonds and tensions faced by all
families. It is also an extraordinary look at the
handing down of a precious family legacy from a
father to his son. A National Film Board of
Canada
production.
Dennis Allen and Ken Malenstyn | documentary | 52
min | 2005 | $175
| $157.50
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The Gift of Diabetes
After Brion Whitford was diagnosed with
diabetes,
he felt that Western medicine wasn't helping with
his symptoms and was reinforcing his feelings of
inadequacy, hopelessness and despair. By
going back
to his Native American healing traditions, Brion
regained his health, and, in the process,
rediscovered his cultural identity. This moving
documentary explores how cultural identity shapes
and reshapes us, and how we can redefine
medicine by
taking control of our own healing process. A
National Film Board of Canada production.
Brian Whitford | documentary | 58 min | 2005
| $225
| $202.50
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| United States
The Couple in the Cage
Over the last five hundred years, non-western
human
beings have been exhibited in the taverns,
theaters,
gardens, museums, zoos, circuses and world's
fairs
of Europe, and the circuses and freakshows of the
United States. In commemoration of this practice,
videomaker Coco Fusco and performance artist
Guillermo Gomez-Pena lived in a gilded cage in
Columbus Plaza in Madrid for three days in
May 1992.
Presenting themselves as aboriginal
inhabitants of
an island in the Gulf of Mexico that was
overlooked
by Columbus, the video documents 'authentic' and
'traditional' tasks, including writing on a
laptop
computer, television, sewing voodoo dolls and
working out.
Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia | documentary |
30 min
| 1993 | $200
| $180
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Tenacity
The story of two Indian boys who encounter
the violence of the adult world in a roadside
hit-and-run accident. Filmed in Onondaga
Territory in upstate New York, this award
winning short is about friendship and loss.
*Sundance Film Festival, 1995
Chris Eyre | short fiction | 10 min | 1995 |
$175
| $157.50
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Diabetes: Notes From Indian Country
According to the U.S. Public Health/Indian Health
Service, 40% of all persons, 40 years
and older, residing on American Indian
reservations
are diabetic. Filmmaker Beverly Singer
visits the
Winnebago
Indian Reservation in Nebraska, the Rosebud Sioux
Tribe and the Porcupine Lakota community in South
Dakota, to present community solutions to this
health crisis. It also features Lorelei
DeCora, a
Winnebago public health nurse presenting a
convincing argument for a culturally-based
approach to the treatment and prevention of
diabetes
among Native Americans.
Beverly Singer | documentary | 23 min | 2000
| $175
| $157.50
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He Wo Un Poh: Recovery In Native
America
This documentary is a critical look at the
effects
of alcoholism on
Native American communities. Beverly Singer, a
member of
the Santa Clara Tewa Pueblo, introduces us to the
experiences of seven Native Americans on the
road to
recovery from alcohol abuse. Along the way, she
reveals her own first-hand experience with
alcoholism. This innovative video takes an
intimate
approach to a widespread problem that is often
misunderstood.
Beverly Singer | documentary | 54 min | 1994
| $225
| $202.50
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Two Spirits: Native American
Lesbians And
Gays
This documentary explores the Native American
belief of
'Two Spirits', a combination of the
ability to love another of the same gender, to
encompass 'masculine' and 'feminine' attributes
within the same person and to be many things at
once. This video includes interviews
with Native Americans from throughout the
Americas
and works to redefine difference and the
complexities of sexuality and culture.
T. Osa Hidalgo-De la Riva and Deep Dish TV |
documentary | 28 min | 1994 | $225
| $202.50
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Plastic Warriors
Native New Yorkers give their emotional
responses to
terms like "squaw" and "redskin" in this
thought-provoking documentary about Native
American
stereotypes in American culture.
Amy Tall Chief | documentary | 26 min | 2004
| $175
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Ruins
This experimental documentary
suggests how diplomacy and Pan-Americanism recast
ancient Maya and Aztect objects as art. Part
faked
newsreel,
part travelogue, part drug-induced hippie
rant and
part home movie, Ruins features
Brigido Lara, a
master forger whose latter-day 'Pre-Colombian'
objects were exhibited in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York City.
Jesse Lerner | documentary | 78 min | 1999 |
$225
| $202.50
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| The Work of Randy Redroad
Cowtipping: The Militant Indian
Waiter
In this original short drama, a Cherokee cafe
waiter faces customers who insist on sharing
their ignorance about American Indians--or
are they Native Americans? His efforts to
educate others often end in frustration, and
a lousy tip. Based on his own experiences
encountering skewed perceptions and
depictions of his people, Redroad's story
blends humor and rage and information. Clips
from movie westerns help make his point.
Randy Redroad |short fiction | 17 min | 1992
| $175
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Haircuts Hurt
A Native American woman and her young son
encounter everyday racism when they visit a
local barbershop. The situation leads her to
reflect on her own childhood and reconsider
her son's first haircut. Director Redroad's
short drama speaks to issues of acculturation
and identity formation.
Randy Redroad | short fiction | 10 min | 1992
| $125
| $112.50
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High Horse
A provocative narrative on the concept of
"home" for Native Americans. The film opens
in what the filmmaker calls "the artificial
world of the colonizers" - a modern American
city. From a cop to a young bike messenger,
dislocated Native people search for and
sometimes find their figurative and literal
homes. They reclaim what has been stolen from
the past in different journeys of love, loss
and identity. High Horse is a freedom
myth that rides to the rhythm of a naturally
conceived justice.
*Sundance Film Festival, 1995
Randy Redroad | fiction | 40 min | 1995 |
$200
| $180
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Arts, The
National Endowment for the Arts, The New York
City
Department of Cultural Affairs, The Ford
Foundation, The North Star Fund, The Funding
Exchange, Manhattan Neighborhood
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