NATIVE AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
in celebration of American Indian Heritage Month
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Musical Score Performed Live by: Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra!
Thursday 11.6.08 |7:30pmRedskinOne
of Paramount's last silent films, this spectacularly photographed tale
of a Navajo caught between two cultures was shot in two-strip
Technicolor. Richard Dix plays the Navajo abducted to a government
boarding school as a child, but his partial assimilation into white
society leaves him neither Indian nor white, just "Redskin." The film
was far ahead of its time in presenting a
sympathetic and authentic
portrayal of Native
Americans and the prejudices they faced, despite
all of the leading roles being acted by non-Indians.
Director: Victor
Schertzinger 1929 USA 82min.
NR 35mm print courtesy of the Library of
Congress
Special price $10 per person. No discounts apply.
Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
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Friday
11.7.08 |5:30pm & 8:00pm
House Made of dawn
A film adaptation of N. Scott Momaday's Pulitzer Prize winning novel House Made of Dawn. The moving story of a young man's loss and redemption stars actor/poet Larry Littlebird, who must cope with his life in two distinct but conflicting worlds of the 1970's-the reservation
in the Southwest and the gritty urban environment.
With support from the American Film Institute, the
National Museum of the American Indian made this
their first film preservation project.
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Saturday
11.8.08 | 5:30pm & 8:00pm
The Exhiles
A recent restoration by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and Milestone Films, chronicles one night in the lives of young Native American men and women living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles in the late 1950s. All of the actors, some of whom were recruited on
the spur of the moment during the shooting,
play themselves in the film.
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Sunday
11.9.08 |2:00pm
In the Land of the War Canoes
An early ethnographic film about the Kwakiutl Indians of Vancouver Island, made by the photographer Edward S. Curtis, who devoted his life to documenting the disappearing world of the American Indian.
The screening will be immediately followed
by a panel discussion about Native American
images in film, moderated by Native American
legal scholar and author Rennard Strickland.
Panel includes:Ken Petete, Professor of Native
American Studies, University of Central Oklahoma, Sunrise Tippeconie, Native American
Filmaker, Leslie Gee, Native American
Filmaker, MIchelle Svenson, Festival
Producer, Smithsonian's National
Museum of the American Indian.
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