PBS Online Film Festival 2014 Watch & Vote for Lady Thunderhawks
Image still from Lady Thunderhawks, presented by Vision Maker Media & Wisconsin Media Lab.
Join us today for the third annual PBS Online Film Festival. This year's festival features 25 short films from various station and producing partners. Stream the videos anytime now through July 31, and don't forget to vote for your favorite videos.
Video Profile of Cecilia Fire Thunder Part of a Series About Reproductive Rights
Cecilia J. Fire Thunder (Oglala Lakota) is a former licensed nurse and widely known as an advocate for wellness and women's issues.
Cecilia is one of the many Native women profiled by the transmedia project Sovereign Bodies for her work to ensure that Native women have the same access to health services that non-Native women receive.
Decolonizing Eating Disorders by Sheena Roetman (Lakota/Creek)
So what happens when a poor, non-white woman has an eating disorder? What are her options? Where does she go? Again, a quick Google search tells a lot. The closest result to any sort of culturally sensitive treatment is one of the aforementioned ranches that incorporate "Native American healing practices" into its treatment curriculum - sweat lodges, "Native American ceremonies" and medicine wheels, to be specific. But the vague inclusion of these cultural identifiers isn't there for Native women suffering from a disordered relationship with food, it's there to attract rich white women into believing they are being healed by some deeper power.
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Vision Maker Media Producer - Produce, write, shoot and edit audio and video productions for national broadcast and/or online presentation, including the Growing Native series. Apply today - https://employment.unl.edu/postings/40129
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Producer Profile: Charles "Boots" Kennedye
Charles "Boots" Kennedye is a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma and a documentary producer at OETA (Oklahoma Educational Television Authority). He's been at the helm of projects such as Oklahoma World War II Stories, The State of Sequoyah and worked with Rocky Mountain PBS in 2011 on Urban Rez.
