photo courtesy: Cedar Sherbert

The Association on American Indian Affairs will present a short film
showcase at the National Museum of the American Indian, on November 8th,
at 6:30 pm.

Free admission. No reservations required. Please save the date.

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Reception
American Indian Community House
2nd Floor Gallery, 11 Broadway, New York, NY 5:30 PM

Screening
National Museum of the American Indian
One Bowling Green, New York, NY
6:30 PM

Kawdan’s Song, directed by Annabel Wong (Salt River Pima) A young mother
travels to New York City for a violin audition.

Gesture Down (I Don’t Sing), directed by Cedar Sherbert (Kumeyaay)
Adaption of “Gesture Down to Guatemala” by Blackfeet/Gros Venture writer
James Welch.

Half of Anything, directed by Jonathan Tomhave (Hidatsa/Prairie Band
Potawatomi/Hocak) Response to “What is a real Indian?” interviews
include John Trudell and Sherman Alexie

Indians for Indians: A Radio Program, directed by Ava Hamilton (Arapaho)
Profiles the oldest continuous Native radio program in the US.

Rez Life, directed by David Aleck, Nick Clark (Confederated Tribes of
Grand Ronde) and Martin Edwards Poetic film about the choices a boy
faces on his path to manhood on the reservation.

Film Coordinator: Raquel Chapa, (Lipan Apache/Yaqui/Cherokee), Currently

working on a PBS documentary on the Cherokee Trail of Tears as well as 3
gallery shows of Native art to open in Brooklyn in 2008.

www.indian-affairs.org