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Archive for the 'Announcements' Category
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
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DOXA Documentary Film and Video Festival 2008
Sunday, June 1 at 2:30pm
Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour St)
Tickets: www.doxafestival.ca
The Musqueam people have lived for thousands of years in and around what is now the city of Vancouver. (The word Musqueam is an anglicized term describing “where the Muxqui [river grass] grows.”) Director Kevin Lee Burton’s new film meticulously combines film language with Hunkamenum words to recreate Musqueam elder Larry Grant’s experience of rediscovering his language and cultural traditions.
A production of the National Film Board of Canada.
For more information about the film visit: www.nfb.ca/writingtheland
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
The 11th annual Cine Las Americas International Film Festival started Wednesday the 16th and runs through April 24th. NAICA spoke with Director of Programming, Jacqueline Rush Rivera on the direction of the festival this year, must see films, new venues and where CLA is going (and they are going places) in the coming years. If you are in Austin, Tx or the surrounding areas in the coming week, make sure to take advantage of the excellent screening opportunities facilitated by this intimate and intelligently programmed film festival. And don’t forget to listen to the podcast below!
To learn more about the festival, the screening venues, and to view a film schedule visit www.cinelasamericas.org.
“The mission of Cine Las Americas is to promote cross-cultural understanding and growth by educating, entertaining and challenging the diverse Central Texas community through film and media arts.”
(F.Y.I. click on ‘download’ to listen to podcast. the popup player is acting a little kooky on this one.)
Monday, April 14th, 2008
15th Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
Join us for the WORLD PREMIERE of imagineNATIVE award-winning director Tracey Deer’s new film
CLUB NATIVE
Friday April 18, 6:30pm
BE THE FIRST TO EMAIL info@imagineNATIVE.org and WIN TWO FREE TICKETS
Bloor Cinema
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Sunday April 20, 2:15pm
Royal Ontario Museum
Tracey won Best Documentary for her feature, MOHAWK GIRLS at imagineNATIVE in 2005. Her new film is a brave look at the lives of four inspiring and eloquent women (including Waneek Horn-Miller) whose lives are forever changed when they fall in love with the wrong guys and “marry out” of their Mohawk Nation.
CLUB NATIVE, Canada, 78 min.
Falling in love with the wrong person can have devastating repercussions for Mohawks on the Kahnawake reserve in Quebec. Award-winning director Tracey Deer takes a courageous look at her home community, raising questions of identity, history and tradition through the lives of four inspiring Mohawk women. With warmth, depth and humour, stories unfold about the heartbreaking costs of “marrying out” of their Mohawk Nation, the challenges faced by kids of mixed backgrounds, and the conflict between love and preserving the fabric of their community. Having children with the men they love can mean forfeiting their offspring’s legal native status, including the right to live with their families on the reserve. The film doesn’t flinch from the history of Canada’s racist and sexist government policy, including the brutal force used against them during the Oka Crisis in 1990. A groundbreaking film and a powerful story of the triumph of love and the human spirit.
TO BUY TICKETS:
http://hotdocsaudience.bside.com/2008/films/clubnative_hotdocs2008
Daytime Screenings Tickets (before 6 pm) $10, evening screenings (between 6 pm-11 pm) are $12 each and Late Night Screenings (after 11PM) are $5. Order advance tickets and pass sales at the DOCUMENTARY Box Office (87 Avenue Road, 2 Blocks North of Bloor, upper level of Hazelton Lanes), online at www.hotdocs.ca, or by phone at 416-637-5150. On the day of the screening, all daytime screenings are FREE for students and seniors with valid ID, courtesy of the Toronto Star.
Hot Docs runs from April 17-27th. Visit www.hotdocs.ca for further information and detailed film descriptions.
Umiaq Skin Boat
Jobie Weetaluktuk
6:45 PM Fri, Apr 18
plays with...
Shock Waves - another great film about the power of independent radio to radically transform and empower the people of the troubled Democratic Republic of Congo
Al Green Theatre
12:00 PM Sun, Apr 20
plays with… Shock Waves
Royal Ontario Museum Theatre
Jobie Weetaluktuk’s previous film, Urban Inuk, was a huge success at imagineNATIVE in 2005.
Run time: 31 min. | Canada | Language: Inuktitut
Against the harsh Arctic magnificence of Inukjuak, Quebec Inuit elders share intimate personal stories and remarkable tales of survival as they build the first traditional seal skin boat their community has seen in more than 50 years. Once an essential vessel for travelling and hunting, the umiaq has been usurped by canoes powered with outboard motors. Traditional survival skills are melting away as rapidly as the ice caps in the North where sugar, warm houses and video games are the new necessities. UMIAQ exquisitely connects the boat’s construction to building cultural cohesion through anchoring a community in its rich history. In Inuktitut with English subtitles.
To Buy tickets:
http://hotdocsaudience.bside.com/2008/films/umiaqskinboat_hotdocs2008
Hot Docs Box Office: 416 637 5150
Www.hotdocs.ca
Friday, April 4th, 2008
CINE LAS AMERICAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
OPENING AND CLOSING FILMS ANNOUNCED
 Austin-TX, March 24- The 11th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival will celebrate its opening night on Wednesday, April 16th at the Paramount Theatre, located in downtown Austin, Texas with the screening of the documentary feature SEPTIEMBRES (SEPTEMBERS) directed by Carles Bosh.
The festival will close on Thursday, April 24th with the screening of COCHOCHI, directed by Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar.
The Cine Las Americas International Film Festival is a nine-day annual event that screens new work made by or about Latino and indigenous people of the Americas. The festival screens narrative and documentary features, short films, experimental work, animation, and youth films in both competitive and non-competitive sections. This event is complemented with repertoire and special screenings. This year approximately 80 different films will screen on April 16 - April 24 at venues throughout Austin.
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Live (sort of), this week at the NMAI in NYC, a performance by artist Erica Lord (Inupiaq/Athabaskan) who will re-enact James Luna’s seminal performance work, the Artifact Piece. First performed in 1987, this work famously disrupted the historic objectification of Native people in museums and symbolically seized control of Native representation. Twenty years later, Lord investigates the power of the original performance and invites a discussion of its continued relevance.
(photo courtesy-erica lord)
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2008, 2:00–5:30 pm followed by a 6:00 pm lecture and dialogue with the artist by NMAI Curator Paul Chaat Smith (<-YAY Paul!)
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2008, 10:00 am–12:00 pm/2:00–4:00 pm
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2008, 1:00–4:00 pm
George Gustav Heye Center
National Museum of the American Indian
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House
One Bowling Green, New York City
The George Gustav Heye Center is adjacent
to Battery Park between State and Whitehall
Streets in Lower Manhattan.
Subway: 4 or 5 to Bowling Green, R or W to
Whitehall, 2 or 3 to Wall Street, 1 to South
Ferry. Bus: M1, M6, or M15 to South Ferry
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
In case you haven’t noticed it……..www.thenaica.org
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Looming Large: Seneca Grand Casino Niagara New York view from Ontario.
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That winter edition is on it's way. Momentarily. In fact by the time you read this it may very well be online!
But to get you hot and bothered here's a little taste of the of the fine reportage, review, interview, artwork
and the like coming your way at NAICA online's Winter Edition 2008:
-an exclusive interview with the up and coming Brooklyn trio, The Dust Dive. Check out there music listenable on the website and on their Myspace page-www.myspace.com/thedustdive
Laura with husband Brian Zimmerman, 2/3rds of the Dust Dive.
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-a gorgeous music video featuring Apache violinist/vocalist/guitarist,
Laura Ortman.
-a discussion with Lakota director Pierre Barrera.
Artist Jay Carrier gets carried over the falls.
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-an extensive visual review of our Artist in Residence, Jay Carrier's, work; he discusses his life in Niagara Falls New York, not Ontario, about the state of contemporary indigenous art in Northwestern New York today.
-a photo tour of a freaky old high school now turned 501c3 artist colony, and much more!
Tschokes Indians. It also doubles as a candle holder!
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Look for upcoming blogs as we travel to film festivals up the ass: Torry Mendoza in Athens-Ohio, Sonny and Maria at Tribeca-NYC, and Renee at Cine-Austin;
an exclusive review of our favorite Native American, Val Kilmer, his music and poetry, and essays on everything from Indian Tschokes,
themed museums, Indian art collections, romance novels, and probably more about Val Kilmer.Stay tuned! www.thenaica.orgall photos: m colòn
 Gree River by The Dust Dive [3:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
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Presents
NATIVE VOICES:
Contemporary Indigenous Art
Works on Paper
February 8 – March 23
Opening Reception: February 8, 6–9 pm
Curators' Talk: March 1, 4pm
Co-curators: Deborah Everett and Raquel Chapa
Artists:
Frank Big Bear
Jason Lujan
Jeffrey Gibson
Joe Feddersen
Miranda Belarde-Lewis
Kay WalkingStick
Lorenzo Clayton
Mario Martinez
Kentler will present a range of works on paper, from prints to
drawings, collage and installation – and it will include some of the
most exciting and vibrant work being currently made in any art
circles. The works represent a cross-section of contemporary
sensibilities, commenting on the challenges of the postmodern world.
Some deal with issues of identity, including that of being an outsider
in a mass society. The work may or may not hint at the ethnicity of
its maker, but it consistently employs powerful strategies to grapple
with modern life in a global world.
http://www.kentlergallery.org/pages/current.html
Gallery hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 12 – 5pm
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
TRIBECA FILM FELLOWS 2008
The Tribeca Film Institute invites young filmmakers to witness the excitement of a major film festival while exchanging ideas, exploring the possibilites of cinema,and developing their own visions and voices through film.
This spring, TFI will select twenty NYC youth producers, ages 15-20, to be our 2008 Tribeca Film Fellows. Programming will include a creative project, panel discussion, workshops, mentoring by festival film directors, screenings, and special events, throughout the film festival. Following the festival. students will also be matched with film industry related internships and will serve as ” student ambassadors” for TFI at various youth events throughout 2008.
Requirements for Application
- Must be 15-20 years old
-Have been actively involved with video production for at least 12 months
-Have a career aspiration in some area of media and/or video/film
-must submit completed application form, work sample(note: work samples will not be returned) and letter of recommendation (from NYC media organization or film/video program instructor or staff member) by Deadline.
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
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I didn’t get around to calling mine on Christmas, adding insult to injury, as I also didn’t go visit her this Christmas like I have for the last seven years she has lived in that nursing home in North Carolina. I also visited her during summers and sundry holidays while I was in grad school so she was used to me visiting and calling often. Nothing particularly anything was different this year except I now work a day job with only a week of vacation so I can no longer visit as often as I did in previous years. The only thing I can think of is that I was depressed because I couldn’t go and visit her this year (for personal reasons I won’t go into here which basically means I had no money)-my sister also lives in North Carolina with her family-and that inspired general listlessness which lead to dramatically not caring about much of anything including calling the very people I was depressed over not getting to visit.
Sounds stupid? It is because I did call my my sister and nephews on Christmas day and spoke with them for an hour. Then they were to call me when they went to the home to give our mother her presents so it would at least feel like we were all together. Of course, I missed that call. When I called my sister back an hour or so after the fact she didn’t answer, but her cellphone is a piece of shit when it comes to dropping and receiving calls, so I wasn’t surprised. I didn’t call the home that evening because they rarely answer anyway, those fuckers. In fact I tried calling once when it wasn’t a holiday thin king I’d get through easier but the line rang twenty times with no answer at all or voice mail. I called back over and over to no avail. So history had left me bored with the idea of hearing the line ring. I had the next few days off after Christmas so I thought I’d call then. One uneventful thing after another prevented me from calling her. Then at 12:18am on December 29th my eldest nephew called me. I figured he was just calling to shoot the shit so I was inclined to not answer as I had to go to work the next day, but something told me to answer, you know, just in case.
It was the case. He mumbled what sounded like, “My mother died.” I was stunned because I thought he was telling me my sister was dead which would have been really shitty too as I love my sister something fierce, but he articulated himself more clearly the second time around. Though I could hear my sister shrieking in the background all I could ask was, “Are you guys sure?”
He adamantly declared yes. Still disbelieving, I asked if they were positive. Perhaps the nurse at the home was mistaken. It is a small country town in North Carolina after all, not the quickest of witted folk live there-excepting all the Northerners who have moved into the area-they don’t work in the home. But, no, they were quite certain, she was dead. My sister jumped on the line to yell at me so I would get it through my head, our mother was gone. I was skeptical. So I called the home. I hate that they call that place a “home” but that it was for seven years of my mother’s remaining life. A country-ass nurse unceremoniously told me that yes, in fact, Miss Catherine was dead as she was the one who found her. According to this nurse my mother died at 12:15 a.m. How she knew this little tidbit with such great certainty remains somewhat of a mystery, as is the cause of death, nonetheless, my mother is dead.
Her ashes sit on my dresser yet I still find it hard to believe. Maybe it’s because I kept meaning to call thinking I had time but never did.
photo: m. colon (yes, i did take photos.)
P.S. an ancestry search done out of grief and whatnot netted two things: my mother was not part cherokee as previously thought (thank god!). no she was part choctaw. she was also second cousin to hank williams sr. and sang backup for him on a live radio program along with her two youngest siblings. i guess that makes three things, but whatever.
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