[AIW] Best of the American Indian Film Festival San Francisco, Linden-Museum Stuttgart/Germany, February 19 - 20, 2011

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Best of the American Indian Film Festival San Francisco

at the Linden-Museum Stuttgart

February 19th and 20th 2011

 

INDIANER INUIT: DAS NORDAMERIKA FILMFESTIVAL is the first and only of its
kind in Europe. Biannually it will take place in Stuttgart alternating with
the BEST OF THE SAN FRANCISCO AMERICAN INDIAN FILMFESTIVAL. In cooperation
with Michael Smith, director of the San Francisco Film Institute and
Festival, the BEST OF exclusively presents award winning films of the last
San Francisco Filmfestival to the European public. 

 

BEST OF THE SAN FRANCISCO AMERICAN INDIAN FILMFESTIVAL as well as INDIANER
INUIT: DAS NORDAMERIKA FILMFESTIVAL are in Stuttgart based on the
cooperation of leading cultural institutions: Linden-Museum (State Museum of
Ethnology), German-American Center/James Byrnes-Institute and the
Volkshochschule with a focus on adult education. The artistic director is
Gunter Lange, Media Arts Cultural Events, Constance. Both events offer the
unique opportunity to discuss new, exciting and unexpected aspects of Native
American/First Nations cultures – far removed from one-dimensional
stereotypes about indigenous peoples of North America.

 

Location for the BEST OF THE SAN FRANCISCO AMERICAN INDIAN FILMFESTIVAL:

Linden-Museum Stuttgart, Hegelplatz 1, 70174 Stuttgart/Germany

www.lindenmuseum.de

 

 

All Films in English 

 

 

Tickets:

Single ticket:       EUR   7,-/  6,-.
Ticket for a day:  EUR 18,-/15,-

Two Day Pass:   EUR 30,-/25,-

 

 

Guests: 

Michael Smith (Dakota), director, American Indian Film Institute and
Festival San Francisco

Jack Kohler (Hupa, Yurok, Karuk), filmmaker and actor

Cindy Spencer (Laguna Pueblo, Navajo), team member of the AIFISF

Jeremy Torrie und Tanya Brunel, filmmaker and producer, Winnipeg

 

 

Filmprogram

 

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

 

15.00: Music, Art and Fantasy

 

Best Music Video:

The Road Forward

Director: Marie Clements, Canada, 10 min.

A live sculptured installation by mixed media-artist Connie Watts
(Nuu-chah-nulth, Gitxsan, and Kwakwaka’wakw), an original composition by
Jennifer Kreisberg (Tuscarora), choreography by Michael Greyeyes (Plains
Cree), historical media and cultural photography fuses into a live
performance that connects the tumultuous past of Aboriginal peoples with
their rising vision of The Road Forward.

 

Best Animation:

Wapos Bay Episode 20: The Hardest Lesson

Director: Trevor Cameron, Canada, 24 min.

T-Bear tries to find his father a new wife. Meanwhile, behind her mother’s
back Raven develops a new passion to use make-up. T-Bear realizes his own
desire for a mother and Grandmother Mary teaches Raven a lesson. 

 

Best Documentary Short:

Unconquered: Allan Houser and the Legacy of One Apache Family

Director: Bryan Beasley, USA, 32 min.

Released in 1913 as Prisoners of War, Sam and Blossom Kaozous passed down
oral traditions of the Apache people to their son Allan Houser. These shared
memories molded his artwork, and in turn helped him become one of the 20th
centruy’s most important artists. Allan then passed these same family
experiences down to his own sons who are fulfiling their destinies as the
next generation of Native artists.

 

Best Live Short Subject:

The Cave 

Director: Helen Haig-Brown, Canada, 11 min.

On horseback Ahan is out hunting in the Chilcotin territory when the bear’s
trail leads him to a cave. He ties his horse up to a tree and follows the
bear into the narrow entranced cave. A tunnel opens up to a river valley,
unknown to Ahan. There he encounters people who are naked and don’t seem to
hear and see him, except a woman who sternly asks him to return where he
came from.

 

 

18.00   Opening Reception with Prof. Dr. Inés de Castro (Director
Linden-Museum Stuttgart), Michael Smith (Director San Francisco American
Indian Film Institute and Festival)

 

19.00: Horror Film Night I

 

Best Director: Jeremy Torrie

A Flesh Offering

Director: Jeremy Torrie, Canada, feature, 85 min.

A group of young friends heads north for a weekend of snowboards and
partying, but falls prey to the incarnation of a Native legend that pits the
forces of good against evil. The group heads off to Jennifer Morriseaus
place, not far away from an abandoned ski hill. On the way they come across
an inverted animal carcass and immediately feel they are being watched. What
they don’t know is that they have arrived at a spiritually charged location.


As the friends party around the fire, Jennifer recounts the Windigo tale of
a fierce and terrifying creature ten feet tall with fangs that stalks and
kills humans, particularly in the remote wilderness. Overnight one of the
girls disappears. A search party ensues and what they find affirms that they
are being hunted. Each of the friends will be forced to face their own
demons or one by one, they will fall victims to the Spirits. 

 

 

21.30: Horror Film Night II

 

Best film, Best actress (Andrea Menard), Best Supporting actress (Jani
Lauzon):

A Windigo Tale

Director: Armand Garnet Ruffo, Canada, feature, 93 min.

A chilling and redeeming drama in which two stories are woven together, on
profoundly affecting the other. A Native grandfather drives north
accompanied by his troubled grandson, a youth-at-risk, who comes to learn
about the dark secrets of his family and community. On a northern village,
an estranged mother and daughter must reunite to exorcise the voracious
Windigo spirit tied to a painful past. Taking its inspiration from Ojibway
spiritualism and based on the residential school system, where generations
of Native children were forcibly removed from their families and assimilated
into Euro-Canadian society. 

 

 

Sunday, February 20th, 2011

 

11.00: CATS, MICE AND MEN

 

My Name is Kobe

Director: Briana Roberts, USA, 8 min.

Meet Kobe, the Yocha Dehe Wintun Tribal Office community cat. Follow him
around as he introduces you to his friends, his leading feline and his food.

Produced during the Tribal Touring Program, Summer 2010, Yocha Dehe Wintun
Nation, California.

 

Best Actor (John Cook) and Best Supporting Actor (Stanley Wood) 

Of Mice and Men

Director: Kyle Hudlin-Whelam, Canada, feature, 74 min.

In this adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic Depression-era novella about
friendship and the importance of dreams, powerful, yet childlike Lennie
(John Cook) and his quick-witted protector George (Stanley Wood), are
re-imagined as two displaced Aboriginal teenagers. The main action of the
story takes place today, in a rooming house in Winnipeg, Canada, rather than
on a farm in California during the 1930s. Lennie and George are not migrant
farm workers; instead, they have left the desolation of their remote
northern community, searching for work in city after city. As their destiny
unfolds tragically, they are buoyed by the hopes of their dream of having
their own place up North in the bush, where they could live off the land by
trapping, hunting and fishing.

 

 

15.00: HEALING POWERS OF MEDIA

 

Best Public Service

The Healing Lens 

Director: Michelle Derosier, Canada, 46 min.

The lives of four Anishinabe youth are forever changed after they land the
lead roles in Seeking Bimaadiziiwin drama designed to combat suicide,
depression and racism. Unknown to the filmmakers, each of the first-time
actors share deep personal connections to the story and their own lives
mirror the struggle of the characters they are bringing to life. However,
each of them are overcoming their personal struggles and are engaged in
unique ways of healing themselves.

 

Jack Kohler (Hupa, Yurok, Karuk) presents:

Best Documentary Feature 2008

River of Renewal
Director:Carlos Bolado, USA, 54 Min.; Producer/Narrator: Jack Kohler
River of Renewal examines the water and wildlife crisis in large bioregion
of the Klamath Basin. The communities that harvest food from the Klamath
Basin—raising crops and cattle, catching salmon in the river and
offshore—have all suffered due to the lack of enough water to serve the
needs of irrigation and fisheries alike. Jack Kohler (Yurok/Karuk/Hupa)
travels back to his ancestral land to explore the history of the conflict
from a Native perspective. He learns about cultural traditions that revolve
around salmon and listens to his people talk about their long struggle to
establish fishing rights and mend river conditions. River of Renewal
captures eight years of protests, meetings and political action concerning
the Klamath and provides viewers with an insider’s view of the saga.

 

 

19.00: HUMAN RIGHTS

 

Nominated as „Best Documentary Feature“ 2010

Hearing Radmilla

Director: Angela Webb, USA, 82 min.

Hearing Radmilla is a portrait of Radmilla Cody, Miss Navajo Nation 1997.
She becomes one of the Navajo's most polarizing pop culture figures, as the
first bi-racial Miss Navajo. During the pageant competition, Radmilla
out-performed the others and won the title, but victory was not entirely
sweet. Some argued that she could never truly represent the Navajo people.
Others contended that identity was a way of life and not simply a matter of
blood quantum. 

Radmilla refused to be outdone. She'd grown up on the reservation with her
maternal grandmother, speaking Navajo and herding sheep. Although Radmilla
had faced bigotry her grandmother always taught her, that she was undeniably
Navajo.
Following the pageant, Radmilla embarked on a singing career and became a
highly sought after local celebrity. Then her life took an unforeseen turn.
She had become involved in an abusive relationship with a man who would
later be described as a drug 'kingpin. 2002 she, too, was indicted and
sentenced to 21 months in a federal corrections facility. 

Since her release Radmilla Cody has put her life back together. She
continues to make music, has returned to school and is now completing her
undergraduate degree in Communications with a Minor in Sociology. Today, she
is also an active spokesperson against domestic violence. 

 

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