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During Women's History Month
We're Celebrating Our Women Filmmakers
Women represent 42 percent of the filmmakers producing
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Native women filmmakers currently in production:
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To Brooklyn and Back: A Mohawk Journey
Producer Reaghan Tarbell (Mohawk)
"I think if you're destined to tell a story it will find you somehow. Telling the story about my
family and my community was, at the same
ti
me, the
most challenging and most rewarding time of my life."
Documentary filmmaker
Reaghan Tarbell (Mohawk) comes from the Kahnawake reserve just outside Montreal. She beg
an her work as a filmmaker on projects directed by Paul Rickard of Mushkeg Media in Montreal.
To Brooklyn and Back: A Mohawk Journey
profiles how for more than 50 years the Kahnawake Mohawks of Quebec, Canada, occupied a 10-square-block hub in the North Gowanus section of Brooklyn, which became known as Little Caughnawaga.
The men, skilled ironworkers, came to New York in search of work and brought
their wives, children and extended family w
ith them.
57 minutes
HOME $29.95
EDU $225
Includes Public Performance Rights
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Trudell
Producer Heather Rae (Cherokee)
Heather Rae (Cherokee) produced and directed
Trudell,
which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to play in more than 100 film festivals worldwide. For six years, Rae ran the Native Program at the Sundance Institute and was a programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. She was named one of Variety's Ten Producers to Watch.
Trudell tells the engaging life story of Native
American poet/prophet/activist John Trudell and his heartfelt message of active, personal responsibility to the earth, all of its inhabitants and our descendants.
Trudell fuses his radical politics with music, writing and art. Combining images and archival footage with interviews and performances, this biography reveals the philosophy and motivations behind Trudell's work and his relationship to contemporary Indian history.
57 minutes
HOME $24.95
EDU $24.95
Includes Public Performance Rights
EDU + Digital Rights $325
Includes Public Performance Rights
Amazon Digital Download
Rent $1.99 | Buy $9.99
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Way of the Warrior
Producer Patty Loew (Ojibwe)
Patty Loew (Ojibwe) is a professor in the Department of Life Science Communication and affiliated with American Indian Studies, the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies program. She is also a documentary film producer. She was a producer for WHA-TV (PBS) and co-host of In Wisconsin, a weekly news and public affairs program that aired statewide on Wisconsin Public Television. Loew also served as a reporter, anchor, writer and producer at three other stations in Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin.
Way of the Warrior
explores the warrior ethic among Native Americans, revealing how Native communities have traditionally viewed their warriors and why, during the 20th century, Native men and women have signed up for military service at a rate three times higher than non-Indians.
The film also examines the visceral nature of war and the bravery of Native American veterans who served in World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War--and came to grips with the difficult post-war personal and societal conditions.
57 minutes
HOME $29.95
EDU $225
Includes Public Performance Rights
EDU + Digital Rights $325
Includes Public Performance Rights
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In 1918, not yet citizens of the U.S., Choctaw members of the American Expeditionary Forces were asked by the government to use their Native language as a powerful tool against German Forces in World War I?
Choctaw Code Talkers
Producer
Valerie
Red-Horse (Cherokee/Sioux)
Valerie Red-Horse
(Cherokee/Sioux) is an award-winning filmmaker, entrepreneur and investment banker. She first became fascinated by the art of filmmaking in middle school, when her class was presented with a graphically intense anti-drug film that "scared us straight," she says. "I felt so drawn to the genre in terms of the ability to convey emotions and messages through film." She earned her Bachelor of Arts with Cum Laude honors from UCLA, where she majored in film and television acting.
Choctaw Code Talkers is a follow-up to the award-winning documentary
Tru
e Whispers: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers,
a PBS na
tionally broadcast documentary.
57 minutes
HOME $29.95
EDU $225
Includes Public Performance Rights
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