The second annual First Nations Native American Film and Video Festival will be held at Facets Multimedia, 1517 W. Fullerton, on Saturday and Sunday, November 20 and 21. Tickets are $5; $3 for Facets members. For further information call 907-4667 or 784-0808.
Gil Cardinal’s Foster Child (1987) follows the filmmaker’s search at age 35 for his natural family; Arlene Bowman’s Navajo Talking Picture (1986) is her attempt to document the traditional life of her Navajo grandmother, who refuses to cooperate. (1:00)
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A 1992 video documentary made for TV about the history of the Pueblos before and after contact with Europeans. (1:00)
Short Videos, program one
Fidel Moreno’s Life Spirit, Melanie Printup Hope’s They’ve Seen the Land the Way It Was, Diane Kitchen’s Roots, Thorns, Beverly Moeser’s I’m Not Tonto, Randy Redroad’s Haircuts Hurt (1992), Bob Hauzous’s Bob Hauzous: Native American Sculptor (1992), and Dan Bigbee Jr.’s Stumblingbear (1992). (7:00)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21
Mona M. Smith and the Minnesota American Indian AIDS Task Force’s Her Giveaway (1988) and Honored by the Moon (1989), Smith and Nan Toskey’s That Which Is Between (1989), Pure Fe’s performance piece Follow Your Heart’s Desire, and Greg Jeresek and Doyle Robertson’s The Gathering. (1:00)
