Coming Attractions
| APACHE SCOUTS, AN UNTOLD STORY Producer: Dustinn Craig (White Mountain Apache) |
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The US Army had little to no success subduing Apache bands of the Southwest until White Mountain Apaches enlisted as Army Scouts. The motive for this service was political strategy to secure homeland for posterity of White Mountain Apaches and had little to do with allegiance to the United States. |
| BRIDGE THE GAP TO PINE RIDGE Producer: Bridge the Gap TV, Inc. |
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Series Website: www.bridgethegaptv.com |
| CHASING VOICES: JOHN PEABODY HARRINGTON AND THE LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION MOVEMENT Producer: Daniel Golding (Quechan) |
| When linguistic and anthropologist John Peabody Harrington died in 1961 at the age of 77, few understood the significance of his work. Harrington was an eccentric, paranoid and obsessively driven anthropologist whose life's work became dedicated to preserving Native America's dying languages. Today, Harrington's legacy is now regarded as the "Rosetta Stone" that unlocks dozens of all-but-forgotten California Indian languages. |
| CRYING EARTH RISE UP Producers: Suree Towfighnia, Beth Sternheimer and Debra White Plume (Oglala Lakota) |
| A documentary about protecting one of the earth's most precious elements--water. Through characters who oppose and support the expansion of uranium mining over the High Plains/Ogallala--the largest fresh water underground source in North Dakota--and the Arikara aquifiers in western South Dakota and Nebraska, audiences learn about the important and timely issue of preserving and protecting the land and water before it becomes too late. |
| THE DULL KNIVES: MY FATHER AND ME Producers: Eli Cane |
| A mix of observational documentary and animation explore the experience of growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation through the eyes of fifteen-year-old George Dull Knife, over the course of a momentous and difficult year. |
| GROWING NATIVE |
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NAPT seeks stories that can be included in the seven-part series, Growing Native, which will focus on reclaiming traditional knowledge and food ways to address critical issues of health and wellness, the environment and human rights. Apply Now Program Website: www.nativetelecom.org/GrowingNative |
| GRAB Producer: Billy Luther (Laguna Pueblo/Hopi/Navajo) |
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Program Website: www.grabthemovie.com |
| INDIAN RELAY Producers: Charles Dye, Wayne Smith (Blackfeet/Crow) & KUSM-TV/Montana PBS |
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| INDIANS: AN UNEXPECTED STORY Producers: Roberta Grossman, Brian Wescott (Athabascan/Yup'ik), Deann Borshay Liem and Lisa Thomas |
| This four-hour series tells the vivid tale of Native Americans in the 20th Century and beyond. Comprised of interviews, family histories, archival footage and music, the series provides greater appreciation of the histories and achievements of contemporary Native American individuals and Indigenous communities. |
| INJUNUITY Producer: Adrian Baker (Hopi) |
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| LA DONNA HARRIS: INDIAN 101 Producer: Julianna Brannum (Comanche) |
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| LOSING GROUND Producer: Jenni Monet (Laguna Pueblo) |
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| THE MEDICINE GAME Producer: Lukas Korver |
 Two brothers from the Onondaga Nation pursue their dreams of playing lacrosse for national power, Syracuse University. With the dream nearly in reach, the boys are caught in a constant struggle to define their Native identity, live up to their family's expectations and balance challenges on and off the reservation. |
| MY LOUISIANA LOVE Producer: Within A Sense, Sharon Linezo Hong, Monique Verdin (Houma) |
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Program Website: www.mylouisianalove.com |
| RACING THE REZ Producer: Brian Truglio |
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| RISING VOICES Producer: The Language Conservancy, Lawrence Hott of Florentine Films/Hott Productions |
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A nation-building issue in Indian Country is the rescue and revival of Native American languages. Lakota youth in particular are eager to re-appropriate the language-and its embedded concepts of place, ethics, action, and purpose-on their own terms, sometimes in ways that clash with others expectations or the status quo. Producer Websites: |
| ROADMAN Producer: TricksterFilms, Bennie Klain (Navajo) |
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Roadman explores the origins and complexity of the Native American Church through the lens of practicing Navajo Roadmen. Producer Website: www.tricksterfilms.com |
| SACRED STICK Producer: Michelle Danforth (Oneida of Wisconsin), Patty Loew (Bad River Ojibwe) |
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| SOUSA ON THE REZ Producer: Cathleen O'Connell |
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Program Website: www.sousaontherez.com |
| URBAN INDIANS Producer: Rocky Mountain PBS |
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Urban Indians is a one-hour documentary film that explores the legacy of the U.S. government's policies that terminated Tribal status and relocated Reservation & off-Reservation Indians to metropolitan cities across the country. The Termination & Relocation period lasted from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s, yet, generations later, its impact can still be felt today. Personal stories from those who relocated, as well as those who returned, are woven together with stories from their children and grandchildren, and with analysis and commentary from Native authors, artists and scholars. Urban Indians from several cities, including Denver, Colorado, share stories of a life filled with contradictions--of living in two different cultures; of adventure and disenfranchisement; and of identity lost and identity reclaimed. Ultimately, this is a positive story of triumph over adversity. While these diverse voices create a larger window into the national collective of contemporary American history and the American Indian's urbanization experience, they also shed light on this very signifcant population that is too often misunderstood or overlooked. |
| WARRIOR WOMEN Producer: Elizabeth Castle |
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From the perspective of Lakota activist Madonna Thunder Hawk, the film traces the untold history of women's activism in the Red Power Movement and follows Thunder Hawk as she encounters the major players in events that changed the landscape of Indian Country forever. Program Website: www.warriorwomen.org |
| WITHOUT A TRIBE Producer: Cynthia Jeannette Gomez (NM Genizaro) |
| This documentary film unlocks the clandestine social, economic and political conditions of the late 1600s when Native youth and women were stolen from homelands and imprisoned, then ransomed into domestic servitude, hard labor and military training only to be labeled with lowest class identity as Genizaro Indians. Today's Genizaro descendants continue to struggle to maintain their communal homelands and recognize this Genizaro heritage. |
Bridge the Gap is an internationally recognized documentary-web series about sustainable development and cultural immersion. Twenty-three-year-old Chris Bashinelli (The Sopranos, MTV) highlights the captivating facet and challenging issues of everyday life as he will follows “a day in the life of” the Oglala Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. 
GRAB is an intimate portrait of the little-documented Grab Day in the villages of the Laguna Pueblo Tribe, who annually throw water and food items from the rooftop of a home to people standing below them. A community-wide prayer of abundance, thanks and renewal, Grab Day exists at the intersection of traditional Native and contemporary Western cultures.
Using a mix of animation, music and ideas from people who see the world from a Native American perspective, the film explores such topics as Creation, First Contact and the Soul of America and offers a visually stunning, thought-provoking mosaic of reflections on our shared past, turbulent present and undiscovered future.
Comanche activist LaDonna Harris, who has led an extensive life of Indian political and social activism, is now passing her traditional cultural and leadership values to a new generation of emerging indigenous leaders.
The history of lacrosse in North America is a rich and multi-layered one. Much more than a Native American ball and stick game, lacrosse is a cultural window into Native American communities and their historical relationship with each other and the dominant culture. Our goal is to develop a documentary that looks at the culture, history and resurfacing of lacrosse as it relates to Natives and Non-Natives.
The phrase "Native American music" may not invoke tubas and baton twirlers, but brass band music has been a part of Native culture for more than a century. Combining portraits of contemporary bands and archival material, the film offers an unexpected view into this surprising music scene.
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