SCREENING SCHEDULE

Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action • This documentary film just premiered in Santa Barbara, California on February 3, '05. It received the Social Justice Award for Documentary Film and the Audience Award for Best Documentary Film! We are pleased and honored to be the second film festival to show this important film.
Directed by Roberta Grossman and produced by Katahdin Productions, Homeland takes a hard look at the environmental hazards that threaten Indian country from Maine to Alaska, Montana, and New Mexico. It tells the stories of the Native people who are working to save their country from pollution. In reality these hazards threaten all Americans.

Dancing with Photons • A Documentary Produced by Beverly Morris won the Bronze Award in 1998. This 30 minute film tells the story of Dr. Fred Begay, nuclear physicist, and how his Navajo teachings bring him success in the world of Theoretical Physics. Aspiring young science students would gain insight from this film. Skills in abstract thinking, and learning "to think outside the box," came easier to Dr. Bagel because of his background in Navajo world order.

Fire Warriors • Documentary, Directed and Produced by Darren Kipp of the Blackfeet Tribe. 30 minutes. The Chief Mountain Hotshots are an elite group of Native American fire fighters from the Blackfeet Reservation in North Central Montana. The Native Hotshots take great pride in being warriors against the threat of fire.

Powwow Highway • Action/comedy, 91 minutes, rated R, Directed by Jonathan Wacks, and starring A. Martinez and Gary Farmer. This 1989 film is now a classic. Two men from the Cheyenne Reservation head out on Philbert's (Gary Farmer) war pony, which is a "64 Buick Wildcat, on sort of a vision quest. They make several stops along the way to Santa Fe. It's a wild irreverent ride, and a delightful comedy with a great soundtrack.

The Great American Foot Race • Documentary, 60 minutes, Produced by Dan Bigbee and Lily Shangreaux. The film tells the little known story of one of the wildest promotion schemes in our history and of the small-town Cherokee farm boy, Andy Payne, who won the grueling 3,422-mile footrace.

The Business of Fancydancing • Drama, 103 minutes, not rated. Written and Directed by Sherman Alexie, starring Evan Adams and Gene Tagaban. Two college boys take different paths, one an openly gay poet, embraces the white world, the other returns to the rez. It is a powerful story of growth, death, and the choices that define us all.

The Return of Navajo Boy • Documentary, 57 minutes, Directed and Produced by Jeff Spitz and CO-produced by Bennie Klain. Official Sundance Film Festival 2000 selection.
The story chronicles an extraordinary chain of events, beginning with the appearance of a 1950's film reel, which lead to the return of a long lost brother to his Navajo family.