A Native American Film and Video Festival
Thursday * June 2 - Sunday * June 5 * 1994
Presented By
The Scottsdale Center for the Arts * Atlatl: National Service
Organization For Native American Artists * The Native American
Producers Alliance
Victor Masayesva (Hopi)
Artistic Director
"Imaging Indians" is a comprehensive international forum on Indian issues
in film and video from the indigenous perspective. The festival will focus
on a series of films made by Indians as well as films about Indians, plus
panel discussions, guest speakers, and screening of works-in-progress.
Partial List of Festival Guests:
Dr. Louis Ballard, Tantoo Cardinal, Gary Farmer, Ava Hamilton, Tony
Hillerman, Phil Lucas, Merata Mita, R. Carlos Nakai, Kimberly Norris, Diane
Reyna, Sheila Tousey, Floyd Red Crow Westerman; and representatives from the
Apache, Hopi, Navajo, Maori, Pima, Central Australia, and Inuit Nations.
Sample of Special Invitation Films:
"Imagining Indians" by V. Masayesva (Hopi)
"Kanehsatake" by A. Obomsawin (Abenaki)
"The Seventh Fire" by Sandy Osawa (Makah)
"Everything Has A Spirit" bu Ava Hamilton (Arapaho)
"Navajo Talking Pictures" by Arlene Bowman (Navajo)
"Gathering Place" by Zachariah Kunuk (Inuit)
"Surviving Columbus" by Diane Reyna (Taos Pueblo)
"Mauri" by Merata Mita (Mauri)
"Malangi" by Michael Riley (Aboriginal Australian)
... and much, much more.
Panel Discussions: "Aesthetics of Native American Film"
"Sound Tracks for Indian Films"
"Intellectual Property Rights: Can Language, History,
Stories, Designs, and Rituals be Exclusively Owned?"
"Can a White Man Make A Film About An Indian?"
"Fact & Fiction: A Look At Incident At Oglala and
Thunderheart
"Economic Opportunities For Tribal Peoples In Film"
"The Life Of A Native American Actor"
Special Events at the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Tribal Community.
Workshop: "Copywriting Your Work" led by Ruth Ballard
Continuous Film Screenings & Screening of Student Works (including the work of
Pablo Lara Bellon (Mescalero Apache) :-)
For tickets call the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Box Office at
(602) 994-2787
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