The 6th Annual Red Nation Film Festival
November 3rd though November 9th, 2010
This event includes: 15 of the Best American Indian Indigenous Films; Red Nation Documentary FilmLab Program (Work-In-Progress Screening Series); Star-Studded Red is Green Carpet Galas; Opening & Closing Night Celebrations; Art Exhibits; Silent Auction; Red Nation FilmLab Conversations with ….. and so much more
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010 – 6:00pm to 10:00pm OPENING NIGHT – Hosted by Tim Robbins The Actors Gang Theatre 7th annual Red Nation Film Festival - The Authentic Voice of American Indian Cinema, Star-Studded Red is Green Carpet Galas / Red Nation is the NEW Glam / Native Fashion with Social Action....
“CANGLESKA WAKAN – The Sacred Hoop”
Director: Aitken Pearson
53 minutes * United Kingdom * Documentary Feature
Winner of 21 film festival awards.
Chief Arvol Looking Horse - Russell Means - Charlene Hollow Horn Bear
Cangleska Wakan is an intriguing documentary, an absolute must see for anyone interested in spirituality and the history of the American 'In Dio'
(In With God).
Q & A - Red Nation FilmLab Conversations with Filmmakers, Community Leaders, Spiritual Leaders.
WHERE:
The Actor’s Gang at the Ivy Substation (across from Trader Joe’s) 9070 Venice Blvd Culver City, CA 90232
6:00pm - 7:00pm: Star-Studded “Red is Green” Carpet arrivals.
7:00pm to 8:00pm: Reception, Silent Auction and Youth Art Exhibit Artist Montano Rain.
8:00pm to 9:15pm: Intro, and Feature Film 9:15pm to 9:30pm: Break 9:30pm to 10:00pm: Red Nation FilmLab Conversations with Filmmakers, Community Leaders, Spiritual Leaders.
Admission: Seating is limited. A suggested pledge of $25 to benefit “Native Women in Recovery in the Arts”
Presented by: Red Nation Celebration, CBS Corporation, The Actor's Gang, and The Walt Disney Company.
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Laemmle Sunset 5 Theatre
8000 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, California 90046
Friday, November 5, 2010
Showtime: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Admission: $7.00 per ticket
HAWAII, A Voice for Sovereignty
Director: Catherine Bauknight
84 Minutes * Documentary Feature
Winner of 5 film festival awards. Hawaii – A Voice for Sovereignty is a documentary film by photojournalist Catherine Bauknight that explores the culture of the Native Hawaiians and their connection to the land. At the forefront of the film are social, economic, and ecological issues that have developed in Hawaii since the takeover by the U.S. in 1893, revealed in interviews with grassroots indigenous people and scholars such as author, Haunani-Kay Trask. The documentary goal is to raise awareness of the issues faced by the Native Hawaiians, which threatens their ancient and environmentally sustainable culture. Bauknight hopes to bring this film to the world stage by theatrical release, screenings at international film festivals, and television programming.
Q & A - Red Nation FilmLab Conversations with Filmmakers: Catherine Bauknight
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Laemmle Sunset 5 Theatre – Showtimes: 1:00pm to 7:00pm 8000 W Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, California 90046
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Showtime: 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Admission: $7.00 per ticket
DON’T GET SICK AFTER JUNE: American Indian Health Care
Director: Chip Richie
60 Minutes * Documentary Feature
Narrated by: Peter Coyote
Ben Nighthorse Campbell Former U.S. Senator * Theresa Two Bulls * Chad Smith * August Schellenberg * Peter Coyote
Don't Get Sick After June: American Indian Healthcare Declared wards of the state, Native Americans were promised housing, education and healthcare in numerous treaties with the US Government. Like so many other federal promises, these too have not been met. The budget shortfall to the Indian Health Service continues. Add to this generational trauma of subjugation, reservations, boarding schools and alienation, their health and their healthcare is in a critical state. This is the story of the program's inception of our government's obligation to American first people.
Showtime: 2:00pm to 3:15pm
Admission: $7.00 per ticket
Of Mice and Men
Director: Kyle Hudlin-Whelan
74 Minutes • Canada * Feature
In this adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic novel, the main action of the story takes place today, in a rooming house in Winnipeg, rather than on a farm in California. George and Lennie are not migrant farm workers; rather, they are displaced Aboriginal teenagers who have left the desolation of their remote Northern community to drift across Southern Manitoba, looking for work. As their destiny unfolds tragically, they keep dreaming, not of their own farm, but of their own place up North in the bush, where they can live off the land by trapping, hunting and fishing.
With this amazing 'in-house' student production, the team at Argyle Alternative High School delivers a powerful and creative adaptation, served by strong acting an well-mastered filmmaking.
Showtime: 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Admission: A suggested pledge to benefit “Native Women in Recovery in the Arts”
Rape on Reservation
EXCLUSIVE In association with Current TV & Native Women in Film & Television
Director:
60 Minutes * Documentary Feature
From Current TV, a searing new documentary on how violence is affecting the lives of Native American women.
One in three Native American women will be raped in her lifetime. In South Dakota, where Native Americans make up just 9% of the population, more than 40% of the incidents of domestic and sexual violence take place on the state's reservations. A recent episode of Current TV's "Vanguard"
series turned its focus on one such reservation in South Dakota, where the growing epidemic of violence against women recently escalated to murder.
Q & A - Red Nation FilmLab Conversations with Native Women in Recovery in the Arts
Showtime: 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Admission: $10.00 per ticket
Randy Castillo
THE LIFE, BLOOD, & RHYTHM of RANDY CASTILLO Executive Producer: Mike Bell 40 Minutes • USA * Music Documentary Feature (work-in-progress)
Red Nation Documentary FilmLab Program – a work-in-progress screening series is an interactive event that reveals the anatomy of a documentary in the making. Work-In-Progress Screenings provide a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse into the creative process, a chance to meet the remarkable people the film follows, and the opportunity to engage in conversation with filmmakers, industry leaders, music leaders, on the ideas and concerns of the film.
Q & A - Red Nation FilmLab Conversations with …… Executive Producer Mike Bell, including invited guests/panelists: Marco Nunez (Randy’s Godson & touring drummer), Christina Lorenzatto (Randy’s former fiancée), Mark Binder (Lead singer, Red Square Black),Lita Ford, Nikki Sixx, Matt Sorum, Slash, Mike Inez, Phil Soussan, Tommy Lee Jones.
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Laemmle Sunset 5 Theater – Showtimes: Noon to 4:30pm 8000 W Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, California 90046
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Showtime: Noon to 2:00pm
Admission: A suggested pledge to benefit “Native Women in Recovery in the Arts”
DREAMKEEPER - The Myths & Legends of the American Indian.
Director: Steve Barron
Starring: August Schellenberg, Eddie Spears, Sage Galesi,
86 Minutes * USA * Feature
Dreamkeeper is a 2003 film written by John Fusco and directed by Steve Barron. The main plot of the film is the conflict between a Lakota elder and storyteller named Pete Chasing Horse (August Schellenberg) and his Lakota grandson, Shane Chasing Horse (Eddie Spears). The plot unwinds as the two travel from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota to the fictitious All Nations powwow in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a trip the grandson takes only under duress. Along the way, the grandfather tells his grandson various Indian stories and legends to help him understand and choose the "good red road," i.e. to embrace an Indian identity.
Q & A - Red Nation FilmLab Conversations with …… cast members.
Showtime: 2:30pm to 4:30pm
Admission: A suggested pledge to benefit “Native Women in Recovery in the Arts”
ENVIRONMENTAL FILM – presented by Help the Earth / An Environmental Youth Empowerment Organization
THE 11TH HOUR
Director: Nadia Conners, Leila Conners Petersen
92 Minutes • USA * Music Documentary Feature Produced & Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio
PLOT
With contributions from over 50 politicians, scientists, and environmental activists, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, and journalist Paul Hawken, the film documents the grave problems facing the planet's life systems. Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans' habitats are all addressed. The film's premise is that the future of humanity is in jeopardy.
The film proposes potential solutions to these problems by calling for restorative action by the reshaping and rethinking of global human activity through technology, social responsibility and conservation.
Q & A - Red Nation FilmLab Conversations with …… founder of Help the Earth Montano Rain.
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Laemmle Sunset 5 Theater – Showtimes: 5:00pm to Midnight 8000 W Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, California 90046
Monday, November 8, 2010
Showtime: 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Admission: $7.00 per ticket for full 2 hours of programming.
DOC SHORTS
TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS VALUES
Director: Ruth Villasenor
7:54 Minutes • USA * Short
UNRESERVED – The Work of Louie Gong
Director: Tracy Rector
13:42 Minutes • USA * Short
WHAT WE KNOW NOW
Director: Orleta Slick
10 Minutes • USA * Short
OWNERS OF THE WATER CONFLICT and COLLABORATION
Directors: Laura R. Graham, David Hernandez Palmar, Caimi Waiasse
34 Minutes * Brazil/Venezuela/USA * Short
SOMEWHERE IN COLORADO
Director:Jason Lester, George Tew
6 Minutes • USA * Short
Showtime: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Admission: $7.00 per ticket
SPECIAL Screening – A Tribute to the late Dennis Hopper THE LAST MOVIE
Director: Dennis Hopper
108 Minutes * Feature Film
Kansas (Hopper) is a stunt coordinator in charge of horses on a western being shot in a small Peruvian village. Following a tragic incident on the set where an actor is killed in a stunt, Kansas decides to quit the movie business and stay in Peru with a local woman. Kansas thinks he has found paradise, but is soon called in to help in a bizarre incident: the Peruvian natives are "filming" their own movie with "cameras" made of sticks, and acting out real western movie violence, as they don't understand movie fakery. The film touches on the ideas of fiction versus reality, especially in regards to cinema. The movie is presented in a way that challenges the viewer's traditional cinematic understanding of storytelling, by presenting the story in a non-chronological fashion, and by including several devices typically only seen behind the scenes of filmmaking (rough edits and "scene missing" cards), and the use of jarring jump cuts.
Q & A - Red Nation FilmLab Conversations with ……
NOTE: Dennis Hopper was RNFF Founder’s Legal Guardian in Taos, NM in ‘69.
Joanelle Romero lived with Dennis Hopper in Taos NM, right after “Easy Rider” came out, from age 12 to 17 years old. You can read all about it in her soon to be released book “Joanelle Romero – Growing Up In Hollywood “ (working title) release date 2011.
Showtime: 10:00pm to 10:30pm
Admission: $7.00 per ticket
RED NATION "NATIVE YOUTH FILMS"
THE LIZARD PEOPLE from Chaco Canyon
Producer: Nancy Up The Grove (Seneca/Wolf Clan/Cornplanter Band of New York) 30 Minutes • USA * Short Under the direction of Nancy Up The Grove, her gifted and talented students on the Navajo Reservation created this film. Class of 2010.
Showtime: 10:30pm to Midnight
Admission: $7.00 per ticket
THE DEAD CAN’T DANCE
Director: Rodrick Pocowatchit
102 Minutes • USA * Feature
Dax Wildhorse knew this wasn't going to be a good day. But is should have been. This was the day that he was driving his nephew, Eddie, off to college. Along with Eddie's estranged father, Ray, they pull into a Kansas rest stop, lost and tired.
Then it happens. With a gust of wind, everyone around them suddenly drops dead. But they are somehow immune to what's killing everyone. Is it because of their Native American Blood?
But they don't have time to ask questions. Stranded in the country, they encounter a strange survivor who blames everything on an alien attack, and Eddie becomes terribly ill. But that's not the worst of their problems.
Taking refuge in a remote school, the men encounter some weird people who seem be zombies!
As the modern-day warriors try to fight off the newly undead, they must put aside their differences to survive. Because Dax was right. This wasn't a good day at all.
But will there be another?
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010 – 6:00pm to 10:00pm CLOSING NIGHT – Red Nation Film & Tribute Awards Ceremony Hosted by CBS Center Studios 7th annual Red Nation Film Festival - The Authentic Voice of American Indian Cinema, Star-Studded Red is Green Carpet Galas / Red Nation is the NEW Glam / Native Fashion with Social Action....
"Hollywood has Oscar, Broadway has Tony, Television has the Emmy, and now American Indian has the Red Nation Film Award."
Phillip M. Hoazous in attendance. Red Nation tapped New Mexico sculptor artist Phillip Mangas Haozous son of the late Apache sculptor artist Allan Houser to create and design “The Red Nation Statuette.”
For the very first time in the history of American film, Native actors, filmmakers, and producers have a coveted award equivalent to the well known “Oscar”. It symbolizes exceptional achievement and filmmaking excellence.
Red Nation Film Award of Excellence ... and the WINNER is ....
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Director
Best Feature Film
Best Producer
Best Screenplay
Best Documentary Film
Lifetime Achievement Award
TRIBUTE AWARDS
Red Nation Vision Award > Chief Oren Lyons - Oren Lyons (Wolf Clan-Onondaga), Faithkeeper and world spokesperson for the rights of indigenous peoples.
Edward Albert Jr Indigenous Film Award > Oliver Stone, Director.
Brando Award > Vicangelo Bulluck, NAACP - in attendance.
Best Network Award > ABC Disney.
Red Nation Humanitarian Award > Dr. Jane Goodall.
Red Nation Community Award > Dave Rambeau UAII - in attendance.
Red Nation “Oyate” Award > Elizabeth & Dennis Kucinich - in attendance.
Red Nation Theatre Playwright Award > Tim Robbins
Red Nation Activists Award > TBA
Red Nation Student Film Project Award > TBA
WHERE:
CBS Studio Center
4024 Radford Avenue
Studio City, CA 91604
6:00pm - 7:30pm: Star-Studded “Red is Green” Carpet arrivals with Art Exhibit Artisit Phillip M. Hoazous.
7:30pm to 8:30pm: Intro’s and Dinner.
8:30 to 10:00pm: Film & Tribute Awards Ceremony.
Admission: Seating is limited. $100.00 per seat.
Presented by: Red Nation Celebration, CBS Corporation, The Actor's Gang, and The Walt Disney Company.
This event includes: 15 of the Best American Indian Indigenous Films; Red Nation Documentary FilmLab Program (Work-In-Progress Screening Series); Star-Studded Red is Green Carpet Galas; Opening & Closing Night Celebrations; Art Exhibits; Silent Auction; Red Nation FilmLab Conversations with ….. and so much more
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010 – 6:00pm to 10:00pm OPENING NIGHT – Hosted by Tim Robbins The Actors Gang Theatre 7th annual Red Nation Film Festival - The Authentic Voice of American Indian Cinema, Star-Studded Red is Green Carpet Galas / Red Nation is the NEW Glam / Native Fashion with Social Action....
“CANGLESKA WAKAN – The Sacred Hoop”
Director: Aitken Pearson
53 minutes * United Kingdom * Documentary Feature
Winner of 21 film festival awards.
Chief Arvol Looking Horse - Russell Means - Charlene Hollow Horn Bear
Cangleska Wakan is an intriguing documentary, an absolute must see for anyone interested in spirituality and the history of the American 'In Dio'
(In With God).
Q & A - Red Nation FilmLab Conversations with Filmmakers, Community Leaders, Spiritual Leaders.
WHERE:
The Actor’s Gang at the Ivy Substation (across from Trader Joe’s) 9070 Venice Blvd Culver City, CA 90232
6:00pm - 7:00pm: Star-Studded “Red is Green” Carpet arrivals.
7:00pm to 8:00pm: Reception, Silent Auction and Youth Art Exhibit Artist Montano Rain.
8:00pm to 9:15pm: Intro, and Feature Film 9:15pm to 9:30pm: Break 9:30pm to 10:00pm: Red Nation FilmLab Conversations with Filmmakers, Community Leaders, Spiritual Leaders.
Admission: Seating is limited. A suggested pledge of $25 to benefit “Native Women in Recovery in the Arts”
Presented by: Red Nation Celebration, CBS Corporation, The Actor's Gang, and The Walt Disney Company.
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Laemmle Sunset 5 Theatre
8000 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, California 90046
Friday, November 5, 2010
Showtime: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Admission: $7.00 per ticket
HAWAII, A Voice for Sovereignty
Director: Catherine Bauknight
84 Minutes * Documentary Feature
Winner of 5 film festival awards. Hawaii – A Voice for Sovereignty is a documentary film by photojournalist Catherine Bauknight that explores the culture of the Native Hawaiians and their connection to the land. At the forefront of the film are social, economic, and ecological issues that have developed in Hawaii since the takeover by the U.S. in 1893, revealed in interviews with grassroots indigenous people and scholars such as author, Haunani-Kay Trask. The documentary goal is to raise awareness of the issues faced by the Native Hawaiians, which threatens their ancient and environmentally sustainable culture. Bauknight hopes to bring this film to the world stage by theatrical release, screenings at international film festivals, and television programming.
Q & A - Red Nation FilmLab Conversations with Filmmakers: Catherine Bauknight
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Laemmle Sunset 5 Theatre – Showtimes: 1:00pm to 7:00pm 8000 W Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, California 90046
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Showtime: 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Admission: $7.00 per ticket
DON’T GET SICK AFTER JUNE: American Indian Health Care
Director: Chip Richie
60 Minutes * Documentary Feature
Narrated by: Peter Coyote
Ben Nighthorse Campbell Former U.S. Senator * Theresa Two Bulls * Chad Smith * August Schellenberg * Peter Coyote
Don't Get Sick After June: American Indian Healthcare Declared wards of the state, Native Americans were promised housing, education and healthcare in numerous treaties with the US Government. Like so many other federal promises, these too have not been met. The budget shortfall to the Indian Health Service continues. Add to this generational trauma of subjugation, reservations, boarding schools and alienation, their health and their healthcare is in a critical state. This is the story of the program's inception of our government's obligation to American first people.
Showtime: 2:00pm to 3:15pm
Admission: $7.00 per ticket
Of Mice and Men
Director: Kyle Hudlin-Whelan
74 Minutes • Canada * Feature
In this adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic novel, the main action of the story takes place today, in a rooming house in Winnipeg, rather than on a farm in California. George and Lennie are not migrant farm workers; rather, they are displaced Aboriginal teenagers who have left the desolation of their remote Northern community to drift across Southern Manitoba, looking for work. As their destiny unfolds tragically, they keep dreaming, not of their own farm, but of their own place up North in the bush, where they can live off the land by trapping, hunting and fishing.
With this amazing 'in-house' student production, the team at Argyle Alternative High School delivers a powerful and creative adaptation, served by strong acting an well-mastered filmmaking.
Showtime: 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Admission: A suggested pledge to benefit “Native Women in Recovery in the Arts”
Rape on Reservation
EXCLUSIVE In association with Current TV & Native Women in Film & Television
Director:
60 Minutes * Documentary Feature
From Current TV, a searing new documentary on how violence is affecting the lives of Native American women.
One in three Native American women will be raped in her lifetime. In South Dakota, where Native Americans make up just 9% of the population, more than 40% of the incidents of domestic and sexual violence take place on the state's reservations. A recent episode of Current TV's "Vanguard"
series turned its focus on one such reservation in South Dakota, where the growing epidemic of violence against women recently escalated to murder.
Q & A - Red Nation FilmLab Conversations with Native Women in Recovery in the Arts
Showtime: 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Admission: $10.00 per ticket
Randy Castillo
THE LIFE, BLOOD, & RHYTHM of RANDY CASTILLO Executive Producer: Mike Bell 40 Minutes • USA * Music Documentary Feature (work-in-progress)
Red Nation Documentary FilmLab Program – a work-in-progress screening series is an interactive event that reveals the anatomy of a documentary in the making. Work-In-Progress Screenings provide a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse into the creative process, a chance to meet the remarkable people the film follows, and the opportunity to engage in conversation with filmmakers, industry leaders, music leaders, on the ideas and concerns of the film.
Q & A - Red Nation FilmLab Conversations with …… Executive Producer Mike Bell, including invited guests/panelists: Marco Nunez (Randy’s Godson & touring drummer), Christina Lorenzatto (Randy’s former fiancée), Mark Binder (Lead singer, Red Square Black),Lita Ford, Nikki Sixx, Matt Sorum, Slash, Mike Inez, Phil Soussan, Tommy Lee Jones.
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Laemmle Sunset 5 Theater – Showtimes: Noon to 4:30pm 8000 W Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, California 90046
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Showtime: Noon to 2:00pm
Admission: A suggested pledge to benefit “Native Women in Recovery in the Arts”
DREAMKEEPER - The Myths & Legends of the American Indian.
Director: Steve Barron
Starring: August Schellenberg, Eddie Spears, Sage Galesi,
86 Minutes * USA * Feature
Dreamkeeper is a 2003 film written by John Fusco and directed by Steve Barron. The main plot of the film is the conflict between a Lakota elder and storyteller named Pete Chasing Horse (August Schellenberg) and his Lakota grandson, Shane Chasing Horse (Eddie Spears). The plot unwinds as the two travel from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota to the fictitious All Nations powwow in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a trip the grandson takes only under duress. Along the way, the grandfather tells his grandson various Indian stories and legends to help him understand and choose the "good red road," i.e. to embrace an Indian identity.
Q & A - Red Nation FilmLab Conversations with …… cast members.
Showtime: 2:30pm to 4:30pm
Admission: A suggested pledge to benefit “Native Women in Recovery in the Arts”
ENVIRONMENTAL FILM – presented by Help the Earth / An Environmental Youth Empowerment Organization
THE 11TH HOUR
Director: Nadia Conners, Leila Conners Petersen
92 Minutes • USA * Music Documentary Feature Produced & Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio
PLOT
With contributions from over 50 politicians, scientists, and environmental activists, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, and journalist Paul Hawken, the film documents the grave problems facing the planet's life systems. Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans' habitats are all addressed. The film's premise is that the future of humanity is in jeopardy.
The film proposes potential solutions to these problems by calling for restorative action by the reshaping and rethinking of global human activity through technology, social responsibility and conservation.
Q & A - Red Nation FilmLab Conversations with …… founder of Help the Earth Montano Rain.
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Laemmle Sunset 5 Theater – Showtimes: 5:00pm to Midnight 8000 W Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, California 90046
Monday, November 8, 2010
Showtime: 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Admission: $7.00 per ticket for full 2 hours of programming.
DOC SHORTS
TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS VALUES
Director: Ruth Villasenor
7:54 Minutes • USA * Short
UNRESERVED – The Work of Louie Gong
Director: Tracy Rector
13:42 Minutes • USA * Short
WHAT WE KNOW NOW
Director: Orleta Slick
10 Minutes • USA * Short
OWNERS OF THE WATER CONFLICT and COLLABORATION
Directors: Laura R. Graham, David Hernandez Palmar, Caimi Waiasse
34 Minutes * Brazil/Venezuela/USA * Short
SOMEWHERE IN COLORADO
Director:Jason Lester, George Tew
6 Minutes • USA * Short
Showtime: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Admission: $7.00 per ticket
SPECIAL Screening – A Tribute to the late Dennis Hopper THE LAST MOVIE
Director: Dennis Hopper
108 Minutes * Feature Film
Kansas (Hopper) is a stunt coordinator in charge of horses on a western being shot in a small Peruvian village. Following a tragic incident on the set where an actor is killed in a stunt, Kansas decides to quit the movie business and stay in Peru with a local woman. Kansas thinks he has found paradise, but is soon called in to help in a bizarre incident: the Peruvian natives are "filming" their own movie with "cameras" made of sticks, and acting out real western movie violence, as they don't understand movie fakery. The film touches on the ideas of fiction versus reality, especially in regards to cinema. The movie is presented in a way that challenges the viewer's traditional cinematic understanding of storytelling, by presenting the story in a non-chronological fashion, and by including several devices typically only seen behind the scenes of filmmaking (rough edits and "scene missing" cards), and the use of jarring jump cuts.
Q & A - Red Nation FilmLab Conversations with ……
NOTE: Dennis Hopper was RNFF Founder’s Legal Guardian in Taos, NM in ‘69.
Joanelle Romero lived with Dennis Hopper in Taos NM, right after “Easy Rider” came out, from age 12 to 17 years old. You can read all about it in her soon to be released book “Joanelle Romero – Growing Up In Hollywood “ (working title) release date 2011.
Showtime: 10:00pm to 10:30pm
Admission: $7.00 per ticket
RED NATION "NATIVE YOUTH FILMS"
THE LIZARD PEOPLE from Chaco Canyon
Producer: Nancy Up The Grove (Seneca/Wolf Clan/Cornplanter Band of New York) 30 Minutes • USA * Short Under the direction of Nancy Up The Grove, her gifted and talented students on the Navajo Reservation created this film. Class of 2010.
Showtime: 10:30pm to Midnight
Admission: $7.00 per ticket
THE DEAD CAN’T DANCE
Director: Rodrick Pocowatchit
102 Minutes • USA * Feature
Dax Wildhorse knew this wasn't going to be a good day. But is should have been. This was the day that he was driving his nephew, Eddie, off to college. Along with Eddie's estranged father, Ray, they pull into a Kansas rest stop, lost and tired.
Then it happens. With a gust of wind, everyone around them suddenly drops dead. But they are somehow immune to what's killing everyone. Is it because of their Native American Blood?
But they don't have time to ask questions. Stranded in the country, they encounter a strange survivor who blames everything on an alien attack, and Eddie becomes terribly ill. But that's not the worst of their problems.
Taking refuge in a remote school, the men encounter some weird people who seem be zombies!
As the modern-day warriors try to fight off the newly undead, they must put aside their differences to survive. Because Dax was right. This wasn't a good day at all.
But will there be another?
*****************************************************************
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 – 6:00pm to 10:00pm CLOSING NIGHT – Red Nation Film & Tribute Awards Ceremony Hosted by CBS Center Studios 7th annual Red Nation Film Festival - The Authentic Voice of American Indian Cinema, Star-Studded Red is Green Carpet Galas / Red Nation is the NEW Glam / Native Fashion with Social Action....
"Hollywood has Oscar, Broadway has Tony, Television has the Emmy, and now American Indian has the Red Nation Film Award."
Phillip M. Hoazous in attendance. Red Nation tapped New Mexico sculptor artist Phillip Mangas Haozous son of the late Apache sculptor artist Allan Houser to create and design “The Red Nation Statuette.”
For the very first time in the history of American film, Native actors, filmmakers, and producers have a coveted award equivalent to the well known “Oscar”. It symbolizes exceptional achievement and filmmaking excellence.
Red Nation Film Award of Excellence ... and the WINNER is ....
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Director
Best Feature Film
Best Producer
Best Screenplay
Best Documentary Film
Lifetime Achievement Award
TRIBUTE AWARDS
Red Nation Vision Award > Chief Oren Lyons - Oren Lyons (Wolf Clan-Onondaga), Faithkeeper and world spokesperson for the rights of indigenous peoples.
Edward Albert Jr Indigenous Film Award > Oliver Stone, Director.
Brando Award > Vicangelo Bulluck, NAACP - in attendance.
Best Network Award > ABC Disney.
Red Nation Humanitarian Award > Dr. Jane Goodall.
Red Nation Community Award > Dave Rambeau UAII - in attendance.
Red Nation “Oyate” Award > Elizabeth & Dennis Kucinich - in attendance.
Red Nation Theatre Playwright Award > Tim Robbins
Red Nation Activists Award > TBA
Red Nation Student Film Project Award > TBA
WHERE:
CBS Studio Center
4024 Radford Avenue
Studio City, CA 91604
6:00pm - 7:30pm: Star-Studded “Red is Green” Carpet arrivals with Art Exhibit Artisit Phillip M. Hoazous.
7:30pm to 8:30pm: Intro’s and Dinner.
8:30 to 10:00pm: Film & Tribute Awards Ceremony.
Admission: Seating is limited. $100.00 per seat.
Presented by: Red Nation Celebration, CBS Corporation, The Actor's Gang, and The Walt Disney Company.