Festival Program & Events

November 2, 2012

Napi

Friday, November 2, 2012 – 7:00 pm Evening Screening
Location: Bridge Theatre
Napi comes to town! To the left, to the right then finally down the middle, he shook the rattle. He had no place to hide. The rushing buffalo passed and took hold of him. – Read more

A Red Girls Reasoning

Friday, November 2, 2012 – 7:00 pm Evening Screening
Location: Bridge Theatre
After the justice system fails the survivor of a brutal, racially-driven sexual assault, she becomes a motorcycle-riding, ass-kicking vigilante who takes on the attackers of other women who’ve suffered the same fate. – Read more

Path of Souls

Friday, November 2, 2012 – 7:00 pm Evening Screening
Location: Bridge Theatre
Carved into rock and painted in caves across the North American landscape are tantalizing clues to an undiscovered history between Native Americans and the spirit beings with sacred teachings… – Read more

November 3, 2012

Sousa On The Rez

Saturday, November 3, 2012 – 12:00 pm Matinee Screening
Location: Bridge Theatre
Sousa On the Rez: Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum is a half-hour documentary that looks at the vibrant but little known tradition of brass band music in Indian country… – Read more

From the Heart

Saturday, November 3, 2012 – 12:00 pm Matinee Screening
Location: Bridge Theatre
The wake began at sunset and lasted all night. One hundred and twenty singers representing thirteen groups of Bird Singers from all over Southern California and the Southwest sang throughout … – Read more

Smoke Traders

Saturday, November 3, 2012 – 12:00 pm Matinee Screening
Location: Bridge Theatre
For centuries, Europeans have run the North American tobacco trade; today the First Nations people are taking it back. But is the tobacco trade a road to independence or criminality for Native people? – Read more

Bridge the Gap to Pine Ridge

Saturday, November 3, 2012 – 12:00 pm Matinee Screening
Location: Bridge Theatre
In Bridge the Gap, Host Chris Bashinelli travels the world to experience life outside of his hometown- Brooklyn, New York. In this program, he visits the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to explore a culture all but expunged from the history books, that of the Oglala Lakota Native Americans… – Read more

Vanishing Point

Saturday, November 3, 2012 – 12:00 pm Matinee Screening
Location: Bridge Theatre
A dog team pulls an Inughuit family across the vast sea ice of Greenland. But with the terrain melting beneath them, the dogs break through the surface, plunging into frigid polar waters… – Read more

REDress Redress Project

Saturday, November 3, 2012 – 7:00 pm Evening Screening
Location: Bridge Theatre
This REDress REdress Project short documentary examines the issue of Murdered and Missing Aboriginal women in Manitoba, Canada… – Read more

Nowa Cumig / The Drum Will Never Stop

Saturday, November 3, 2012 – 7:00 pm Evening Screening
Location: Bridge Theatre
This is the story of Dennis Banks and his movement for peace. Written and directed by a young filmmaker who followed him on the Longest Walk 2 to Japan and around the U.S… – Read more