Pehin

Festival Premiere

LIVE ACTION | United States | 6 MINUTES | English

Pehin

An Indigenous female vigilante struggles to come to terms with murdering and scalping a man responsible for missing Indigenous women.

CAST & CREDITS

Directed by Juliana Brown Eyes (Oglala Lakota)

Director

Juliana Brown Eyes

Screenwriter

Juliana Brown Eyes

Editor

Juliana Brown Eyes

Ticket at Theater Door / Will Call List

Program One

Showtimes

Thursday, March 9
IN-PERSON

Red is Green Carpet: 2:30
Screening: 3:00 to 5:30pm

Q & A with Filmmakers

Venue

Fine Arts Theatre

8556 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90211

Parking

Beverly Hills City Garage
321 S La Cienega Blvd

Before 4pm (2 hours Free)
After 4pm (Free)

Parking at meters:
Free After 6pm (7pm on Wilshire)

une fille étrange

Festival Premiere

LIVE ACTION | United States | 25 MINUTES | English

une fille étrange

(“A Strange Girl”)
A young artist is stuck in a purgatory-like state, between deep-rooted personal challenges and a blossoming career.

CAST & CREDITS

Directed by ZsaZsa K.

Director

ZsaZsa K.

Producer

Aaron M. Kahn

Writer

ZsaZsa K.

Cast

Marie Sue

Ticket at Theater Door / Will Call List

Program One

Showtimes

Thursday, March 9
IN-PERSON

Red is Green Carpet: 2:30
Screening: 3:00 to 5:30pm

Q & A with Filmmakers

Venue

Fine Arts Theatre

8556 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90211

Parking

Beverly Hills City Garage
321 S La Cienega Blvd

Before 4pm (2 hours Free)
After 4pm (Free)

Parking at meters:
Free After 6pm (7pm on Wilshire)

Rose

Festival Premiere

LIVE ACTION | Canada | 24 MINUTES | English

Rose

Rose is the story of a sixteen-year-old pregnant Indigenous girl, pulled from her community and placed in a church to be overseen in her last weeks of pregnancy. When she delivers her child, it will be taken from her and put into a Canadian home by decree of an Indian Agent, Angus O’Byrne. Rose harbours a secret, and will not tell anyone the identity of the baby’s father—not even her family. It is later revealed that the father of her child is a young Mohawk man named Michael who wants to keep the child in the community.

CAST & CREDITS

Directed by Roxann Whitebean

Roxann Whitebean is from the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawà:ke and a member of the Wolf Clan. She began her career on APTN’s television series, Mohawk Girls, as an assistant director.

She made her directorial debut in 2014 with financial assistance
from the Canada Council for the Arts to produce Legend of the Storm. In 2016, she opened a production company called Whitebean Media Arts, which has been producing work for CBC’s digital platform; Thunder Blanket, Karihwanoron: Precious Things and Little Hard Knox, available to stream online.

She won the best drama pitch prize at the 2015 ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts festival and was selected by the Whistler Film Festival as an Aboriginal Fellow. She is a National Screen Institute Alumni, where she produced Flat Rocks, which will air on APTN in 2018.

In 2017, she wrote and directed 10 episodes of a 20-part children’s series for Apartment 11 Productions called Raven’s Quest for TVO Kids, now in its second season. Her most recent work is The Paradigm, which had its world premiere at the L.A Skins Film Festival in Hollywood. She was a nominee for Hot Doc’s Lindalee Tracey emerging artist award and a recipient of the Reveal Indigenous Arts Awards as well as a profiled artist in the 2017 fall issue of Playback Magazine entitled “Talent on the Rise.” A recent achievement is that she was selected as a ‘Top 25” in the Diversity of Voices initiative hosted by the BANFF World Media Festival.

Director

Roxann Whitebean

Producer

Jason Brennan

Writer

Roxann Whitebean

Cast

Tunchai Redvers, Passion Diabo, Alex Rice, Masha Peter, Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie

On Sale March 5th
Streaming on Red Nation Television Network

The Handsome Man

Los Angeles Premiere

LIVE ACTION | United States | 15 MINUTES | English

The Handsome Man

When River meets a stranger who calls himself “The Handsome Man,” on the borders of her reservation, she invites him home, and all manner of commotion ensues. Can Grandpa restore balance to the family and heal a generations’ old curse?

CAST & CREDITS

Directed by Misty Shipman, Hope Shipman

Director

Misty Shipman, Hope Shipman

Producer

One Heart Native Arts and Film Festival, Trevin Spencer

Writer

Misty Shipman, Hope Shipman, Johnny Arlee

Cast

Evan Adams, Lily Gladstone, Jim Tomeo

On Sale March 5th
Streaming on Red Nation Television Network

Red & White

Festival Premiere

DOCUMENTARY SHORT | Canada | 9 MINUTES | English

Red & White

Dance, film, spoken word and performance to explore the theme of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada, in connection to land and resources and colonization.

CAST & CREDITS

Directed by Sandra Lamouche

Sandra Lamouche. Nehiyaw Iskwew from the Bigstone Cree Nation in Treaty 8. Champion hoop dancer, award winning educator, writer, artist, storyteller.

Director

Sandra Lamouche

Producer

Sandra Lamouche

Writer

Sandra Lamouche

Cast

Sandra Lamouche

On Sale March 5th
Streaming on Red Nation Television Network

Samqwan: Water

Festival Premiere

DOCUMENTARY SHORT | Canada | 18 MINUTES | English

Samqwan: Water

This is a short documentary about the current threats to our water systems from the extractive industry bolstered by politicians. The only way to save the water is for Canadians and Americans to join with Indigenous peoples while we protect the water for all life on Mother Earth. (This was a podcast turned into a documentary short).

CAST & CREDITS

Directed by Pamela Palmater

Director

Pamela Palmater

Producer

Pamela Palmater

Writer

Pamela Palmater

Cast

Pamela Palmater

Video Editor

Matt Horsman

Samquan Ni Mimijuagn

Eastern Eagle Singers

On Sale March 5th
Streaming on Red Nation Television Network

Medicine and Obligations

Festival Premiere

DOCUMENTARY SHORT | United States | 10 MINUTES | English

Medicine and Obligations

The documentary is about Indigenous students grappling with the obligations of college at Northern Arizona University (NAU), while maintaining traditional practices that are integral to health and traditional medicine. The students point out the hypocrisy of NAU claiming to be the leading university serving Indigenous students, while contributing to cultural erasure and cultural genocide.

CAST & CREDITS

Directed by Tinia Witherspoon

Tinia Witherspoon is Diné from the Hardrock Chapter community on the Navajo Nation. Tinia is studying psychology and film, while working to empower Indigenous community voices. Utilizing film resources is Tinia’s way of educating herself, while staying connected to Indigenous teachings. Walking in two different worlds that combat each other, while creating media justice in Indigenous media deserts is Tinia’s ultimate goal.

Director

Tinia Witherspoon

Cast

Tinia Witherspoon, Rebecca Chee, Hawthrone Dukepoo, Tyrrell Tapaha

On Sale March 5th
Streaming on Red Nation Television Network

Lily Gladstone: Far Out There

Festival Premiere

DOCUMENTARY SHORT | United States | 13 MINUTES | English

Lily Gladstone: Far Out There

Follow Native American actress Lily Gladstone as she share her love of her craft and prepares for the release of her highest profile Hollywood film to date. Gladstone shares with us how her foundation and making her voice heard as a professional actor shapes her career, and her understanding of the profession.

CAST & CREDITS

Directed by Brooke Pepion Swaney

Director

Brooke Pepion Swaney

Producer

Jeri Rafter

Cast

Lily Gladstone

Ticket at Theater Door / Will Call List

Program One

Showtimes

Thursday, March 9
IN-PERSON

Red is Green Carpet: 2:30
Screening: 3:00 to 5:30pm

Q & A with Filmmakers

Venue

Fine Arts Theatre

8556 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90211

Parking

Beverly Hills City Garage
321 S La Cienega Blvd

Before 4pm (2 hours Free)
After 4pm (Free)

Parking at meters:
Free After 6pm (7pm on Wilshire)

Kokum, with love.

USA Premiere

DOCUMENTARY SHORT | Canada | 11 MINUTES | English

Kokum, with love.

Flora Bear’s youngest granddaughter searches for truth and answers about her Indigenous grandmother’s life.

This short documentary is the filmmaker’s personal journey of discovery to honour her late grandmother’s life and understand her family history .

CAST & CREDITS

Directed by Kim Stadfeld

Kim Stadfeld is an Anishinaabe woman (she/her) originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba currently living in Toronto Ontario. She is Ojibway/Métis on her mother’s side and Icelandic on her father’s side. Kim is a proud member of the Brokenhead Ojibway First Nation in Treaty 1 Territory.

She is a bead work artist, aspiring writer and a video Post-Production professional with over 25 years Broadcast Television experience. Kim is a graduate from the University of Manitoba Bachelor of Arts Native Studies program and also studied Media Production at Assiniboine Community College in Brandon, Manitoba.

Kim recently expanded her voice as an artist at the 2020 Indigenous Storytellers and Spoken Word Residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Her first film ‘Kokum, with love.’ is created through the NSI Canada IndigiDocs program and produced with the assistance of the CrossCurrents Canada Doc Fund, with support from Netflix.

Kim is a proud mother, a grandmother, a lifelong learner and a spiritual seeker who is passionate about art, new media, Indigenous storytelling and family histories.

Director

Kim Stadfeld

Producer

Kim Stadfeld

Writer

Kim Stadfeld

Cast

Kim Stadfeld, Gayle Pruden, Alfred Pruden

Ticket at Theater Door / Will Call List

Program One

Showtimes

Thursday, March 9
IN-PERSON

Red is Green Carpet: 2:30
Screening: 3:00 to 5:30pm

Q & A with Filmmakers

Venue

Fine Arts Theatre

8556 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90211

Parking

Beverly Hills City Garage
321 S La Cienega Blvd

Before 4pm (2 hours Free)
After 4pm (Free)

Parking at meters:
Free After 6pm (7pm on Wilshire)

Walking Two Worlds

Festival Premiere

DOCUMENTARY SHORT | United States | 29 MINUTES | English

Walking Two Worlds

19 year-old Quannah Chasinghorse, and her mother, Jody Potts-Joseph, take a stand to defend their sacred homelands and way of life while breaking barriers in Indigenous representation.

CAST & CREDITS

Directed by Maia Wikler

Maia Wikler is a freelance journalist and PhD candidate in Political Ecology, based on Vancouver Island. Maia wields storytelling as a tool for justice in the face of corporate abuse and the climate crisis, from reporting on the frontlines of deforestation blockades and Arctic Refuge to the UN Climate Talks.

Director

Maia Wikler

Producer

Maia Wikler, Keri Oberly

Writer

Maia Wikler, Cecilia Brown, Princess Daazhraii Johnson

Editor

Cecilia Brown

Executive Producer

Rob Wassmer, Kaki Orr, Eric Raymond

Cast

Quannah Rose Chasinghorse, Jody Potts-Joseph, Adeline Juneby Potts

Ticket at Theater Door / Will Call List

Program One

Showtimes

Thursday, March 9
IN-PERSON

Red is Green Carpet: 2:30
Screening: 3:00 to 5:30pm

Q & A with Filmmakers

Venue

Fine Arts Theatre

8556 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90211

Parking

Beverly Hills City Garage
321 S La Cienega Blvd

Before 4pm (2 hours Free)
After 4pm (Free)

Parking at meters:
Free After 6pm (7pm on Wilshire)