FEBRUARY 23, 2018
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INCLUSION AND FOCUS ON NATIVE WOMEN IN FILM, PEOPLE OF COLOR AND THE MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM.
12:00PM PST 02/23/2018 by Red Nation Media Staff
Native Women in FILM 9th annual is sponsored by FilmL.A. Inc, SagIndie, Honest Engine Films, and Red Nation Television Network
Native Women in FILM is represented less than another other minority group in media, the annual Native Women in FILM Festival has served as the only spotlight on Native Women in Film & Television, in front of and behind the camera.
The 9th annual Native Women in FILM Festival runs one night this year on February 27th, 2018 held in Beverly Hills at the Laemmle Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre, in keeping Indigenous image in the forefront as we lead up to the Oscars. The Festival is screening one of the most talked about documentaries of the year ‘The Rise & Fall of the Brown Buffalo’ from Award-winning director Phillip Rodriquez and executive producer Benicio del Toro.
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WE ARE DELIBERATE and WE ARE NOT AFRAID RED NATION FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2017 ALL DOC LINE UP FOR NATIVE WOMEN IN FILM
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
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RED NATION FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES NATIVE WOMEN IN FILM SUPPORTING
EMERGING INDIGENOUS WOMEN WRITERS, DIRECTORS AND ACTORS IN HOLLYWOOD
The two day festival in association with Honest Engine Films and supported by Red Nation Celebration Institute® will provide 10 female filmmakers, musicians, and actors with an open door for their voices to be heard in Hollywood.
LOS ANGELES CA – February 7, 2017 – Today Red Nation Film FestivalTM announces all doc line up for Native Women in FILMTM *festival*, Join us as we embark upon this very important transparent conversation, hear from Native Women and allies; Directors. Producers. Actors. Activists. In person Winona LaDuke, Joanelle Romero, Pearl Daniel-Means, Keri Pickett, Shannon Kring, with special guests Max Gail and Ronee Blakley. February 23 @ Laemmle Monica Film Center includes: six screenings starting at 2:30p to 8:45p, Native Women Write Conversation Series (Panel) 9:00p, Red is Green carpet arrivals 6p.
NWIF 2017 Feb. Press Release -3
NATIVE WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION JUNE 21, 2016 P:R
NATIVE WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION BIG SUCCESS at THE INAUGURAL SUMMIT WHITE HOUSE THE UNITED STATE OF WOMEN
WASHINGTON, D.C. – White House United State of Women Summit, nominated, selected and invited were four Native Women of out 10,000 submitted. Joanelle Romero founder and president of Native Women in Film & Television was one of the four personally invited, bringing national attention to “Violence Against Women” on June 14th &15th, in Washington DC.
“Writing the Violence Against Women Act has been one of my proudest accomplishments. And I know that the particular blend of intellectual horsepower and passion in this room today can only mean one thing: Good things will happen. Change is coming.” stated VP Joe Biden at the summit.
“Violence Against Women is so much more to me than just men abusing us,” states Joanelle Romero, “We need to break the glass ceiling with Native Women in Film & Television Initiative, moving forward in the inclusion of Native women on prime-time television NBC, CBS, ABC and FOX. The White House United State of Women was the first of many conversations that will continue in this ground-breaking call to action, lead by Joanelle Romero.”
In listening to Joe Biden, Joanelle Romero was inspired and motivated to act now. She turned to her friend from the National Indigenous Resource Center, Princella RedCorn and asked her, lets partner and make a PSA campaign video right now on uplifting our Native women, seeing that Ms. RedCorn had a video camera and sound equipment.
Joanelle Romero, is not new to the entertainment industry. Her four decade long career includes her nonprofit organization Red Nation Celebration Institute, Red Nation Television Network, Red Nation Film Festival, Native Women in Film & Television, its programs and initiatives. Romero is best known as an actress in the first produced contemporary native woman’s story “A Girl Called Hatter Fox” and creditably acclaimed Award -winning film “Pow Wow Highway” to directing her Award-winning film “American Holocaust: When Its All Over I’ll Still be Indian” landing her in the preliminary round of the Academy’s Documentary Branch shortlist, marking her the only Native Filmmaker this close to Oscar nod. In 2005, Romero won the Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award given to projects that have “the vision to see the truth and the courage to speak it.” Romero has unparalleled success in cementing American Indian image at the forefront of the entertainment industry.
In producing our PSA Campaign, Romero giving faces to the issues of Native Women in Film & Television including Violence Against Native Women and Native Youth Matter created the PSA campaign in hopes to uplift Native Women, Native Youth and our native allies, nationally.
The two-day event was more than a summit; it was a movement to celebrate women and promote gender equality around the world. June 14th & 15th gathering at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center was hosted by first lady Michelle Obama and media mogul Oprah Winfrey. It is being described as the first large scale event of its kind designed to both celebrate advancements in the area of gender equality as well as address issues of inequality.
President Barack Obama stated “This is what a feminist looks like.” to the first Lady Michelle Obama and Oprah having a candid conversation on self-value and self-worth for women.
Speakers included: Nancy Pelosi, Gloria Steinem, Valerie Jarrett, Amy Poehler, Patricia Arquette, Shonda Rhimes, Kerry Washington, Loretta Lynch, Tina Fey and Laverne Cox, Mariska Hargitay, to name a few. In addition fifteen+ more native women showed up as attendees, representing 567 federally recognized tribes.
“We were enthusiastic to bring the voices of Native Women in Film & Television with its initiative to the global conversation on women and girls and the challenges we face together, in our lifetimes,” stated Joanelle Romero in a release that stated the Los Angeles-based founder president had been invited by the White House.
RELATED LINKS:
PSA Campaign The United State of Native Women We are the Change!
PSA: The United State Of Native Women
United State of Native Women: Super Powers 1
The United State of Native Women: Super Power 2
ABOUT THE UNITED STATE OF WOMEN SUMMIT
The first summit was designed to bring together a diverse group of business leaders, academics, activists, nonprofit leaders, elected officials and others to focus on six key areas. These include educational opportunity, health and wellness, economic prosperity, violence against women, civic engagement, leadership and visibility, and entrepreneurship and innovation.
ABOUT NWIF
Native Women in Film & Television, Inc. is a Resource for Native Women’s Rights, is dedicated to promoting equal opportunities for American Indian & Indigenous women, encouraging the creative narrative by native women, exploring and empowering portrayals of women in all forms of global media, expanding empowerment initiatives for native women and girls, in the arts, media, social justice, civic engagement, economic empowerment, research, training and international relations, NWIF serves under its fiscal partner American Indian & Indigenous Arts & Culture non-profit organization Red Nation Celebration Institute (RNCI).
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2016 NATIVE WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION FILM FESTIVAL™ TO OPEN WITH PAYA THE WATER STORY OF THE PAIUTE ***
Documentary exploring the American Indian water wars to open the 3rd Native Women in Film & Television
Los Angeles CA – (February 23, 2016) — Native Women in Film & Television Film Festival (NWIF), presented by Red Nation Film Festival, announced today that the conversional award-winning documentary film Paya The Water Story of the Paiute opens the 3rd annual Native Women in Film & Television Film Festival on Thursday, February 25. Directed by Jenna Cavelle, the documentary looks at America’s longest-lived Water War. From critically-acclaimed films like Chinatown to best-selling books like Cadillac Desert, for the past 100-years, the “LA-Owens Valley Water War” narrative has centered around the viewpoint that LA went out and “stole” Owens Valley’s water. But there is a greater story, an untold story that is rich in history and human achievement, a story that is as much a part of American memory as the creation of our great cities.
“Paya The Water Story of the Paiute documents the history of Paiute Native Americans who constructed and managed 60-miles of intricate irrigation systems in Owens Valley for millennia long before LA secured its largest source of water through modern engineering a century ago. After the Indian War of 1863, surviving Paiute returned to the Valley from the Eastern Sierra and White Mountains to find their ancient waterworks taken over by white settlers,” said Joanelle Romero, founder/president, Native Women in Film & Television, Red Nation Film Festival, and CEO, Red Nation Television Network. “It is an honor to pay tribute to this very important film and native nation.”
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Oscar Nominees All White for Second Year in a Row
No good news for Natives and other minorities
Once again, Hollywood is talking about the lack of diversity in the Oscar nominations. The 20 nominated actors were all white; the group excluded such highly-touted names as Idris Elba, Michael B. Jordan, and Will Smith.
Or is it simply a reiteration that no Native actors were nominated despite their sterling performances in The Revenant. The Academy doesn’t seem to be aware that incredible Native films such as Songs My Brother Taught Me and Mekko, and documentaries “Children of the Arctic,” and “Paya The Water Story of the Paiute,” are winning awards at the prestigious Red Nation Film Festival in Los Angeles.
OSCARS2016 DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE http://www.rednationff.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/oscars2016.pdf
ARCHIVAL PRESS RELEASES 2015
CALL TO ACTION: Stereotypes harm Native women, who have the highest rates of rape and murder in the country, address Adam Sandler’s satirical Western film “The Ridiculous Six” (R6).
ADAM SANDLER’S R6 DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
NATIVE WOMEN VOICES RISE AT THIS YEARS NATIVE WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION {FILM FESTIVAL } FOCUS ON THE CONVERSATION THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN March 19, 2015
ARCHIVAL PRESS RELEASES 2014
INAUGURAL NATIVE WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION FILM FESTIVAL
Honoring Hollywood Royalty
