Event
Local Sightings 2023 - Sacred Places: Indigenous Shorts [Hybrid]
Watch in person: Sep. 24 at 7pm
$14 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
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Festival - Local Sightings Film Festival 2023: Short Film Programs
About
(47 min TRT)
Two documentaries show how deeply linked environmental stewardship and family are for their indigenous subjects. Discussions of spirituality, political advocacy, and heritage all flow together in both films, creating a comprehensive call to action to present and future generations of ecological protectors.
Films in this program:
Wy-Kan-Ush-Pum (Salmon People)
(Katie Campbell, WA/OR, 2022, 26 min, in English)
When the salmon are running up the Columbia River, Native people are there with them. They live, eat and sleep at the river. Their children grow up at the river. They catch salmon for subsistence, for ceremonies and for their living. This is the life of the Wy-Kan-Ush-Pum, the Salmon People. It is a life Columbia River tribal people have lived for generations and have fought for decades to protect.
Over the last century and a half, they have watched as restrictions to their access to salmon have rapidly increased. Treaties displaced them from their traditional fishing areas; dams massively reduced the numbers of salmon that swam in the waters; environmental contamination made salmon habitats unviable. And now, as climate change threatens the salmon throughout its life, the stakes of that fight are existential.
Tuhaymani'chi Pal Waniqa (The Water Flows Always)
(Nils Cowan & Gina Milanovich, Seattle, WA, 2023, 20 min, in English, Cahuilla, Ute-Southern Paiute-Chemehuevi with English subtitles)
A father seeks to reconnect his daughter with her indigenous roots and with the ancient springs of the Mojave Desert, just as a new water-mining project threatens their very existence.
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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