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Women Make Movies present: Queer Indigenous Shorts [In-Person Only]
Wed Nov 22: 7.30pm PDT
Sat Nov 25: 3.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT
Sun Nov 26: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT
Wed Nov 29: 7.30pm PDT
Thu Nov 30: 7.30pm PDT
$14 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
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1h 23m
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(83 min TRT)
Films in this program:
Her Giveaway: A Spiritual Journey with AIDS
(Mona Smith, US, 1988, 21 min)
Carole Lafavor (Ojibwe), activist, mother and registered nurse, is a person with AIDS. In this candid and moving portrait, Lafavor relates how she has come to terms with AIDS by combining her traditional beliefs and healing practices with western medicine. Her Giveaway is more than just basic informationit is an inspiring example of how we can all learn from the Native American philosophy of illness. Produced by Smith (Dakota) for the Minnesota American Indian AIDS Task Force, this film confronts the official invisibility of women, Native Americans and lesbians with AIDS.
Honored by the Moon
(Mona Smith, US, 1990, 15 min)
In this upbeat and empowering film, Native American lesbians and gay men speak of their unique historical and spiritual role. Within the Native American community, homosexuality was traditionally associated with the power to bridge worlds. Interviews with leading activists and personal testimony attest to the positive and painful experiences of being Native and gay. Produced by Smith (Dakota) for the Minnesota American Indian AIDS Task Force to raise issues of homophobia within the Indian community, this ground-breaking documentary is also an important contribution to culturally sensitive discussions of homosexuality. Especially worthwhile. Poetic and thought-provoking. (Library Journal)
Honey Moccasin
(Shelley Niro, Canada, 1998, 47 min)
This all-Native production, by director Shelley Niro (Mohawk), is part of the Smoke Signals new wave of films that examine Native identity in the 1990s. Set on the Grand Pine Indian Reservation, AKA Reservation X, Honey Moccasin combines elements of melodrama, performance art, cable access, and whodunit to question conventions of ethnic and sexual identity as well as film narrative. A comedy/thriller complete with a fashion show and torchy musical numbers, this witty film employs a surreal pastiche of styles to depict the rivalry between bars The Smokin Moccasin and The Inukshuk Cafe, the saga of closeted drag queen/powwow clothing thief Zachary John, and the travails of crusading investigator Honey Moccasin. This irreverent re-appropriation of familiar narrative strategies serves as a provocative spring-board for an investigation of authenticity, cultural identity, and the articulation of modern Native American experience in cinematic language and pop culture.
About Women Make Movies:
We support women producers and directors from the beginning, planting the seeds for a diverse and inclusive filmmaking landscape. As the worlds leading distributor of independent films by and about women, we amplify historically ignored voices and challenge the mainstream media. wmm.com
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Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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