OPENING NIGHT INDUSTRY MIXERNovember 19, 2019 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmAMAZON PRIME VIDEO presents the 13th Annual LA SKINS FEST opening night industry mixer. Enjoy music, food and drinks at Amazon Studios in Culver City. The LA SKINS FEST will celebrate Native American filmmakers, directors, writers, actors and community leaders. During this event, we will also take the opportunity to thank our network, studio, tribal... Read more »See Details
Wednesday, November 20
8th Annual Pitch Fest and Staged ReadingNovember 20, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 11:00 pmWe will conduct the 8th Annual Native Writers Pitch Fest during the LA SKINS FEST. The pitch fest allows Native American writers to pitch their scripts, projects and themselves to several network and studio development executives, managers, and agents. The pitch fest will consist of three components that enhance the participant’s writing career. The first... Read more »See Details
Thursday, November 21
Native American Actors Panel – RecapNovember 21, 2019 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmThe LA Skins Fest hosted a free panel discussion with several prestigious Native American actors. The panel focus on the auditioning process, breaking into the industry and gaining talent representation. Panelists include Tantoo Cardinal, Zahn McClarnon, Sivan Alyra Rose, Amber Midthunder and Martin Sensmeier. The panel was moderated by Cara Jade Myers. The Native American... Read more »See Details
Friday, November 22
8p - 10p: Friday Night Screening
ScreeningCHICKENSNovember 22, 2019 @ 8:00 pm - 11:30 pmTwo racist cops try to cover up killing an unarmed black teen. Things don’t go as planned…See Details
ScreeningBlackwaterNovember 22, 2019 @ 8:00 pm - 11:30 pmBlackwater follows the story of Birdie Blackwater. A washed up Native American country singer from the reservation who found stardom and fame at an early age. Now on her last leg career wise, and having burnt every bridge across America, Birdie finds herself alone and broke returning to her home land trying to cope with... Read more »See Details
ScreeningPRAYERS of a SAINTNovember 22, 2019 @ 8:00 pm - 11:30 pmA small town girl escapes her abusive home in the hopes of something better than the life she and her mother have been trapped in. She heads for California where anything seems possible… but along the way discovers the world isn’t as welcoming as she had imagined. Her courage and will to survive are tested... Read more »See Details
ScreeningRunning ShadowNovember 22, 2019 @ 8:00 pm - 11:30 pmA young Lakota woman dreams of running competitively outside the Reservation, but with broken shoes and no real track to practice on, her chances seem slim. Even with the best shoes, she’s haunted by the guilt that she couldn’t run fast enough to save her sister from suicide. Those traumatic memories stop her from running... Read more »See Details
ScreeningGently, JenniferNovember 22, 2019 @ 8:00 pm - 11:30 pmWhen Jennifer and Madison sneak a peek at a porn collection, a model stirs a deep desire in Jennifer.See Details
ScreeningDoukNovember 22, 2019 @ 8:00 pmA Native American family confronts the harsh reality of being split apart from their daughters.See Details
8P: Opening Night Screening
ScreeningYour Name Isn’t EnglishNovember 22, 2019 @ 8:00 pmAs drivers struggle to pronounce her name, a Native American passenger offers history lessons from the backseat. Its a lesson in American history they won’t forget.See Details
Saturday, November 23
9a -10a: Health In Indian Country
ScreeningAnother Scar of Genocide: Diabetes DocNovember 23, 2019 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 amTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapThis project is a documentary designed to bring awareness to the epidemic of diabetes throughout Indian Country. Fashion designer Darlene Perkins of Red Lightning Couture uses her fashion shows as a vehicle to bring awareness to this serious Indigenou health crisis. Her new found Indigenous celebrity alliances join her to raise awareness.See Details
10a- 12pm: Natives in Animation Program
ScreeningGiant BearNovember 23, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapA timeless Inuit legend about a solitary man, a giant bear and their daunting foes: each other. Centered on a confrontation between the last monster bear and an Inuit hunter, Giant Bear is a chilling short that brings an ancient story out of the North. In Giant Bear, we follow a hunter in the depths... Read more »See Details
ScreeningMeowibuNovember 23, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapMeowibu is a favorite local beach for surfers including a native American Chumash fisherman spirit. Surf’s up so two kittens called the tantum twins phone their friend, Hot Catter, to drive to Meowibu. Surfing is great, but then the Tantum Twins are ‘snaked’ by Drench. His favorite pass time is stealing waves from other surfers.... Read more »See Details
ScreeningInjunuity: The Source of the WoundNovember 23, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapUsing a unique blend of animation, music and real voices, The Source of the Wound explores the issue of historical trauma through the Native American boarding school experience. Featuring the voices of Helen Waukazoo (Navajo/Diné) and Ramona Beltran (Yaqui/Mexica).See Details
ScreeningEagle FeatherNovember 23, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapEagle Feather is an animated, feature length, family friendly story about Elizabeth, a young American Indian girl, and her single father as they journey into the wilderness early one morning to search for her first ceremonial eagle feather. On their way home father and daughter find a wounded eagle and in an effort to rescue... Read more »See Details
12p - 1pm: Native Youth Films Program
ScreeningCultural ShockNovember 23, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapNative youth fall victim to a zombie attack and have to escape a building full of undead. They discover the cure to the sickness infecting everyone and offer a cultural key.See Details
ScreeningCrow Agency Water DocumentaryNovember 23, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapThe Crow Agency in Montana has been battling the pollution of their river for years as local ranchers and farmers dump harmful fertilizers. Crow youth speak with experts on the destruction of their main water supply and how they can save it.See Details
ScreeningMissing Murdered Indigenous WomenNovember 23, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapStudents from the Fort Washakie High School explore the importance of protection of Native American women. They speak with activists and discuss measures that combat this destructive epidemic.See Details
ScreeningCrow Water DetectivesNovember 23, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapCrow youth investigate the pollution of their main water supply from local ranchers. Once they uncover the source of the problem they take it to the media to get justice.See Details
1p - 2p: Road to Wellness Program
ScreeningTiwahe Tour De Ute – A Journey To WellnessNovember 23, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapThe Ute Mountain Ute Tribe address their lack of housing, health concerns and cultural strengthening through a dynamic and far reaching federal program called Tiwahe. Tiwahe, or family in Lakota, created a renewed energy to uplift the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe in Towaoc, CO.See Details
2p- 4pm: Native Shorts Narratives Program 1
ScreeningMolokaʻi BoundNovember 23, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapA wayward young man, recently released from prison, struggles to reconnect with his son and Hawaiian heritage. https://22bet-hu.org/ – Kaszinó- és sportfogadás egy helyenSee Details
ScreeningCandyfaceNovember 23, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapIn June of 2018… Due to the widespread destruction of sugar cane fields, The Hershey Foods Corporation closed it’s biggest candy production facility. All other candy companies followed suit. Candy became scarce worldwide, but the desire for candy consumption rose to unprecedented levels. Increase of criminals skyrocketed, & candy production was now in the hands... Read more »See Details
ScreeningPolar TourNovember 23, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapThree university friends embark on an adventure they hope never to forget. They choose an exotic location in the Arctic to go polar bear seeing for their Spring Break. In the middle of their first tour, the engine of the rover breaks down. Now isolated and freezing in the dark, they wait for rescue. With... Read more »See Details
ScreeningThis Is Who I AmNovember 23, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapA young Anishinaabe woman struggles with her identity in the big city. Though at first she finds it difficult to express herself, after a short series of events, she realizes can still be Native while in a city. In fact, it’s her responsibility to herself, her ancestors and Creation. With this realization, she finds her... Read more »See Details
ScreeningThe Coyote Way: Going BackNovember 23, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pmThe Coyote Way: (Going) Back Home is a short sci‐fi/docu-narritive film about a young boy named Charlie, who must make a life changing decision to join a Native street gang or begin an epic pilgrimage that will reveal the truth of his existence.See Details
ScreeningThe Love Of TwoNovember 23, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapDavid gets a call about Ruth being in the hospital. He remembers the first time he met her. It’s the morning after the pow wow and Ruth and David share a breakfast and notice there is a spark.See Details
4p - 6p : Native Short Doc Program
ScreeningRiver WomanNovember 23, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapA short documentary on the healing power of art and Native traditions. Following Chris Stark, an Ojibwe artist and speaker in Minneapolis, the documentary explores her journey with her healing and how she uses her art to grow.See Details
ScreeningIIKAAKIIMAATNovember 23, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapIKAAKIIMAAT is a short documentary focusing on the life and work of Blackfoot and Dene artist, Lauren Crazybull. The film provides viewers with a personal story of resiliency in the face of colonial violence, as well as celebrates the brilliance of a young artist. https://www.silvera.lt/auskarai/auksiniai-auskarai auksiniai auskarai – tai ne tik papuošalai, bet ir jūsų... Read more »See Details
ScreeningYakonnhéhkwenNovember 23, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapTwo years ago, while I was mid-production of my film “Yakonnhéhkwen (It Sustains Her)” a student who I was teaching in Six Nations, ON committed suicide. Touched by this event, it informed the narrative of “Yakonnhéhkwen” placing a stronger focus on mental health and suicide. I wanted to create space to engage this discourse and... Read more »See Details
ScreeningHidden VoicesNovember 23, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028Andrew Lown sets out on a journey to connect with his Indigenous heritage through his grandmother’s unspoken past.See Details
ScreeningCedar Tree of LifeNovember 23, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapThree Indigenous women hold knowledge of Cedar, passed down from their grandmothers and mothers. They commune with this sacred tree as they practice and share their culture and art in both traditional and contemporary contexts. Cedar is a life-giver. Cedar is a transformer. Cedar Tree of Life reveals how each woman uses the material/medicine of... Read more »See Details
ScreeningProtect Our LandNovember 23, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapNative American voices and perspectives are often missing when discussing issues that impact Native land. To fight this invisibility of Native peoples, Paramount Network partnered with IllumiNative to share the story of the Fort Belknap Indian Community’s fight against the pipeline that threatens their land, water, and culture. The tribe, along with the Native American... Read more »See Details
6p - 8p : Natives in the Military
ScreeningHae HawaiʻiNovember 23, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapAfter the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, loyalists to the crown protect what is left of their dissolving kingdom. They recruit a young thief to safeguard the unifying symbol of the people.See Details
ScreeningRed SnowNovember 23, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapDylan, a Gwich’in soldier from the Canadian Arctic, is caught in an ambush in Kandahar, Afghanistan. His capture and interrogation by a Taliban Commander releases a cache of memories connected to the love and death of his Inuit cousin, Asana, and binds him closer to a Pashtun family as they escape across treacherous landscapes and... Read more »See Details
Celebrate Natives in Film, TV, and New Media Award Ceremony RecapNovember 23, 2019 @ 8:01 pm - 11:30 pmThe 13th Annual LA SKINS FEST celebrated the annual Native American Media Awards, with hosts by the world renowned Q’orianka Kilcher and Kiowa Gordon, at the iconic Hard Rock in Hollywood. Since 2013, the LA SKINS FEST has honored talented, innovative and outstanding Native American artists who have shown a unique and strong voice in... Read more »See Details
Sunday, November 24
9a- 10a: Natives in Horror
ScreeningCinema Red: Natives & HorrorNovember 24, 2019 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 amTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapOver the course of four months, urban Native horror director Mike J. Marin met with nine Native artists to discuss their opinions on the horror cinema and the horror genre and what role Native people play in the horror filmmaking process.See Details
10a - 12p: Movies From the Rez
ScreeningHey CuzzinNovember 24, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapHey Cuzzin is a look at the lives of Indigenous cousins on and off the rez. The cultural connection we have with one another and how close we are. It’s a comedic look at how we interact and the antics cousins get into.See Details
ScreeningMallard’s RoadNovember 24, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapRolly Lamoreaux, a young Lakota man living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota just can’t seem to find true love. Constance Talking Crow, an urban Lakota woman living in New York City and struggling with her identity returns to the reservation. Mary Flys at Night is a young widow trying to raise... Read more »See Details
ScreeningThe ThirdNovember 24, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapThis is the Director’s Cut of The Third. A short version is available online, but this is not. Lindy Waters III is a basketball standout playing for Oklahoma State University. As a Cherokee and Kiowa ball player, Lindy takes pride in being a role model for young Native American players.See Details
ScreeningDecade of DominanceNovember 24, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapDecade of Dominance- The Warriors, a documentary chronicling the San Pasqual Valley High School Football team, the Warriors, and their quest for football dominance during 1970’s. San Pasqual Valley High School is located within the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation in Southern California and is the only high school from within a Native American reservation to... Read more »See Details
2p - 4pm: Stories From Indian Country
ScreeningᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ ᏭᎵᏍᎨᏗᏴ LANGUAGE IS EVERYTHINGNovember 24, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapLike the languages of so many indigenous people, the Cherokee language is suffering . This short documentary tells the story of that loss, through the life story of pre-eminent Cherokee linguist Durbin Feeling.See Details
ScreeningNîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand UpNovember 24, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapOn August 9, 2016, 22-year-old Colten Boushie from Red Pheasant First Nation was shot and killed after he and his friends, driving a car with a flat tire, stopped in an occupied farm-yard. Two days later, farmer Gerald Stanley was charged with second-degree murder. Part investigation, part soul-searching, We Will Stand Up is director Tasha... Read more »See Details
4p - 6p: Women Leads
ScreeningWokeNovember 24, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapWoke tells the story of a racially mixed, outspoken actress in New York City who’s constantly being told “no” and so she offers herself a “yes”. It’s an exploration of race, culture, art, and self-expression rooted in authentic experiences Erotische Massage Deutschland.See Details
ScreeningBride +1November 24, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapA 39 year old Latino woman who has never been married and wants to have children, plans her wedding even though she has no groom- yet!See Details
6p- 8pm: Narratives From Native America
ScreeningTotemsNovember 24, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapA post-apocalyptic film about two Indigenous men existing in the aftermath of colonial America. When their spouses kick them out, making them homeless in 2019 Seattle. Just like in the old days.See Details
ScreeningThe Last BeyondNovember 24, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapAn intimate western set during the Great Depression, THE LAST BEYOND is the love story and spiritual journey of Stratton and Gracie, whose lives meet as everything around them falls apart. Living in the wilds of Montana with newfound friends Joe Running Elk and his grandfather Flying Bear, they begin to become whole again. When... Read more »See Details
ScreeningLook TwiceNovember 24, 2019 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapA night surveillance security guard spots a trespasser on the property; then regrets grabbing their attention once he realizes the intruder is paranormal.See Details
ScreeningD.I.YNovember 24, 2019 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapAdam, a Stoney skateboarder who’s from the prairies, has been living on the unceded Coast Salish territories for some time now and feels a longing of home. To get out of his head, he goes to the skatepark. Joe, a Cree man also living on the coast, happens to come upon the skatepark that Adam... Read more »See Details
ScreeningTHE DIVISIBLENovember 24, 2019 @ 10:00 pm - 11:30 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapAs a newly elected Commander-in-Chief steps into office, things quickly begin to spiral out of control. He wages a policy war against many of the rights & freedoms that have protected the marginalized citizens of the United States. His flippant decisions and social mockery negatively impact our foreign relations. All of this causes a bubbling... Read more »See Details
ScreeningBroken RecordsNovember 24, 2019 @ 10:00 pm - 11:30 pmWhen Archie wins big and decides to throw a big old rez party, Sophia, his daughter tries to escape the cycles of her reality through television, but too soon her fantasy and her reality collide. your eyes never get tired of the hot milfs from site nude-milf.top where sexy women delight with their bodiesSee Details
ScreeningRenegadeNovember 24, 2019 @ 10:00 pm - 11:30 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapKai Denison, a City Native American, has had a troubled life and years of abuse and depression. He feels like as if everyone around him has a purpose except for him, until he begins having strange dreams about his hometown being destroyed by a mysterious figure carrying a virus. With the help of an old... Read more »See Details
ScreeningVisions Of A Kill ShotNovember 24, 2019 @ 10:00 pm - 11:30 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapVISIONS OF A KILL SHOT is a coming of age story about a young handball player, Danny, who in his prime is tragically affected by an event from his childhood. Relentless fear of the unknown forces Danny to make a big decision in his life. Yet, with a strong yearning to do what is right,... Read more »See Details
ScreeningA Night OutNovember 24, 2019 @ 10:00 pm - 11:30 pmTCL Chinese Theatre #66925 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood,90028+ Google MapThe story follows a slacker named Jared as he pressures his younger cousin Tommy to come with him to a Rez party. Jared sells it as a night out for the boys but really wants to run into his ex girlfriend, Nance. Life doesn’t stand still and the night doesn’t go as planned. It soon... Read more »See Details