Film Category: 2022

From ESSJ to NYC, the SBC travel across the country, representing dope lyrics and hyphy Bay Area Chicano swagger that pays homage to the birthplace and Mecca of Hip-Hop.

The federal government created boarding schools throughout the nation to assimilate Native American children. This film is about the Rapid City Indian Boarding School (1898-1933). Today, many of Rapid City Native American community are descendants of the children who survived the Rapid City Indian Boarding School. Mortality rates were very high, and the government did… Read more »

A short documentary on the Dene Drum in Gahnı̨hthah (Rabbitkettle).

Ts’oostsitsi is a Blackfoot word used to describe the past. The film profiles Ike Solway and his responsibility to continue storytelling in his family. Ike recounts a powerful experience had by his grandfather. What follows is a story that echoes through generations.

’Strong Hearts’, a short film by actor, writer and director Gary “Litefoot” Davis, is filled with a father’s wisdom and indigenous world view, poetically expressed as a letter to his three sons. The title of the film is inspired by the legendary Oglala Lakota Chief, Crazy Horse. On June 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer’s… Read more »

Cherokee Nation citizen and author Traci Sorell shapes new narratives for Native children and families to see themselves on the page.

When most people think of Native Americans they usually think of the stereotypes that Hollywood has created from a Colonial perspective. Fortunately there’s an alternate universe where Native Americans have not only retained control of our lands but where a pair of Zuni film makers are casting for a special project. They need a “diversity… Read more »

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… Read more »

On a rainy night, Claire discovers why her high school crush Tony’s nickname is The Snake.

MisTik follows Cree twins who carry the last of the healthy trees on their backs in hopes of saving the world they once knew.