Film Category: 2023

Native youth learn a valuable lesson about technology and connecting with culture. This production is part of the LA SKINS FEST Native Youth Media Workshop in collaboration with 7 Generations at United American Indian Involvement.

Highs and lows, snapshot tragedy. A look into the life of a man on the edge. 

When Victoria, a young and immature artist, assumes guardianship of her little sister after the death of their mother, she must fend off a mysterious creature during a CPS visit or risk losing her sister forever.

Six Kānaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiians) share their voyages in and out of diaspora. Their collective moʻolelo (story) wades through hope, grief, wisdom, and the effects of the illegal occupation of their homeland. They share the pull they have felt to return to Hawaiʻi and ka ʻāʻumeʻume (the struggle) to stay.

In the heart of downtown Los Angeles (Gabrielino-Tongva land), “Letters to our Ancestors” details how American Indian and Alaska Native organizations are working to preserve and restore Indigenous cultural identity as the foundation of well-being and healthy development. We witness the amazing impact that Indigenous cultural values, customs and traditions have on the next generation… Read more »

It’s 1990. Benny is a Native American boy growing up in San Diego who plays with dolls and listens to Fleetwood Mac. Everything Benny thinks he knows about himself and his family is turned upside down when his parents force him to spend the summer at his Grandma Lorraine’s sheep ranch on the reservation in… Read more »

A twenty something woman is down on her luck. However when her meddling mom signs her up for barber college behind her back, she begins to question if her luck has changed.

An airplane lands. A massive cruise boat anchors off the reef, disgorging tourists for tropical island vacations. This postcard paradise depends on petroleum imports to fuel its cars, motorbikes, boats, hotels, pumps and machinery. Yet if the tourists stopped coming, what then? The film opens with the prophetic words of Niuean artist John Pule and… Read more »

A two-spirit male cruises a hook-up app as he looks for companionship for the night. A welcomed familiar person invites him over as he contemplates his existence, the future and what it means to be who he is in this day in age.

In a world with Zombies, a dysfunctional zombie control task force is the last line of defence. Let by the well-intentioned Captain Chris, his bumbling team is charged with investigating and containing zombie outbreaks.