Screening Category: 5p: EMERGING FILMMAKER PROGRAM

Choice Dorm

Sherman Indian High School has a special place for truancy – CHOICE DORM! Chores, yard work, clean up and other duties meant to make you straighten up and fly right! Two students are stuck in the program and must make a choice.

Remember

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.

Epiphany Dream

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.

Spirit Girl

A beautiful and haunting music video about First Nations Missing and Murdered Woman. No one deserves to leave this life that way. It is dedicated to my Auntie Roseanne, who was murdered and thrown into the Bow river

O’odham Su:dag- The People’s Water

Welcome to “O’odham Su:dag – The People’s Water,” a powerful short film by Indigenous Filmmaker Jasmine Lopez; sharing a profoundly personal and eye-opening account of her upbringing on the South Side of Tucson, where access to clean water was scarce, and its profound impact on the Tucson’s low-income community. In this thought-provoking documentary, Jasmine Lopez… Read more »

American Psycho

Theres a new Patrick Bateman in town and she needs to quench her murderous appetite before dinner reservations at Dorsia.

Destiny’s Lines

Destiny wants to represent her people by drawing on chin tattoos, but the non native community around her doesn’t understand.

Stay on the Path

Black-Native sister duo Lindy Vision work on new music for an upcoming album, while struggling to find balance in their home and concert life. Lindy Vision is a local new wave/synth-pop band in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dorothy and Natasha Cuylear make up the Black-Native (Jicarilla Apache) sister-duo band. They are currently anticipating their first album… Read more »

Tell Me About Boarding School Shima Sani

A Documentary short about a Firsthand Boarding School Survivor staring Vera Murphy, out of Crownpoint, NM. She is a first-generation student in her family along with many brothers and sisters. Sharing some her Boarding School Experiences in the New Mexico region. Having a deeper understanding of our past it is important, that we look to… Read more »

Isolation

After her relationship fails, Nabaahii catches Covid-19 and finds herself forced to return to the Navajo Reservation from college.