Blending live-action footage and stop-motion animation, My Friend the Green Horse shares the remarkable true story of the childhood of Alanis Obomsawin, one of the world’s great documentary filmmakers. Often feeling lost and alone, the young Alanis found solace and companionship in the Animal World. In her sleeping life, she was visited night after night… Read more »
Screening Category: Sun, Nov 23rd 12:30p-2p Natives in Animation
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A Native American kid scrambles to charge his dying video game console at a bustling intertribal powwow.
Saq Nikté and the Spirit of the Mask
In a forgotten community, an artisan girl puts an old K’iche’ invocation to the test and summons a curious spirit into our world.
Inkwo for When the Starving Return
Two lifetimes from now the world hangs in the balance. Dove, a young, enigmatic, gender-shifting warrior, discovers the gifts and burdens of their Inkwo (medicine) to defend against an army of hungry, ferocious monsters. Dove’s courage, resilience and alliance with the Earth culminates in a battle against these flesh-consuming creatures, who become stronger with each… Read more »