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REEL INJUN – Native American Festival – Invite
February 22, 2014 @ 9:00 am to approx. 11:30 am
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Native American Film Fest invites Desert Film Society members as their complimentary guests at a 9:30AM screening.
SPECIAL GUEST: N. Bird Runningwater
Director, Native American and Indigenous Program – Sundance Institute
Born of the Cheyenne and Mescalero Apache peoples, Runningwater was reared on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico. He has overseen the Native Lab of the Institute which has launched projects such as Four Sheets to the Wind, Sikumi, Miss Navajo, Shímásání, and Drunktown’s Finest. Runningwater has also established filmmaker Labs in New Zealand and Australia, which have spawned such projects as The Strength Of Water (New Zealand), Samson And Delilah (Australia), and Bran Nue Dae (Australia).
Before joining Sundance Institute, Runningwater served as executive director of the Fund of the Four Directions, the private philanthropy organization of a Rockefeller family member. He served as program associate in the Ford Foundation’s Media, Arts, and Culture Program, where he built and managed domestic and global funding initiatives. Runningwater currently serves as a patron to the imagineNative Indigenous Film Festival in Toronto.
Currently based in Los Angeles, he is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma with degrees in Journalism and Native American Studies, and he received his Master of Public Affairs degree from the University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.
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REEL INJUN is a documentary about the evolution of the depiction of First Nations people in film, from the silent era to today. Featuring clips from hundreds of films, candid interviews with famous Native and non-Native directors, writers and actors, Reel Injun traces how the image of First Nations people in cinema have influenced the understanding and misunderstanding of their culture and history. Written by N. Diamond, Director
- Writers: Catherine Bainbridge | Neil Diamond | Jeremiah Hayes
- Producers: Catherine Bainbridge | Christina Fon | Linda Ludwick
- Composers: Claude Castonguay | Mona Laviolette
- Cinematographer: Edith Labbe
- Editor: Jeremiah Hayes
- Running time: 85 min
- Country: Canada
- Genre: Documentary
- Trailor: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1484114/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- Official Website: http://www.reelinjunthemovie.com/site/the-film/.