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Gather is a 2020 American documentary film about Native American efforts for food sovereignty, [1] directed by Sanjay Rawal and released in 2020. The film follows efforts by various people and groups to reclaim ancestral foodways. It was positively reviewed by critics, and named a Critic's Pick by The New York Times in September 2020.
The Documentary Fund was established at Sundance Institute in 2002 with a gift from the Open Society Institute and is supported by a leadership grant from the Ford Foundation. Documentary Fund grants are announced once a year. In 2016, the institute awarded over $1 million to artists for their documentary projects and global nonfiction ...
Luther studied film work at Columbia College Chicago, and then in Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. In 2000, he accepted an internship at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, where he contributed to the production of the museum's native American Film + Video Festival in 2000 and 2003. [4] [3]
Lakota Nation vs. United States is a 2022 documentary film which explores the 1876 Seizure of the Black Hills and the Indigenous Lakota people's fight to reclaim control of them. It was directed by Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli and Executive Produced by Mark Ruffalo .
It is a place well suited for long walks and that was what Susan Kelsey was doing one day more than three decades ago when she came upon something that would lead her deep into the history of ...
The title of the film was inspired by American Indian Movement (AIM) co-founder Dennis Banks [8] who stated "we have been dodging bullets for generations" [9] which metaphorically infers that Native Americans not only have had to dodge bullets fired from guns, but also the genocide and ethnocide [10] inflected by the colonists since first contact with Europeans.
In 2019, a partnership between The Better Angels Society, the Library of Congress, and the Crimson Lion Foundation announced the creation of the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, an award “to recognize exemplary accomplishment in historical documentaries,” and “to recognize a filmmaker whose documentary uses original research and compelling narrative to tell stories ...
Set in the early 1900s, a Native American boy escapes from a boarding school, and a Cherokee bounty hunter (Wes Studi), who has adopted the white man’s way of life, is sent to find him.