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The American Indian Film Festival is an annual non-profit film festival in San Francisco, California, United States. It is the world's oldest venue dedicated solely to Native American / First Nations films and prepared the way for the 1979 formation of the American Indian Film Institute.
The New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) is an annual film festival that takes place in New York City, and screens films relating to India, the Indian Diaspora, and the work of Indian filmmakers. The festival began in November 2001 and was founded by Aroon Shivdasani and the Indo-American Arts Council.
IAAC was founded on August 1, 1998 by the editor of India Abroad, Gopal Raju, [1] American choreographer Jonathan Hollander and Aroon Shivdasani, to promote the Indian arts to mainstream American media. In 2001, IAAC established The New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) to promote Indian and diaspora-related film in the United States. [2]
The 19th edition Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles has announced an expanded virtual lineup of shorts and narrative and documentary features after canceling 2020’s event due to the pandemic ...
Jonathan Philip Wacks is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.. He has directed a number of films including Powwow Highway, produced by George Harrison.The film won the Sundance Film Festival Filmmaker’s Trophy, was nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards, and won awards for best picture, director, and actor at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco.
The film was the 2009 World Indigenous Film Awards Winner for Best Animation, and received the 2009 American Indian Film Festival Award, Best Animated Short. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It received an award for Best Short Documentary at the 2009 Imagine Native Film + Media Arts Festival, Toronto, and the TEUEIKAN Second Prize at the 2009 First Peoples ...
The 2024 version of NYFF ran from Sept. 27 to Oct. 14 with thousands of cinephiles watching over 100 movies programed by the team at Film at Lincoln Center. The New York Film Festival is set apart ...
Santa Fe Film Festival Award, best screenplay, and American Indian Film Festival Award, 1996, for Grand Avenue; [46] Hugo Award for Best Documentary. American Passages. 2003. [47] Best Reads Award, California Indian Booksellers, 1996; [48] California Indian Writer of the Year from the 15th Annual California Indian Conference. October 2000. [49]