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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.
Our Fires Still Burn [5] is a one-hour documentary that explores the experiences of contemporary Native Americans through a compilation of first-person narratives ranging from midwestern Native Americans in so-called "Indian boarding schools"—places where Native American children were forcibly boarded for assimilation purposes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—juxtaposed with ...
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.
Sundance Institute’s Documentary Fund will be supporting 23 selected independent documentary film projects this year through grants totaling over $1 million. This initiative has previously ...
The Sundance Institute has unveiled the latest recipients of grants for documentary projects spanning the globe. The 18 projects, all in various stages of development, will split a total of ...
Native New Yorker (2005) is the title of the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary Short [1] by Steve Bilich. [2]Filmed with a 1924 hand-crank Cine-Kodak camera, [3] Shaman Trail Scout 'Coyote' takes a journey which transcends time, from Inwood Park (where the island was traded for beads and booze), down a native trail (now 'Broadway'), into lower Manhattan (sacred burial ground, now ...
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 ...
Serial Maven Studios has given Variety exclusive access to the trailer for Neil Diamond and Joanne Robertson’s “So Surreal: Behind the Masks,” a Native American documentary world premiering ...