CineNoche: Sundance Indigenous Film Tour
Wed, Nov 27 @ 7pm
CineNoche, hosted by Cine Las Americas and Violet Crown Cinema, will honor Native American Heritage Month this November with a screening of the 2024 Sundance Indigenous Film Tour. Come watch a mix of documentaries, narratives, and experimental films from Indigenous filmmakers across North America and beyond.
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Sundance Indigenous Film Tour
2024
United States/New Zealand/Canada/Germany
Drama/Documentary
1hr and 23 min
Various languages with English subtitles
Event Details
DATE: Wednesday, November 27, 2024
TIME: 7pm
LOCATION:
Violet Crown Cinema
434 W 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701
Free parking (map + instructions)
COST: $17.50
(Free for CLA members. Contact membership@cinelasamericas.org for more information.)
Synopsis
The 2024 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour is a 83-minute theatrical program featuring eight short films from Indigenous filmmakers from past Sundance Film Festivals. The curated selection reflects a variety of Native stories and showcases inventive, original storytelling from indigenous artists, providing audiences with a glimpse into the present and future of Indigenous cinema.
Program (in order of screening)
Bay of Herons / U.S.A. (Director: Jared James Lank) — Calling on the strength of his ancestors, a young Mi’kmaq man reflects on the pain of bearing witness to the destruction of his homelands. Fiction.
Winding Path / U.S.A. (Directors: Alexandra Lazarowich, Ross Kauffman) — Eastern Shoshone MD-PhD student Jenna Murray spent summers on the Wind River Indian Reservation helping her grandfather anyway she could. When he suddenly dies, she must find a way to heal before realizing her dream of a life in medicine. Nonfiction.
Headdress / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Taietsarón:sere ‘Tai’ Leclaire) — When an act of casual racism confronts a Queer Native man, he retreats into his mind to find the perfect clap back from various versions of his own identity.
Ekbeh / U.S.A. (Director: Mariah Eli Hernandez-Fitch) — While learning to make gumbo, the creator shares personal stories about their grandparents as a way to honor and preserve their Indigenous history and life. Nonfiction.
Baigal Nuur – Lake Baikal / Canada, Germany (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Alisi Telengut) — The formation of Lake Baikal in Siberia is reimagined, featuring the voice of a Buryat woman who can still recall some words in her endangered Buryat language (a Mongolian dialect). Animation.
Hawaiki / New Zealand (Director and Screenwriter: Nova Paul, Producer: Tara Riddell) — At the edge of the playground close to the forest, the children of Okiwi School made a refuge they call Hawaiki. Hawaiki has spiritual and metaphysical connections for Māori as the children create a space for their self-determination. Fiction.
Sunflower Siege Engine / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Sky Hopinka) — Movements of resistance are collapsed and woven together, from reflections of one’s own body in the world today, to documentation of Alcatraz, the reclamation of Cahokia, and the repatriation of the ancestors. Fiction.
Goodnight Irene / U.S.A. (Director: Sterlin Harjo) — Three Seminole patients share some laughs and poignant truths as they wait for treatment at the local Indian hospital. Fiction.
The CineNoche film series is presented in partnership with Violet Crown Cinema. Violet Crown is committed to celebrating and preserving the magic of cinema. From new releases to timeless classics, they present films from across the entire cinematic spectrum to bring extraordinary films to the screen and to the community.
This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.