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	Feminist Majority Foundation
		This 1989 video revies the need for safe, legal, and accessible abortion worldwide, highlighting the lack of access to affordable contraception and women's desire to limit their family size.
		The film documents how women have influenced American politics, illustrates how women's lives are improved when women are elected to positions of power, and encourages girls and young women to explore public office.
		As producers of the largest women's film and video festival in the Midwest, film and video festival in the Midwest, WIDC provides support to local, national, and international women artists in the form of opportunities to screen work.
	www.feminist.org /arts/linkfilm.html (903 words)

	XI Latin American Film Festival and Film Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		His own video Tem Que Ser Curioso/ You Have to be Curious from 1996 deals specifically with the introduction of video documentation and the effects it has had on his village.
		This film is unique in that it portrays an important part of Mexico's pre-Hispanic history as seen by an indigenous population, as well as using Nahuatl, the pre-Hispanic language spoken by the Aztecs of the Mexica nation.
		The festival as promised, was one of the best in recent times and brought to the area important people involved with indigenous cultures and film.
	www.duke.edu /web/las/Fall97news/film.html (829 words)

	List of film festivals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Festival International des Films de Femmes - feminist film festival in Créteil
		Native American Film and Video Festival - New York
		Mar del Plata International Film Festival, class A. Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, highly regarded.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_film_festivals (161 words)

	HispanoMundo - Links Latin American Film and Video Sites
		Latin American Film Festival - Washington DC - This festival is organized by the Cultural Foundation of the Americas and the American Film Institute.
		Native American Film and Video Festival, USA - Organized by the Film and Video Center of the National Museum of the American Indian, this biennial international festival features productions in film, video, radio and electronic media about Native peoples of the Americas that are made by Native media makers or reflect Native viewpoints.
		Film Festival - Theme of fest is images and issues for social change, with categories of war and peace; justice and human rights; and the environment.
	www.hispanomundo.com /Films.htm (6615 words)

	Ikpeng leader documents his tribe's struggle : ICT [2007/01/22]
		He stood by a mural presending the festival at the National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center along with Vincent Carelli and Mari Correa, co-producer with Ikpeng, from the Brazilian filmmaking project Video in the Villages/Video nas Aldeias.
		He presented two impressive films, a charming video/letter from the children of his village in central Brazil and a darker record of the Ikpeng people's travails since their first contact with the outside world in 1964.
		Filmed with support of the Brazilian foundation Video in the Villages (Video nas Aldeias) and co-produced by that group's Mari Correa, the video gives the tribe's perspective on the fateful day when the famous Villa-Boas brothers flew overhead in a light plane.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096414375 (1188 words)

	WOMEN MAKE MOVIES \| Beverly R. Singer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Beverly Singer is a Native American of Tewa and Navajo heritage.
		She is a video maker with professional experience as a social worker, college professor and social science researcher.
		"Film and Video Made By Native Americans", the subject of her dissertation outlines a critical and historical examination of Native American film and video makers.
	www.wmm.com /filmCatalog/makers/fm52.shtml (466 words)

	Native American Media Festivals - Video Forum: Native American Edition
		These regularly scheduled festivals of Native American Film and Video provide programmers, librarians and interested patrons with opportunities to see new work coming out of Native American communities, and to keep abreast of the social and political issues concerning Native Americans.
		Each festival screens between 50 and 80 documentaries, short features and animations, introduced by their producers and members of the native communities represented.
		Founded in 1975, the American Indian Film Festival, held in November, is the oldest international film exhibition dedicated to the presentation of Native Americans in cinema.
	www.nvr.org /content.php?pro=native&sec=festival (354 words)

	Current Trends /Chicana/o Film Culture, an excerpt from "The Bronze Screen" by Rosa Linda Fregoso - San Diego ...
		A comprehensive notation of Chicano films, themes, biographies of filmmakers, and critical discourse on films is compiled in the two anthologies on the Chicano film movement, Chicano Cinema, edited by Gary Keller, and Chicanos and Film, edited by Chon Noriega.
		In its embryonic stage, Chicano films could not be defined solely by their contents, that is, in terms of the about, because historically many films dealing with the Chicano experience, produced prior and during the Movement, were inadequate in reflecting "our" experience from "our" perspective.
		This is why the video artist, Salomé España insists (if I may paraphrase) that she speaks, not for the Chicano community, but from the specificity of her experience as a Chicana in L.A..
	www.sdlatinofilm.com /trends6.html (1969 words)

	Young filmmakers shine at Native American Film and Video Festival : ICT [2006/12/27]
		NEW YORK - The recent Native American Film and Video Festival confirmed it: There is a spectacular growth under way in the number of Native filmmakers and the quality of their productions.
		Organized by the Film and Video Center of the National Museum of the American Indian, the 13th Native American Film and Video Festival took place in New York Nov. 30 - Dec. 3.
		The film festival also hosts workshops where the filmmakers can talk about issues and new developments in Native media as well as educational opportunities for young filmmakers to hone their craft.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096414243 (823 words)

	Film Festival Channel - North American Film Festival
		Background: The Nantucket Film Festival (NFF9) has established itself as a premiere U.S. film festival that provides an intimate forum for screenwriters, producers, agents and development executives to interact with and enjoy the notable films presented on the island.
		Background: Showcasing about and by the native Americans, the festival is presented by the Film and Video Center of the National Museum if the American Indian in Harlem.
		Background: The Newark Black Film Festival is known as the longest running fl film festivals in the United States.
	filmfestivalchannel.com /northamerica_N.html (1141 words)

	Film Festivals -- Documentary Film Festival Listings, Announcements, Documentary Film Festival Directories, Films
		Denver Jazz on Film Festival - Won't be a venue for most documentary filmmakers, because this festival only shows films about jazz, but if your film meets that criteria you should get in contact with them.
		This competitive festival is held in May at the Carolina Theatre in Durham, NC, with a submission deadline in late December.
		Billed as the world's first lesbian and gay documentary film festival when it started in 1998, it has continued to host an annual festival dedicated entirely to documentaries that are about, of interest to, or made by queers: transsexual, transgender, bisexual, lesbian or gay.
	www.documentaryfilms.net /festivals.htm (705 words)

	Native American Film Producers - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The American Indian Film Institute (AIFI) is a non-profit media arts center founded in 1979 to foster understanding of the culture, traditions and...
		She partnered with fellow Native American producers Dawn Jackson and Yvonne Russo, and the threesome led...
		American filmmakers and apply it to fostering native film sectors.
	www.native.fajf.com /index.php?k=native-american-film-producers (1160 words)

	MovieMaker Blog » Native American Film & Video Festival
		It’s that time of year again: The time when Americans give thanks—for the lives we lead, the health we have and to the Native Americans who helped the Pilgrims survive that very first winter in the New World.
		The Native American Film & Video Festival, organized by the National Museum of the American Indian, is celebrating its thirteenth year by showcasing more than 125 films from Native American moviemakers, including The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, the newest outing from The Fast Runner directors Norman Cohn and Zacharias Kunuk.
		Elizabeth Weatherford, head of the Film and Video Center at the New York-based museum, praises this year’s roster of moviemakers, saying that their “liveliness and numbers have created a whole new vision of the future of Native film.”
	www.moviemaker.com /blog/?p=110 (279 words)

	Native American Film and Video Festival - Definition, explanation
		The Native American Film and Video Festival is a noncompetitive showcase of film, video and audio productions held biennially in New York City.
		Each festival screens between 50 and 80 documentaries, short features and animations, introduced by their producers and members of the native communities represented.
		Founded in 1979, the Festival is internationally-recognized as the first to feature Native productions from throughout the Americas and the Arctic Circle; indigenous media makers participate from Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico, and the United States (including Hawai’i).
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/n/na/native_american_film_and_video_festival.php (169 words)

	The Columbia Chronicle Online 11/29/99: First nations 6th Annual native American Film & Video Festival
		No matter what developments occur regarding the portrayal of Native Americans in the media, the fact is that Hollywood made over 2000 films on cowboys and Indians since 1913, with most derogatory towards Indians.
		As “Images of Indians” confirms, natives were consistently portrayed as “savage warriors, renegades, vicious murderers, not quite humans, merciless scalpers, in full feather head-dress.” The American Indian Movement called Hollywood “one of the most vicious institutions which has hurt the Indian people...
		Reaction of whites to natives and their beliefs is compared to the reaction in movies of aliens to humans.
	www.ccchronicle.com /back/1999_fall/99nov29/ae3.html (733 words)

	Wired News: Native American Film Fest Embraces New Media
		Native American Film and Video Festival, having found that many vital indigenous voices neglected on film and TV were finding their way out over the audio airwaves.
		Many of the most creative Native American work, she explains, is found outside that medium, especially in the growing and increasingly networked area of Indian radio.
		Of the 400 Native American nations, only about half still speak their own language, and in many of those nations, only a few hundred members do, explains Weatherford, noting that "there is a great sense of impending loss."
	wired-vig.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,8141,00.html (874 words)

	Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival - Schedule of Events
		While being Samoan remains an important part of these Islanders' identity, their experience of urban American life is far removed both from their grandparents lives in the Samoan islands and the dominant myth of the Samoan paradise.
		A short lyrical film exploring the love and sacrifice of a woman raising a son by herself.
		North American natives, a Cree and Ojibwe, are astonished to see how a new-age community in former Czechoslovakia has adopted their traditions.
	www.amnh.org /programs/mead/mead96/calendar.html (764 words)

	Homeland \| Bullfrog Films
		But Native American activists are fighting back, and their inspirational stories are chronicled in "HOMELAND: Four Portraits of Native Action" against the backdrop of some of the country's most spectacular landscapes.
		All of these elements create a clear picture of how the Native Americans' spiritual connection to their homeland and way of life is threatened by unsustainable, harmful practices that affect us all...
		Homeland (Short Version): A shorter version of the inspiring story of four battles in which Native American activists are fighting to preserve their land, sovereignty, and culture.
	www.bullfrogfilms.com /catalog/hland.html (1533 words)

	Film Festival Channel - North American Film Festival
		Background: The Nantucket Film Festival (NFF9) has established itself as a premiere U.S. film festival that provides an intimate forum for screenwriters, producers, agents and development executives to interact with and enjoy the notable films presented on the island.
		Background: The New Orleans Film Festival is dedicated to bringing the best of independent and art house films and videos to an interested and active audience in New Orleans.
		Background: This festival is competitive, we'd like to urge everyone out there to continue supporting all the films shown at this years event.
	www.filmfestivalchannel.com /northamerica_n.html (1185 words)

	A Native Network in New York - November 30, 2006 - The New York Sun
		When Elizabeth Weatherford was asked to organize a film series at the Museum of the American Indian in New York in the summer of 1979, she expected it to be a one-off event.
		In the 27 years since the festival began, the museum has gone through many transitions —— including a name change, when it was incorporated into the Smithsonian Institution in 1989.
		In 2004, the new National Museum of the American Indian opened on the Mall in Washington, to much hoopla and some charges that it was neglecting scholarship and was too focused on celebrating Native American culture, rather than representing it in its complexity.
	www.nysun.com /article/44410 (597 words)

	Rhizome.org: Syracuse International Film & Video Festival 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		One for films and videos produced by kids from 6th to 12th grades.
		To qualify, an artist must be a native of Central New York residing elsewhere, presently reside in Central New York, or have received his/her education there.
		Festival and recognition categories are determined by origin, genre, craft and issues.
	www.rhizome.org /thread.rhiz?thread=14925&page=1&style=print (412 words)

	Homeland - Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival
		We decided to make a film about contemporary Native American life because it was the best way to convey what we were learning.
		Native Americans have been denied some very basic rights and recognition throughout the history of the United States.
		She attended the Homeland screenings at Lincoln Center for the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival and was present for the Q and A. She really enjoyed getting a chance to talk directly with the audience, and would like to do more public speaking about life on Pine Ridge.
	www.hrw.org /iff-00/homelandinterview.html (2767 words)

	About Camera One "Company Background"
		The film went on to win 11 film festivals and has been broadcast on PBS, The Discovery Channel, the BBC, and in eight European countries and Japan.
		Because their filming takes them to some of the most beautiful places in the world, they supply a great deal of footage for broadcast programming and high-end commercials.
		Filming fascinated Gray and he abandoned his graduate studies in geology to pursue a career in documentary film making.
	www.archaeologychannel.org /CameraOne.html (724 words)

	Indigenous Film and Video in Latin America: Resources for Collection Development
		The National Museum of the American Indian Film and Video Center is the best source for information on indigenous film in North America as well as on Latin America.
		The FVC serves both as an archive of indigenous film and a center for their promotion via screenings, sponsoring of festivals and video tours in the U.S. and Mexico (such as the “Eye of the Condor” and “Video Mexico Indígena” tours) and providing networking and publicity for visiting filmmakers.
		Videos listed on their website include three documentaries: Mi Vida al Infinito which tells the story of 115 year old indigenous elder Tayta Ciprian; Del Silencio a la Palabra which discusses the experiences of women in Chirapaq and the Permanent Forum; and Nuestros Cuentos a collection of three traditional children’s stories.
	homepages.nyu.edu /~dd62/cine-indigena.htm (1644 words)

	Southwest Native American Film and Video Festival
		City: Flagstaff, AZ -- Indigenous Action Media, Flagstaff Cultural Partners, and the Museum of Northern Arizona are proud to present the 3rd Annual Southwest Native American Film and Video Festival on Friday and Saturday, July 14 and 15.
		The Southwest Native American Film and Video Festival seeks to provide an opportunity for audiences of all ages to further their understanding of Indigenous cultures today.
		The film focuses on a younger generation of high school and collegiate runners and discusses influences ranging from Olympic dreams to diabetes risk.
	www.azreporter.com /?itemid=845 (956 words)

	Wired News: Native American Film Fest Embraces New Media
		Native American Film and Video Festival, having found that many vital indigenous voices neglected on film and TV were finding their way out over the audio airwaves.
		Many of the most creative Native American work, she explains, is found outside that medium, especially in the growing and increasingly networked area of Indian radio.
		He'd like to see a network of Native-language technologists similar to Native American Public Telecommunications, a PBS-sponsored group of Native American TV and radio broadcasters on whose board May sits.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,8141,00.html (875 words)

	24th Northwest Film & Video Festival: Exhibition Programs
		Performing arts presenters, arts council directors, visual arts center and film society curators across the Northwest and the West Coast will discuss the myriad of issues surrounding the development of new forums and new audiences for independent film and video in rural and urban communities.
		Film and video makers, writers and producers are invited to join the media artists honored during the opening weekend of the Festival for a candid and informative roundtable discussion on independent regional production.
		The Northwest Film Center is pleased to be the administrator of the Fellowship, and tonight we announce the 1998 recipient while saluting the OAC for its continuing support of the media arts community.
	www.nwfilm.org /archives/NWf&V/nwfv24/programs.html (1649 words)

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