We hear about an online native film festival that features some Minnesota native creators.
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A film festival for indigenous-made films is now underway.
Vision Maker Media’s First Indigenous Online Film Festival will run through October 5, and features five genre categories with over 30 films.
Some of the films featured include “The Boxers of Brule”, a documentary following a girls boxing team in the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, and “Rustic Oracle”, a dramatic feature about a family searching for a girl who vanished from their small Mohawk community in Canada.
A bit closer to home, one of the films featured is a creation of youth at Nay Ah Shing School of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, and directed by Red Lake Nation band member and artist, Jonathan Thunder. It’s called “Powwow Highway: The Lego Movie”, which is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the film, Powwow Highway.
It’s a stop-animation short produced as part of an animation workshop... youth took on roles of animators, actors, co-directors and set designers.
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The sets are creative, with lego characters driving through various landscapes.
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Vision Maker Media, a Lincoln, Nebraska-based organization, was founded more than 40 years ago with a mission to engage and empower native storytellers to share their voice and stories with the world.
For more information on the film festival, check out visionmakermedia.org. That’s visionmakermedia.o-r-g.