“The Past is not dead; it’s not even passed”
DIRECTED BY
henrietta manN & campbell dalglish
WRITTEN BY
henrietta manN, campbell dalglish & ÀLEX LORA
EDITORS
ÀLEX LORA, KLENIMBER TORRES, FEDERICO GUARASCIO
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Niav Conty, Campbell Dalglish, Uladzimir Taukachou
ORIGINAL SCORE
Sage Brantley
(Writer, Film Critic, Director, Producer) – Founding Director of D’Arc Productions (www.darcproductions.net), award winning playwright, screenwriter and director. His latest award winning short film, “Road Kill,” has been screened internationally in over two dozen film festivals. His short “Dance of the Quantum Cats” won international awards and was selected by CINE to represent USA at the 12th International Film Festival of Peace, Hiroshima, JAPAN. It was broadcast on PBS/CPTV in a series on emerging directors. His award winning screenplays include “Charade of a Fly,” “The Commune,” “Bruises,” and “Woman Unburied.” In documentary he has co-produced over a dozen segments for broadcast TV, including multiple segments on American Indian reservations, broadcast on The New Morning Show (the Hallmark Channel). Eco Action is an environmental news magazine “Ahalani: Living In Harmony With The Sun.” His award winning plays include “The List,” “Green Fire” and “Split.” He has also written the original rock musical “Skins of the Money Drum” and the Richard Rogers notation award for his opera “Blue Mass” with composer Robert Elha performed at the Yale University Theatre and Sprague Hall. He earned his MFA on a fellowship at Yale School of Drama and is currently a tenured professor of film at City College of New York. He is co-founder and President of the Plaza Cinema and Media Arts Center, written over a hundred critical film reviews for the Long Island Advance, and is a Film Commissioner for Suffolk County.
Website:https://darcproductions.net
(Cheyenne, b. 1934) is a Native American academic and activist. She was one of the designers of the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Montana and Haskell Indian Nations University‘s Native American studies programs. In 2000 she became the first American Indian to hold the endowed chair of Native American studies at Montana State University and was honored with the Montana Governor’s Humanities Award. As an elected board member for the Tribal Council, she was one of the authors of the federal legislation which resulted in a $15 million judgment from the US government in favor of her tribe in 1967 as part of the settlements of the Indian Claims Commission. She advocated for the creation of Native American studies programs to develop not only self-awareness, but to allow American Indians to be empowered with self-determination.[4] She was the “founding president of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal college.She was the first American Indian woman to hold the position of director of Indian education programs and was was selected by the American Indian Heritage Foundation in Washington, D. C., as Indian Woman of the Year for 1987. In 1991 she was featured in Rolling Stone as one of the top ten professors in the United States. She served as one of the trustees who guided the Smithsonian’sNational Museum of the American Indian, which opened in 2004.[3] In 2008, she was honored by the National Indian Education Association with a lifetime achievement award and in 2016, she became one of only two American Indians elected to the National Academy of Education. She is the narrator, Executive Producer and co-writer for the feature length documentary, “Savage Land.”
is an anthropologist and educational consultant, with Native American Studies as his area of specialization. He began his ethnographic fieldwork among Native Americans in 1980 while a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to his work with children, Robert has also taught courses and workshops for teachers through SCOPE and Teacher Centers throughout Long Island. He has served as an instructor for courses taught at SUNY Stony Brook, SUNY Farmingdale, Southampton College, and the University of Oklahoma. His adult and children’s travel programs have taken participants for cultural immersion experiences in Native cultures throughout Indian Country, including New York (Iroquois/Haudenosaunee), Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota and Wisconsin. These programs have been featured in: the New York Times, Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Newsday, Child Magazine, McCall’s, NBC’s Today Show, and the Travel Channel’s Lonely Planet series. Along with his adopted Kiowa uncle Richard Tartsah Sr., he is author of the book Big Bow: The Spiritual Life and Teachings of a Kiowa Family.
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