Native American Film Series: In the Wake of Justice Delayed (Read More)
Every second Monday evening of each month, Vision Maker Media and The Ross Media Arts Center present free in-person public screenings that feature Native American films by and about Native Americans and Alaska Natives. The Native American Film Series showcases stories about cultural heritage, art, history, music, civic leadership, youth, and more. Q&A sessions enhance each screening. In the Wake of Justice Delayed The American justice system promises a timely resolution for crimes but is failing our Alaska Native families who wait years, and even decades for resolution within our system. Consequently, this leads to general distrust, lower reporting and higher recidivism by perpetrators who are unpunished or rehabilitated and left to run free in the communities where their crimes were committed. This film looks deep within families fighting for justice after a loved one is murdered, with particular attention to systemic historical roots and perpetuation of generational trauma as context and basis for understanding the current epidemic of violence.
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Native American Film Series: Scha’nexw Elhtal’nexw Salmon People: Preserving a Way of Life (Read More)
Every second Monday evening of each month, Vision Maker Media and The Ross Media Arts Center present free in-person public screenings that feature Native American films by and about Native Americans and Alaska Natives. The Native American Film Series showcases stories about cultural heritage, art, history, music, civic leadership, youth, and more. Please verify screening time with the theater. Scha’nexw Elhtal’nexw Salmon People: Preserving a Way of Life is an hour-long documentary inspired by the late Chexanexwh Larry Kinley, a Lummi fisherman and tribal leader who embodied a belief in tribal sovereignty. The film follows two Lummi families fishing for sockeye. As they come to grips with a depleting fishery, Larry asks: “Who Are We Without Salmon?” Celebrating the resilience and adaptive natures of salmon and the people, the film is a reflection on a spiritual life way centered on respect and gratitude for salmon. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Tah-Mahs Ellie Kinley moderated by Patrick O’Meara. Tah-Mahs Ellie Kinley is a commercial fisher who comes from a family where every single generation since time immemorial has harvested the Salish Sea. Additionally, she is President of the Sacred Lands Conservancy, a Native-led non-profit committed to the protection of the Salish Sea; an elected member of Lummi Nations Fisheries and Natural Resource Commission; a former contractor for Lummi Nation’s Sovereignty and Treaty Protection Office; a founding board member of SeaFeast; and a member of the Working Waterfront Coalition. She is an Executive Producer on the feature documentary Resident Orca, the story of the captive orca Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut (Tokitae/Lolita), and is co-author of the bilingual Xwlemi Chosen (Lummi language) / English children’s book Sa’Le Q’ewet Netse’lh / Our Hearts Beat as One. Patrick O’Meara joined Vision Maker Media in 2024 as Cultural Education Director. Prior to Vision Maker Media, Pat served seven years as the Social Studies Teacher Leader for Lincoln Public Schools (NE), directing curriculum and assessment for nearly 200 K-12 social studies teachers and co-teaching the first-year tenure course for new social studies educators. Before his district office role, Pat served twenty-six years as a classroom teacher. Pat holds a bachelor’s degree in history and English and a master’s degree in Historical Studies. At Vision Maker Media, Pat curates’ Indian education programs for VMM’s iNative Shorts for Kids YouTube channel and PBS Learning Media, supporting VMM’s standing as the premier national media source for and about Native Americans. Pat also develops and presents educational sessions at national conferences such as National Indian Education Association, National Educational Television Association, National Council on Social Studies, and research on a new Native media project about Indigenous science.
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Native American Film Series: Coming Round (Read More)
Every second Monday evening of each month, Vision Maker Media and The Ross Media Arts Center present free in-person public screenings that feature Native American films by and about Native Americans and Alaska Natives. The Native American Film Series showcases stories about cultural heritage, art, history, music, civic leadership, youth, and more. Coming Round The spectacular Sonoma pacific coast and the mighty redwood forests are iconic elements of California’s and American identity. And forever intertwined with these inspiring landscapes is the cultural richness of the Native American tribes that have lived for thousands of years along the coastal bluffs and forested waterways. In December 2016, 700 acres of land was returned to the Kashia Pomo Indians from which they had been separated nearly 200 years before. (1 hour, 30 minutes) The film will be followed by a pre-recorded Q&A with J. Mitchell Johnson moderated by Georgiana Lee. J. MITCHELL JOHNSON, Coming Home Co-producer/Director/Writer/Camera Operator/Editor, worked for four-time documentary Academy Award winner Charles Guggenheim after finishing the cinema graduate program at USC. GEORGIANA LEE, a proud member of the Diné (Navajo) tribe, holds a Bachelor’s in Journalism and Theater from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Vision Maker Media: Everything is Connected Online Film Festival (Read More)
Vision Maker Media is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a full year of film programming featuring powerful American Indian and Alaska Native films, both in person at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center in Lincoln and virtually online. The film that screens in person at the Ross will be available for screening online the following month, for the entire month, in addition to other films that explore Indigenous stories, cultures, and perspectives that connect us all. For details on the films currently available to screen, visit the Vison Maker Media film festival website: https://visionmakermedia.org/vision-maker-film-festival-presents-everything-is-connected/
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Native American Film Series: Oyate Woyaka (Read More)
Every second Monday evening of each month, Vision Maker Media and The Ross Media Arts Center present free in-person public screenings that feature Native American films by and about Native Americans and Alaska Natives. The Native American Film Series showcases stories about cultural heritage, art, history, music, civic leadership, youth, and more. Oyate Woyaka tells the story of the Lakota language history, loss and revitalization. The film touches on the deep history and spirituality of the language, the shocking history that caused Lakota to be on the verge of extinction and the modern efforts being made to bring language back to life and the immense challenges this effort faces.
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Native American Film Series: FIRELIGHTERS: FIRE IS MEDICINE with Elizabeth Azzuz (Read More)
Every second Monday evening of each month, Vision Maker Media and The Ross Media Arts Center present free in-person public screenings that feature Native American films by and about Native Americans and Alaska Natives. The Native American Film Series showcases stories about cultural heritage, art, history, music, civic leadership, youth, and more. FIRELIGHTERS: FIRE IS MEDICINE (2024) will be followed by a conversation with Elizabeth Azzuz, who is the board secretary of the Cultural Fire Management Council For centuries, most landscapes in North America were shaped by fire between lightning strikes and Indigenous burns. Indigenous people had deep knowledge of the art of using fire, and still do today. FIRELIGHTERS follows the work of women leaders from the Yurok and Karuk Tribes who are building resources to share indigenous practices and create policies to take back indigenous burning rights. (57 minutes) ELIZABETH AZZUZ (Yurok/Karuk) grew up and lives in the traditional Yurok village of Weitchpec. She is a cultural practitioner, gathering and propagating traditional food and medicine plants. She is the board secretary of the Cultural Fire Management Council, responsible for logistics and permitting. She is an active community member.
