(Re)Exist In The Present; Imagine The Future – Indigenous Cinemas In Brazil and North America In Times of Extreme Violence

Film screenings, panels, and roundtable conversations featuring Indigenous filmmakers from Brazil and North America. The event will focus on the role of Indigenous female filmmakers in preserving the environment and is sponsored by Brooklyn College Film Department, VMPA, Wolfe Institute, BC Women and Gender Studies, CUNY Graduate Center and The Center for Humanities, Consulate General of Brazil, TUJU.

Program 1:  2:30 Session 

Screenings (60 minutes) :

Poha Re’yi – Familia dos Remedios – Family of Healing (2022, 6 minutes),
Director Joilson Brites, Jhonathan Gomes, Wagner Gomes, Anailson Flores

Horse You See (2010, 7 minutes)
Director: Melissa Henry (Navajo)

Dilyeghan nail taii Tr’eedaa – We Will Walk the Trail of Our Ancestors (6 min)
Director: Princess Daazhrail Johnson with Alisha Carlson

Matanag, A Encantada – The Enchanted (14 minutes)
Director:  Shawara Maxakall e Charles Bicalho (Maxakali)

Mia (8 minutes)
Director:  Amanda Strong, Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Michif)

Roundtable (60 minutes)

Faye Ginsburg (New York University -CMHC – ethnographic filmmaking)

Sueli Mazacali (film director)

Dijana Jelaca (Brooklyn College Film Department – cinema studies professor)

(Reception)

Program 2:  5:30 Session 

Screening  (70 minutes):

Nuhu Yag Mu Yog Ham:  This Land Is Our Land (2021, 70 minutes).
Director:  Sueli Maxacali, Isael Maxakali, Carolina Cangucu, and Roberto Romero (Maxakali)

Roundtable (60 minutes)

Sueli Maxacali, Carolina Cangucu (directors); Marina Bedran (Latin American studies,  Johns Hopkins University); and Juana Suraez (New York University, film studies scholar).