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| Before Tomorrow - Opening Night Film |
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Opening night kicks off at 6:30 p.m. with northern style drum group world champions Midnite Express, followed by a talk by Clyde Bellecourt, longtime activist and advocate for American Indian rights and co-founder of the American Indian Movement.
Set in the mid-nineteenth century, Before Tomorrow, based on well-known Danish novelist Jorn Riels book For Morgendagen, tells the story of transition and transformation as a small, remote Inuit community is changed forever by its first contact with white explorers, people about whom they had only heard rumors. Ultimately, the film depicts the physical and spiritual struggles of Ningiuq, a strong woman elder, and her beloved grandson, Maniq, as they find themselves isolated and alone, thinking they are the last people of their kind on earth. In addition to winning Best Canadian First Feature Award at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, Before Tomorrow was also recognized as best film at the 2008 American Indian Film Festival. It also was an official selection at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
Director: Marie-Helene Cousineau and Madeline Piujuq Ivalu
Country: Canada (2008)
Language: Inukitut w/English subtitles
Running time: 93 minutes
Immediately following Before Tomorrow we'll be screening Native Nations: Standing Together For Civil Rights with co-producer Syd Beane who'll be on hand to introduce the film.
Co-produced by Minnesota filmmaker and community organizer Syd Beane (Mdewakanton Dakota/Flandreau Santee Sioux), along with Frank Blythe and Michelle Danforth, Native Nations, narrated by Peter Coyote, chronicles the American Indians struggle for civil rights, and the creation of the National Indian Lutheran Board to raise funds and awareness for that struggle. From the 1862 controversy when 38 Dakota Sioux were executed in the largest single-day mass hanging in the United States to the confrontations of the 1960s, when many Indian tribes joined together to speak out with a unified voice, the story told by Native Nations is the story of standing together for sovereignty, justice and civil rights.
Writer/Director: Michelle Danforth
Country: US (2008)
Language: English
Running Time: 60 minutes
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