In honor of National Native American and Alaska Native Heritage Month, Pickford Film Center and Limelight Theatre will show short films from Sundance Film Festival created by Indigenous filmmakers before all regular films. Plus screenings of all films Nov. 28, 29 & 30. The six shorts are Birds in the Earth (11 minutes), Marja Helander (Sámi); Fainting Spells (10 minutes), Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga Band of Luiseño); Jáaji Approx. (8 minutes), Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga Band of Luiseño); My Father’s Tools (7 minutes), Heather Condo (Mi’gmaq); Throat Singing in Kangirsuk (4 minutes), Eva Kaukai (Inuit) and Manon Chamberland (Inuit), and Shinaab, Part II (8 minutes), Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. (Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians). Ticket Info Here.
A still from “Fainting Spells” by Sky Hopinka, an official selection of the Shorts Program at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute.
“Jáaji” Approx. (8 minutes), by Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga Band of Luiseño), an official selection of the Shorts Program at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute.
A still from “My Father’s Tools” (7 minutes), by Heather Condo (Mi’gmaq), an official selection of the Shorts Program at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute.
“Throat Singing in Kangirsuk” (4 minutes), Eva Kaukai (Inuit) and Manon Chamberland (Inuit) an official selection of the Shorts Program at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute.
Ajuawak Kapashesit appears in “Shinaab, Part II” by Lyle Corbine Jr., an official selection of the Shorts Programs at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Photo by Vaughn Potter, courtesy of Sundance Institute.
Ticket Info Here. CASCADIA is also currently looking for submissions for our 2020 festival! In the past we’ve shown films such as “The Sun at Midnight, “NiiSoTeWak: Two Bodies, One Heart,” and “OchiSkwaCho,” directed by Jules Koostachin, Canada (2018); “Edge of the Knife” directed by Gwaai Edenshaw & Helen Haig-Brown, Canada (2019); and “Muckleshoot Sla-Hal Bone Game,” a documentary feature by Lyn Dennis, USA (2017). We are currently accepting short films through Film Freeway until November 20. For more information about submitting a feature film, contact us at info@cascadiafilmfest.org.