This Is The Way We Rise
Indigenous Creators
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12m
Sundance Film Festival
Centering protests, poetry, and the fight for Indigenous sovereignty, slam poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is heralded as a voice for the next generation of Native Hawaiians as her calling to protect sacred sites atop Mauna Kea, Hawai'i, reinvigorates her art.
USA - 2021 - 12m 16s
Directed By: Ciara Lacey
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Jaaji Approx
Sky Hopinka combines audio recordings of his father with increasingly abstract video images of the landscapes they separately traversed. “Jáaji” is a near translation for directly addressing a father in the Hočak language.
2016 - USA - 7m 40s
Directed By: Sky Hopkina -
Kauri
The Kari trees in New Zealand are dying from ideas created by the encroachment onto their country. Kauri is a moving poem, a warning from Mother Earth to remember the impact society has on other living beings like the trees, oceans, animals, and land.
New Zealand - 2019 - 5m
Dir. Alex Lazarowich... -
Katatjatuuk kangirsumi (Throat singin...
Sundance Film Festival
Through evocative storytelling and breathtaking cinematography, Eva Kaukai and Manon Chamberland share the captivating journey of the Inuk art of throat singing in Kangirsuk across four seasons. KATATJATUUK KANGIRSUMI is a powerful ode to Inuit brilliance and explores trad...
