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Native FilmFest
Agua Caliente Cultural Museum presents the best in films by, about, and starring Native Americans and other Indigenous people
‘TE ATA’ The thought-provoking film, directed by Nathan Frankowski, closes the Native FilmFest on Saturday, March 4.
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he Native FilmFest, held March 2-4, is one of the signature events of the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum, and the nation’s most highly regarded events of its kind featuring the best in films by, about, and starring Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples. This year the festival will showcase enlightening feature films, documentaries, and short films from some of today’s premier Native American and Indigenous filmmakers. Guest programmers are Director Chris Eyre and Dr.
Joely Proudfit will lead Q & A sessions. The festival will start with a vibrant, gripping and immersive documentary series RISE that will take the audience to the frontlines of global Indigenous resistance. With showing this documentary, Agua Caliente Cultural Museum proudly joins the International Museum community that selected a daring theme for this year’s International Museum Day 2017—“Museums and Contested Histories: Saying the Unspeakable
in Museums.” It is the role as a museum to promote peaceful relationships between people. Acceptance of a contested history is the first step in envisioning a shared future under the opportunity of reconciliation. As a museum, they also inspire, engage and encourage audiences in a continued dialogue about challenge, culture, and identity. The last movie, “Te Ata” (TAY’ AH-TAH) is a great example of this. The movie is based on the inspiring, true story of Mary Thompson Fisher, a woman who traversed
cultural barriers to become of one of the greatest Native American performers of all time. The 2017 Native FilmFest presented by the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum will be held at Camelot Theatres located at 2300 East Baristo Road in Palm Springs. Tickets available at the Box Office or online at eventbrite. com/e/native-film-fest-2017: All-access pass are $25; adult single ticket $10; Seniors/military/youth $7. For more information, visit accmuseum. org or call 760-323-0151.