Free screening in honor of Native American Heritage Month!

Winner of the best narrative feature at the 2023 Urbanworld Film Festival, FRYBREAD FACE AND ME follows two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds as they bond during a summer on their grandmother’s Arizona ranch, learning more about their family’s past and about themselves. Produced by Chad Burris and executive produced by Taika Waititi, the film stars Kier Tallman, Charley Hogan, Martin Sensmeier, Kahara Hodges and Sarah Natani. Written and directed by Native American filmmaker Billy Luther of the Navajo, Hopi and Laguna Pueblo tribes, whose other credits include the award-winning documentary MISS NAVAJO and the AMC series DARK WINDS. In English and Navajo with English subtitles.

Screenings are co-presented with Mother Nation and we ask that you support them with a donation this month. You can donate directly to them at their website or in-person at these screenings.

Free ticket reservations will begin one week prior to the film’s showtime. They will help us manage demand and guarantee you a seat, but it is not required.

Part of our Native American Heritage Month series of free screenings. Funding for this screening provided by 4Culture’s Sustained Support grant.

“Writer/director Billy Luther’s warm, tender, and funny debut Frybread Face and Me, which was executive produced by Taika Waititi, explores the humor and joy in finding your footing with family and the strength that comes from embracing your heritage.” Marya E. Gates, RogerEbert.com

Free screening in honor of Native American Heritage Month!

Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis disappeared over two years ago from the Tulalip Indian reservation. Because the investigation is at a standstill, her sisters and other tribal members set off to discover what happened to her. Their quest uncovers a harsh reality: indigenous women are murdered at an alarming rate. Most crimes go unsolved and are committed by non-natives in 2020. Her story exposes how hundreds of indigenous women continue to go missing in the USA, perpetuating trans-generational trauma on Indian reservations. From the filmmaker of THE STATE OF TEXAS VS MELISSA Sabrina Van Tassel. Executive produced by Deborah Parker, activist and the ex-Vice Chairwoman of the Tulalip Tribes. 

“Though viewers may walk away infuriated and angered by the continued cycle of destruction and injustice towards indigenous women, Missing From Fire Trail Road does a great job of explaining the problem. It also shows there will be no lasting solutions until laws and the people in control who perpetuate ongoing colonialism and all the trauma it brings, change. Through it all, however, every woman featured in the film is a force that will inspire, and might even move every member of the film’s audience to take action.” Leslie Combemale, Alliance of Women Film Journalists

Screenings are co-presented with Mother Nation and we ask that you support them with a donation this month. You can donate directly to them at their website or in-person at these screenings.

Free ticket reservations will begin one week prior to the film’s showtime. They will help us manage demand and guarantee you a seat, but it is not required.

Part of our Native American Heritage Month series of free screenings. Funding for this screening provided by 4Culture’s Sustained Support grant.

Free screening in honor of Native American Heritage Month!

Buddy Red Bow (A Martinez) is struggling, in the face of greedy developers, to keep his nation on a Montana Cheyenne Reservation financially solvent and independent. Philbert (Gary Farmer), his easygoing friend, pursues Native wisdom and lore wherever he can find it—even on “Bonanza.” As the two set off on a journey to bail out Buddy’s imprisoned sister, Philbert’s gentle faith challenges Buddy’s hard-edged view of the world, and together they face the realities and dreams of being Cheyenne in the modern-day U.S. Native American spirituality abounds in this bittersweet portrait of two Cheyenne men on a journey through the American West and their own identities.

Screenings are co-presented with Mother Nation and we ask that you support them with a donation this month. You can donate directly to them at their website or in-person at these screenings.

Free ticket reservations will begin one week prior to the film’s showtime. They will help us manage demand and guarantee you a seat, but it is not required.

Part of our Native American Heritage Month series of free screenings. Funding for this screening provided by 4Culture’s Sustained Support grant.

“One of the reasons we go to movies is to meet people we have not met before. It will be a long time before I forget Farmer, who disappears into the Philbert role so completely we almost think he is this simple, openhearted man – until we learn he’s an actor and teacher from near Toronto. It’s one of the most wholly convincing performances I’ve seen.” Roger Ebert

Free screening in honor of Native American Heritage Month!

Conceived by Navajo Nation Museum director Manuelito Wheeler and his wife Jennifer, this version of STAR WARS: EPISODE IV – A NEW HOPE is dubbed in the Navajo language and voiced by nearly 70 Navajo voice actors. It is the first major motion picture ever dubbed into a Native language. In Navajo with English subtitles (obviously!).

PLEASE NOTE: it is based on the “Special Edition” of STAR WARS with the added scenes and CGI.

Screenings are co-presented with Mother Nation and we ask that you support them with a donation this month. You can donate directly to them at their website or in-person at these screenings.

Free ticket reservations will begin one week prior to the film’s showtime. They will help us manage demand and guarantee you a seat, but it is not required.

Part of our Native American Heritage Month series of free screenings. Funding for this screening provided by 4Culture’s Sustained Support grant.