The 2011 Native American Film + Video Festival at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York will bring an indigenous hemisphere together from March 31-April 3, at a free festival that celebrates the diversity and expression of contemporary Native filmmaking.
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PEOPLE: Native filmmakers use eye, experience to winnow entries for Film + Video Festival
Every other year, the Film + Video Festival at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian begins by selecting 100 films, from shorts as long as five minutes each to feature-length films, to screen during the two-day festival.
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In May their Git-Hoan dance group is to perform at NMAI in New York.
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Reaghan Tarbell never set out to be a New Yorker, or a filmmaker, for that matter.
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These highly accomplished elder ladies of Indian Country each have had a special relationship with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Together they represent some of the many American Indian elders for whom the opening of this museum in 2004 represented a watershed moment in American Indian arts, culture and achievement.
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Link Wray and his Ray Men broke into American pop music in 1958 with a loud guitar riff later characterized as the power chord, and a song that made some radio disc jockeys fearful of violence.
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