Native Crossroads Film Festival

02/19/2024

Native Crossroads and OU Film and Media Studies are partnering with Simon Fraser University in Canada in hosting two online Webinar roundtable events that explore the labor, activism, and creativity of Indigenous women and nonbinary folks in the field of Indigenous digital media.

The first of these two webinars - Gender and Indigenous Gaming - brings together four experts in Indigenous gaming and interactive design, namely Meagan Byrne (Métis), Miranda Due (Pawnee/Cherokee), Dr. Wendi Sierra (Oneida Nation), and Marisa Erven (Coquille). Moderated by Dr. David Gaertner (Institute of Critical Indigenous Studies, University of British Columbia).

The webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, February 21st, 2024 (5:00pm CST) and will be approximately 60-75 minutes.

Here is the Zoom link for the webinar:

https://sfu.zoom.us/j/89818401551?pwd=0rxioGnhOxuG6pQwLtgYRaKieW4cEg.A4a24aSSt34LF7Wp

We hope you can attend!

11/22/2023

Native Crossroads would like to send a heartfelt thank you to filmmaker and showrunner Sterlin Harjo and all who attended his student workshop and Reservation Dogs screening last week! The events were a huge success - many students from FMS and other departments as well as supporters from all over Oklahoma were able to meet, greet, and learn from one of today's most prominent Indigenous creators! We hope everyone enjoyed the experience!

FMS would also like to acknowledge OU Film and Media Studies, OU Native American Studies, and the Ga***rd College for their contributions with the events. We would also like to give special thanks to FMS professors Andy Horton, PhD (professor emeritus), and Joanna Hearne, PhD, for moderating the student workshop and post-screening Q&A, respectively!

11/06/2023

Native Crossroads would like you to join in for a free screening of "Dig" (the season 3 finale of the award-winning series Reservation Dogs) and an extended Q&A with the series' showrunner Sterlin Harjo on Thursday, November 16th. Reception will begin at 6pm, followed by the screening at 6:30pm in the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation Auditorium (Ga***rd 1140).

Sterlin Harjo, a citizen of the Seminole Nation with Muscogee heritage, is a writer, director, and producer of film and television whose extraordinary achievements include appointment to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Variety Showrunner Award. His outstanding contributions to film and television arts include the hit television series Reservation Dogs, which Harjo wrote and produced, with awards in 2022-23 including two AFI Awards, two Independent Spirit Awards, a Gotham Independent Film Award, a Peabody Award, and more. Harjo has also directed three feature films (Four Sheets to the Wind, Barking Water, Mekko) and two feature documentaries (This May Be the Last Time, Love and Fury), and directed many episodes for television. He is a founding member of the Native American comedy troupe The 1491s.

This event is a presentation of OU Film and Media Studies, OU Native American Studies, the Ga***rd College, and Native Crossroads Film Festival.

To learn more about Sterlin's work, please visit his official IMDb page:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1802161/

04/12/2023

Native Crossroads and OU Film and Media Studies would like to invite you to a series of screenings and events next week with legendary Hopi filmmaker Victor Masayesva, Jr.! See the different events below:

SCREENING: Waaki (Sanctuary) (2019) followed by director Q&A
Tuesday, April 18th, 7:00pm
The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation Auditorium (Ga***rd Hall Room 1140)

Waaki looks deeper at the Creation stories of the Hopi, Nahua, and Maya and their special connection to maize/corn. The film celebrates the human capacity for tolerance and compassion.

DEMO SCREENING: Indigenous Calendars: a works-in-progress demo screening and discussion of an Indigenous planetarium show
Wednesday, April 19th, 10:30am - 11:30am
Wallace Old Science Hall Room 324

This screening of the short demo "Indian Time," about Otomi star stories, offers a chance to discuss the transit of Indigenous knowledges to immersive technological platforms such as planetarium domes and virtual reality (VR).

SCREENING: Pensoyungkum: People with the Pencil followed by director Q&A
Wednesday, April 19th, 6:00pm
Native Nations Center (Copeland Hall Room 233)

Pensoyungkam is the story of Hopi men imprisoned on Alcatraz island, but with a keen eye and a measured erudition as to how we receive and translate history.

03/21/2023

Native Crossroads and OU Film and Media Studies cordially invite you to join us for an upcoming talk with Kansas State University Professor of English, Dr. Lisa Tatonetti. This talk considers the ways the body functions as a form of felt theory in two Indigenous documentary films: Trick or Treat? (2014), and Apache 8: Facing Fire is Just the Beginning (2011).

The talk will take place THIS THURSDAY (March, 23rd) at 1:30pm in Dale Hall Tower, Room 906.

Dr. Tatonetti will discuss how these seemingly different documentaries can foster similar understandings: in each, Indigenous people deploy their bodies as affective models of protection through which Indigenous pasts, presents, and futures coalesce to foster sovereignty and community wellbeing.

11/28/2022

Come see the first of the LASI Film Series this Tuesday (11/29) with Daughter of the Lake (Hija de la Laguna)! This award-winning documentary covers the survival of the native communities and their environment under the expansion of mining in the Andes. The film's director, Ernesto "Tito" Cabellos, will be on hand via Zoom for a special Q&A session!

The documentary will screen TOMORROW (Tuesday, November 29th) at 4:00pm at the Sam Noble Museum!

The film is brought to you by the University of Oklahoma Latin America Sustainability Initiative and Native Crossroads, and is sponsored by the David L. Boren College of International Studies Center for the Americas, the OU Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, and OU Film and Media Studies.

For more information on the film, please visit it's official IMDb page:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4537412/reference/

11/08/2022

Hello, everyone! Native Crossroads is back, and we would like to invite you to a screening of 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘮 (2019) - the final film directed by the late Jeff Barnaby! The event will take place TOMORROW (Wednesday) at 7:00PM on 2221 Exchange Ave. in Oklahoma City! We would like to acknowledge and thank Rodeo Cinema for sponsoring the event!

There will be a Q&A session after the screening with Reel Indigenous Podcast host Angela Startz and OU Film and Media Studies professor Joanna Herne, Ph.D.! We look forward to seeing you there as well!

Individual tickets for the event are $10. You can purchase tickets here:

https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=358768~a5c48fd2-4ebd-4471-9a47-a22201571c2b&epguid=8fc41629-12d7-4ac9-976d-3cb7e44f8d28&

We would also like to thank Sunrise Tippeconnie for the work he has done in curating our event!

04/01/2022

There's rain in the forecast, but it'll be warm and dry at Pioneer Library System for tonight's free screening! Come see Loren Kasey Waters' short "Restoring Néške'emāne" and Zoe Hopkins' "Run Woman Run" at 7pm at the Norman Central Library!

03/31/2022

This film is FUNNY! And FREE! Please share and help get the word out about Native film in central Oklahoma. Thanks!

03/30/2022

After some rough years, NXR is showing films that are about how things can and will get better! Y'all come on out!

FREE SCREENING: Join the OU Film and Media Studies department as we celebrate the return of Native Crossroads with a FREE screening of Zoe Leigh Hopkin's award winning feature film, Run Woman Run! The film will preceded by Loren Waters' short film Restoring Néške'emāne (Loren will be in attendance to introduce her film)!

We'll be screening the event THIS FRIDAY at 7:00pm at the Norman Public Library Central...did we mention it was FREE?

View the event details at the following link:
https://fb.me/e/2iP3OjFoy

Synopsis:

Single mother Beck has been running from reality. Her “breakfast of champions” is a 5 cream, 5 sugar coffee, and donuts. Something has to give and it does when Beck finds herself in a diabetic coma and visited by a ghostly ancestor, the legendary Indigenous marathon runner Tom Longboat, who becomes her wise-cracking new life coach. Told with a lighthearted touch, Run Woman Run is a feel-good anti-rom-com about a woman who has to tackle the ghosts of her past before she can run toward a new future.

WINNER:
Best Director: American Indian Film Festival (2018)

Best Canadian First Feature Film: Victoria International Film Festival (2018)

Audience Choice Award: imagineNATIVE Film Festival (2017)

IMDb:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14211006/

Official Website:
https://runwomanrunfilm.ca

03/30/2022

Run, don't walk, to Norman's Central Library for Friday's films! Come watch these funny, poignant, uplifting, and inspiring Native films--for free!

The Native Crossroads Film Festival is back, and with it, we continue to celebrate Native storytelling! Friday's event at will spotlight Zoe Leigh Hopkins' award winning feature film, Run Woman Run, which will be preceded by Loren Waters' short film Restoring Néške'emāne, with Waters in attendance to introduce her film!
http://pioneer.libnet.info/event/6396175

Thank you to all involved partners for making this possible!
Native Crossroads Film Festival
OU Film and Media Studies
OU Native American Studies
The Chickasaw Nation
OU Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences
OU Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost
Norman Arts Council

03/17/2022