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January 11th, 2024
One Week Until the Film Festival!
The countdown begins! Children of the Setting Sun’s 6th annual Treaty Day Film Festival (TDFF) is almost here! TDFF was created in remembrance of the 1855 Point Elliot Treaty. It is celebrated today to unify and educate the community on Indigenous perspectives and the issues we currently face. From cultural identity to salmon and habitat revitalization, we aim to shed light on matters that impact our communities.
Don't Forget - TDFF Tribal Community Screening!
Treaty Day Film Festival presents a special screening exclusive to tribal community members! This is a free event and will have the same awesome lineup as our general public shorts program. Taking place January 19th, 2024 at the Silver Reef Casino, the doors will open at 5:00pm! No admission ticket required, and free movie snacks!
Saturday, January 20th, 2024
General Screening @ The Pickford Film Center
Shorts Program:
Jason LaClair: Story Pole Film, a Children of the Setting Sun Production | The Story Pole is a sneak preview to a film CSSP is working on about the life and work of Jason LaClaire, a Coast Salish Artist who has overcome the struggles of addiction and incarceration through art, expression and community action.
Walking Two Worlds directed by Maia Wikler | 19-year-old Quannah Chasinghorse, and their mother, Jody Potts-Joseph, take a stand to defend their sacred homelands and way of life while breaking barriers in Indigenous representation.
The Water Walker directed by James Burns | This documentary follows teenaged Anishinaabe water activist Autumn Peltier as she travels to the UN to preserve the future of Indigenous communities.
Weaving the Path directed by Cristobal Ruiz | This film explores the life of Debra Sparrow together with the cultural and spiritual meaning that weaving has had in her life and the Coast Salish communities.
The Sound, a Children of the Setting Sun Production | The pilot episode of a coming-of-age TV drama that follows a group of Indigenous Coast Salish teens as they travel through their ancestral waterways in a traditional canoe. Their journey starts as an escape from hurt and trauma, but soon becomes a purposeful route to transformation and self-discovery.
Feature Film:
Frybread Face and Me directed by Billy Luther | Two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds bond during a summer herding sheep on their grandmother's ranch in Arizona while learning more about their family's past and themselves.
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