Spring in Our Steps and Urban Native Collective are pleased to partner on SiOS' next alley film screening, sharing indigenous stories around colonization, modernization, and environmental destruction. See films and synopses below. Soft start at 6pm, showtime at 7pm. Behind DSGNCLCTV and The Factory Events.

Films:
HAMAC CAZIIM (2011, 29 min)
“”Hamac Cazíim” tells the story of punk rock musicians from a native tribe called the Seri nation, or Comcáac, who are using music to maintain their ancestral language and culture despite a long history of colonialists, missionaries, and modernization.

The Comcáac are a nomadic people who live in a place of mystic beauty along the Gulf of California, where the mountains meet the desert meet the sea. Despite this isolation, our world’s modernization—and our extinction of sacred animals—threaten their indigenous identity. To fight against these dangers, the band Hamac Cazíim was formed.”

Converging these themes of music, tribes, and endangered species, the film delivers a tuneful meditation on the universal challenge to preserve native heritage, and the power of music to stage that fight.”
– Film Freeway

JOE BUFFALO: Surviving the Horror of Residential Schools by Skateboarding (2021, 16 min)
“In “Joe Buffalo,” directed by Amar Chebib and executive produced by Tony Hawk, an Indigenous skateboarding legend overcomes addiction and trauma stemming from his years in Canada’s Church-run school system.”
– The New Yorker

INSEPARABLE: SKYE (14 min, 2022)
"History shows Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) climbed over mountains and scrambled rocks for trading purposes since time out of mind. Today, few Indigenous members of the islands see themselves reflected in the modern sports’ culture. Recognizing the need to bridge the connection, Skye Kolealani Razon-Olds founded Kanaka Climbers. Through her non-profit work, Skye and her family are calling on the climbing community to advocate for the protection of sacred spaces, including land and cultural resources, that are under the threat of development."
– Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival

STOP THE REROUTE: Taking a Stand on Sacred Land (90 min)
“This film documents the resistance to the planned destruction of Minnehaha Park and Coldwater Spring for the reroute of Minnesota Highway 55. The footage from four filmmakers was edited by Jonathan Carlson in 2009. With collaboration from the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community and filmmakers Jim Gambone and Annie Follett, Carlson organized barricade footage from Dakota activists Jim Anderson and Michael Scott, interview footage of some of the environmental activists from Annie Follett, and 8 hours of footage he shot during and after the occupation.”
– Jonathan Carlson, editor