Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival

Our 8th Annual Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival. Festival events will take place at both the Virginia Museum of History & Culture and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Schedule of Events

9:15am: Bring Them Home - Aiskótahkapiyaaya (2024)

Narrated by Academy Award-nominated Blackfeet - Nez Perce actor Lily Gladstone and Co-Directed by Blackfeet siblings Ivan and Ivy MacDonald with Daniel Glick. Thunderheart Films/The Redford Center
Bring Them Home examines the deeply meaningful role that buffalo played in Blackfeet life prior to the arrival of settlers who nearly eradicated wild buffalo in an effort to eradicate the Blackfeet people. For Blackfeet, the buffalo are not only seen as fundamental to a healthy ecosystem, but as spiritual relatives. Their removal from the land meant the loss of the Blackfeet way of life, the trauma of which still reverberates today.

3:30pm: The Woman Of Stars And Mountains (2023) - Mexico

Spanish, English, Tarahumara, English Subtitles
Indigeneity Beyond the Southern Border Presented by Federico Cuatlacuatl
Director: Santiago Esteinou
Producer: Santiago Esteinou, Jose Miguel Diaz Salinas, Axel Pedraza Avila, Javier Campos Lopez
Rita, an indigenous woman from Mexico, left her Tarahumara mountain community in northern Mexico and embarked on a journey to Kansas. There, she was involuntarily detained and confined in a psychiatric hospital for 12 years because the hospital authorities could not ascertain her identity, origins, or the language she spoke. Upon the discovery of the truth, Rita returned to her community and her niece, Juanita, who cared for her. The Woman of Stars and Mountains presents a moving portrait of Rita and explores the multiple forms of racism and discrimination that indigenous women face.

Best Documentary – Ibero-Latin American Film Festival of Trieste, Italy Nominated, Golden Alexander Award – Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece Best Int’l Documentary – Docville International Documentary Film Festival, Belgium.

7pm: Red Fever (2024) - Canada

Directed by Neil Diamond & Catherine Bainbridge
Produced by Rezolution Pictures
Red Fever is a witty and entertaining feature documentary about the profound - yet hidden - Indigenous influence on Western culture and identity. The film follows Cree co-director Neil Diamond as he asks, "Why do they love us so much?!" and sets out on a journey to find out why the world is so fascinated with the stereotypical imagery of Native people that is all over pop culture. Why have Indigenous cultures been revered, romanticized, and appropriated for so long, and to this day? Red Fever uncovers the surprising truths behind the imagery - so buried in history that even most Native people don’t know about them.

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