 American Indian Film Institute Catalogue
American Indian Film Institute The first 25 years of film from the American Indian Film Festival, San Francisco, California. American Indian Film Institute releases historic catalogue. To order contact AIFI Films of the American Indian Film Festival, San Francisco (1975-2000) is now available for purchase. ($39.95. ISBN: 0-9713794-0-8.) Detailed information (country, year, length, genre, director, producer, distribution cost and contact) along with a brief narrative synopsis is supplied for 626 of the diverse films that have screened at the American Indian Film Festival since 1975. The catalogue offers invaluable access to material from a tremendous range of film genre, including documentary short, documentary feature, feature films, live short, industrial, music video, public service, animated short and docu-drama. Films are listed alphabetically and tribal affiliations are provided for each entry. The films represent a wide and diverse range of Indian Nations. The depth of subject matter is equally broad and includes groundbreaking films addressing cultural, social, historical and political issues relevant to Native Americans from the United States and Canada. A companion CD-ROM will be available for shipping in February 2002. The CD-ROM is fully searchable. The disk makes available Chief Dan George's historic 1975 soliloquy presented at the University of Washington in Seattle. In his speech, Chief Dan George emphasizes the desperate need for positive images of Native Americans in the film arts industry during the mid 1970s, a need we still find ourselves addressing today. In a clear statement of his commitment to the American Indian community, he says, "Listen. They are calling me, I must come." The audio recording is supplemented by a photographic montage and AIFI's history in film. In addition to this exclusive recording, the CD-ROM also duplicates the full catalogue information and includes 30 selected film clips, AIFI promotional reels and title video montage, an AIFI poster gallery featuring 25 poster/prints, back issues of ICE (Indian Cinema Entertainment), as well as complete AIFI history and program information. Films of the American Indian Film Festival, San Francisco (1975-2000) is of special interest to filmmakers, historians, and anthropologists, in addition to film and cultural critics. This informative publication catalogues a rich and deep body of work, most of which is not currently available to the public. The catalogue brings together many historic films that screened once and have subsequently been lost or forgotten, providing rare access to films from the growing and vital history of Native Americans in the film industry. The catalogue is also noteworthy, as a majority of the films are written, produced, and/or directed by American Indian and Canadian First Nation peoples and communities. The film catalogue provides rare access to American Indian films of cultural integrity, which seldom receive wide spread distribution. For libraries, bookstores, academics, critics and collectors this collection is an invaluable research tool, linking readers to film titles and well respected but little known Indigenous filmmaking talent, such as Barb Cranmer, Randy Redroad, Chris Eyre and Shirley Cheechoo. The American Indian Film Festival is highly acclaimed for its unique dedication to intelligent and insightful documentary films for educational purposes as well as mainstream entertainment. |