All Roads Film Festival 1145 17th Street, Suite M2106
Washington, DC 20036
Director: Francene Blythe
Phone: 202-857-7660 allroads@ngs.org www.nationalgeographic.com/allroads
Deadline: May
Festival: September (Los Angeles), October (Washington,
D.C.), December (Santa Fe)
American Indian Film Festival
333 Valencia Street, Suite 322
San Francisco, CA 94103 Director: Michael Smith Phone: 415-554-0525 aifisf@yahoo.com www.aifisf.com Deadline: August Festival: November
American Indian Film Festival at Bellevue Community College
Carlson Theatre, Building E
3000 Landerholm Circle S.E.
Bellevue, WA 98007 Contact: Bob Adams Phone: 425-564-3081 badams@bcc.ctc.edu http://bellevuecollege.edu/aiff/ Most recent festival: November 2007
Augsburg College Native American Film Series
CB 115, Augsburg College
2211 Riverside Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55454 Contact: M. Elise Marubbio Phone: 612-423-9556 or 612-330-1523 marubbio@augsburg.edu www.augsburg.edu/ais/filmseries/ New Voices in Native Media Deadline: January All Programs: December - April
DerHumALC International Human Rights Film Festival
Callao 441
10º C Second Building
Buenos Aires, Argentina Phone: 54-011-43282978 infofestival@derhumalc.org.ar www.derhumalc.org.ar Deadline: January Festival: April
Dreamspeakers Film Festival
8726 112 Avenue
Edmondton, Alberta T5B 0G6, Canada President: Murray Jurak Executive Director: Helen Calahasen Phone: 780-378-9609 info@dreamspeakers.org www.dreamspeakers.org Deadline: March Festival: June
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Encuentro Hispanoamericano de Video Documental
Independiente: Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces (All Voices Against Silence Independent Documentary Festival)
Carrasco #74, Col. Toriello Guerra, Tlalpan
C. P. 14050, México, D. F., México General Director: Cristian Calónico Phone: (52) (55) 55-28-07-97 or (52) (55) 56-06-73-76 festival@contraelsilencio.org www.contraelsilencio.org Deadline (biennial): December Next festival: April 2008
Environmental Film Festival at Eckerd College
Eckerd College
4200 54th Avenue South
St. Petersburg, Florida 33711 Coordinator: Catherine Griggs Phone: 727-864-7979 griggscm@eckerd.edu www.eckerd.edu/film Curated program Festival: February
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
1228 ½ 31st Street NW
Washington, DC, 20007 Executive Director: Annie Kaempfer Founder and Creative Director: Flo Stone Managing Director: Peter O'Brien Phone: 202-342-2564 envirofilmfest@igc.org www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org Curated program Festival: March
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Fargo Film Festival
Fargo Theatre
314 Broadway
Fargo, ND 58102 Executive Director: Margie Bailly Operations Manager: Prairie Rose Phone: 701-239-8385 Fax: 701-235-0893 margie@fargotheatre.org www.fargofilmfestival.org Deadline: January 1 Festival: March
* Native American Voices section and prizes
Festival Internacional de Cine de
Morelia/Morelia International Film Festival
Melchor Ocampo #35, Col. Centro
C.P. 58000, Morelia, Michoacán, México Director: Daniela Michel Morelia phone: (52) (443) 317-7801 or (52) (443) 317-7802 Mexico City phone: (52) (55) 1054-6797 or (52) (55) 5511-5150 moreliafilmfest@prodigy.net.mx www.moreliafilmfest.com
(English and Spanish) Deadline: May Festival: October
*First Nations Forum
Festival Internacional de Cine y Video
de los Pueblos Indígenas (International Film and Video
Festival of Indigenous Peoples) Organized by CLACPI (Coordinadora Latinoamericana de
Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas) Director (2006-8): Alberto
Muenala
General Information: CEFREC CAIB, Calle Otero de la Vega 812, 2do Piso,
zona San Pedro, La Paz, Bolivia
Phone/Fax: (5912) 249-0094 (Orlando Antezana, Edgar Suxo)
Phone/Fax: (5912) 249-2398 (Abel Ticona) cefrec@gmail.com www.clacpi.org
(Spanish)
Deadline: May 16, 2008
Next festival (biennial): September 11-10, 2008 in
Bolivia For information in English, contact NMAI at FVC@si.edu.
For a report on the 2006 Festival, enter
here.
Festival of Native Film & Culture
Agua Caliente Cultural Museum
471 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way
Palm Springs, CA 92262 Festival Coordinator: Sharon May Phone: 760-778-1079, Ext. 101 smay@accmuseum.org www.accmuseum.org Deadline: January Festival: March
First Americans in the Arts Film/TV/Theatrical
Awards
FAITA
P.O. Box 17780
Beverly Hills, CA 90109-3780 Founders: Bob Hicks and Dawn Jackson Phone: 310-270-5388 admin@firstamericans.org www.firstamericans.org/call4entries.htm Nominations deadline: December Awards presentation: March
First Nations Film and Video Festival
of Chicago
American Indian Center
1630 W. Wilson
Chicago, IL 60640 Director: Ernest Whiteman Phone: 773-275-5871 x 20 ernest@aic-chicago.org www.fnfvf.com/home.html Deadline: August Festival: November
First Peoples' Festival Film & Video
Showcase/Présence authoctone
Terres en vues/LandInSights
6865 Christophe-Colomb, Suite 102
Montreal, QC, H2S 2H3 Canada Cultural Director: André Dudemaine Coordinator: Mary Ellen Davis Phone: 514-278-4040 Fax: 514-278-4224 tev@nativelynx.qc.ca www.nativelynx.qc.ca
(English and French) Deadline: March Festival: June
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Hawaii International Film Festival
680 Iwilei Road, Suite 100
Honolulu, HI 96817 Programming Director: Anderson Le Phone: 808-528-3456 Fax: 808-536-2707 info@hiff.org www.hiff.org
*includes works by indigenous Pacific Islanders
herland Film and Video Festival
#208, 223-12 Ave.,SW
Calgary, Alberta, T2R 0G9 Canada Festival Coordinator: Michelle Heywood Phone: 403-245-3441 Fax: 403-234-9532 herlandfestival@telus.net www.herlandfestival.com
*section of works by Aboriginal women
Heard Museum Film Festival
2301 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85004-1323 Contact: Wendy Weston and Lorinda Simmons Phone: 602-252-8840 filmfestival@heard.org www.heard.org/filmfest.html The festival has been suspended in 2008.
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imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
401 Richmond St. West, Suite 349
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8 Canada Director: Rebeka Tabobondung Phone: 416-585-2333 Fax: 416-585-2313 info@imagineNATIVE.org www.imaginenative.org Deadline: June Festival: October
Indianer Inuit: North American Native Film Festival
Stuttgart, Germany Artistic Director: Gunter Lange General Film Manager (in Canada): Claudia Kleint-Steinke
136-252 Stone Road West
Guelph, ON, N1G 2V7 Canada cks@nordamerika-filmfestival.com www.nordamerika-filmfestival.com/en/index.html Deadline: August 2008 Next Festival (biennial): March 2009
Indigenous Film and Arts Festival
International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management
444 South Emerson Street
Denver, CO 80209-2216 Director: Jeanne Rubin Phone: 303-744-9686 jeannerubin@iiirm.org www.iiirm.org Curated program Festival: October
Indigenous World Film Festival
(formerly Native Film Festival)
Alaska Native Heritage Center
8800 Heritage Center Drive
Anchorage, AK 99506 Director: Steven Alvarez Phone: 907-330-8091 salvarez@alaskanative.net www.alaskanative.net Curated program
Festival: January
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th St.
New York, NY 10024-5192 Director: Elaine Charnov Phone: 212-769-5305 meadfest@amnh.org www.amnh.org/mead Deadline: May Festival: November
Native American Film + Video Festival
Film and Video Center
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)
One Bowling Green
New York, NY 10004 Directors: Elizabeth Weatherford and Emelia Seubert Festival Producer: Michelle Svenson Latin American Program Coordinator: Amalia Cordova Phone: 212-514-3737 Fax: 212-514-3725 FVC@si.edu www.nativenetworks.si.edu
(English); www.redesindigenas.si.edu
(Spanish) Deadline: September 2008 Next festival (biennial): March 2009 Festival 2000; Festival
2003; Festival 2006
Native American Film Series
Columbia Film Society
937 Main Street
Columbia, SC 29201 Contact: Andy Smith Phone: 803-254-8234 andy@nickelodeon.org www.nickelodeon.org Series: Ongoing
Native American Film Festival
Friends of the Oglala Lakota (FOL)
PO Box 497
Dublin, NH 03444 Founding Director (FOL): Nancy Cayford Phone: 603-563-8021 lakotafriends@lakotafriends.org www.lakotafriends.org Curated program
Festival: April
Native Cinema Showcase Organized by NMAI Film and Video Center and Center for Contemporary
Arts (CCA)
Center for Contemporary Arts
1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87501 Contact: Michelle Svenson Phone: 212-514-3731 FVC@si.edu www.nativenetworks.si.edu
Curated program Showcase: August
Native Eyes Film Showcase
University of Arizona
Hanson Film Institute, Department of Media Arts
845 N. Park Ave
Marshall Building Rm. 220
Tucson, AZ 85721-0158 Director: Vicky Westover Phone: 520-626-9825 vwestove@email.arizona.edu www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/public/native_eyes
Curated program
Festival: September
Native Voices Film Festival
University of Washington, Center for Indigenous Media
Seattle, WA 98195 Directors: Luana K. Ross and Daniel Hart Phone: 206-616-7498 Fax: 206-616-3122 nvoices@u.washington.edu www.com.washington.edu/nativevoices/ Curated program
Festival: April
Native Voice Film Festival
2218 Jackson Blvd., Suite 7
Rapid City, SD 57702 Director: Lise King Phone: 605-718-9141 publisher@native-voice.com www.native-voice.com Deadline: February Festival: May
NMAI At the Movies Series/New York
Film and Video Center
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
One Bowling Green
New York, NY 10004 Contact: Reaghan Tarbell Phone: 212-514-3734 FVC@si.edu www.nativenetworks.si.edu
(English) www.redesindigenas.si.edu
(Spanish) Curated program Semi-monthly series: April - October
NMAI Daily Screening Series/New York Especially for Kids and Daily Screenings
Film and Video Center
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
One Bowling Green
New York, NY 10004 Contact: Millie Seubert Phone: 212-514-3737 FVC@si.edu www.nativenetworks.si.edu
(English) www.redesindigenas.si.edu
(Spanish) Curated programs
Two daily programs of independent Native media, one for youth
and one for general audiences (multiple screenings). Programming
changes monthly.
NMAI Screening Series/Washington, D.C.
Film and Video Program
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
4th Street and Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20024 Contacts: Melissa Bisagni and Sierra Ornelas Phone: 202-633-6694/6695 FVC@si.edu www.nativenetworks.si.edu
(English) www.redesindigenas.si.edu
(Spanish) Curated programs
Daily programs of independent Native media (multiple screenings).
Programming changes monthly. Frequent film programs with speakers.
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Premio Anaconda
CLACPI-Bolivia
Calle Otero de la Vega #812- 2do. Piso
La Paz, Bolivia, Casilla 9368 Coordinator: Nila Ruiz Phone: (591) (2) 249-0094 comaru@entelnet.bo www.praia-amazonia.org/anaconda Most recent festival (biennial): October-November
2006
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Red Fork Film Festival
Tulsa Community College - West Campus
7505 W. 41st St
Tulsa, OK 74107
Attn: Red Fork Director: Gerald Wofford Phone: 918-732-7634 gwofford@muscogeenation.nsn.gov Deadline: May Festival: November
Reel2Real International Film Festival for Youth
c/o National Film Board of Canada
#200 - 1385 West 8th Ave.
Vancouver, BC, V6H 3V9 Canada Executive Director: Venay Felton Phone: 604-224-6162 info@r2rfestival.org www.r2rfestival.org Deadline: September Festival: February
Santa Fe Film Festival
The Film Center at Cinemacafe
1616 St. Michaels Drive
Santa Fe, NM 87504 Executive Director: Jon Bowman Phone: 505-988-7414 info@santafefilmfestival.com www.santafefilmfestival.com Deadline: September Festival: December
*Award for Best Indigenous Film
Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Institute
8530 Wilshire Blvd., 3rd Floor
Beverly Hills, CA 90211 Native American Program: Bird Runningwater Phone: 310-360-1981 Ext.124 native@sundance.org www.sundance.org Deadline: September Festival: January
Tulalip Film Festival
c/o NWIC-Tulalip Film Festival
6700 Totem Beach Road
Tulalip, WA 98271 Interim Director: Daniel Jones Phone: 360-651-3570 Fax: 360-651-4538 tffgeneral@nwic.edu www.nwic.edu/tulalipff/ Deadlines: June and July Festival: August
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Wairoa Maori Film Festival
P.O. Box 379
Wairoa 4192, New Zealand Director: Leo Koziol Phone: (64) (6) 838-7717 maorimovies@gmail.com www.manawairoa.com Deadline: February Festival: May - June
Weeneebeg Aboriginal Film and Video Festival
P.O. Box 388
Moose Factory, ON, P0L 1W0 Canada Executive Director: Paul Rickard Creative Director: Paul McLeod Phone: 705-658-6987 fredrickard@mac.com www.weeneebeg.ca Festival: March
Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival
(formerly Winnipeg Aboriginal Film and Video Festival) PO Box 26074, R.P.O Maryland
Winnipeg, MB R3G 3R3 Canada Artistic Directors: Coleen Rajotte and Rick Harp Phone:204-774-1375 or 204-880-5381 info@aboriginalfilmfest.org www.aboriginalfilmfest.org Deadline: August Festival:November
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