SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM
100 minutes total. Not Rated. Directed by Various. In English and Various with English subtitles.
Note: Dawn Neptune Adams cannot attend tonight’s screening. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Bounty filmmaker Dawn Neptune Adams will be in attendance at the 6 p.m. Friday, September 23 screening, and will lead a talkback after the screening of Bounty (9 minutes), before we play the Sundance Indigenous Short Film Tour (91 minutes).
Bounty, part of the Dawnland film series, reveals the hidden story of the Phips Proclamation, one of many scalp-bounty proclamations used to exterminate Native people in order to take their land in what is now New England. In the film, Penobscot parents and children resist erasure and commemorate survival by reading and reacting to the government-issued Phips Proclamation’s call for colonial settlers to hunt, scalp, and murder Penobscot people.
The 2022 Sundance Institute Indigenous Short Film Tour is a 91-minute theatrical program of 6 short films directed by Indigenous filmmakers, featuring titles from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival shorts program and from alumni of Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program. Started last year as a virtual presentation in conjunction with our friends at museums, Native cultural centers, and arthouse cinemas, the tour will return in 2022 as an in-person exhibition. Featuring narrative and documentary shorts, the curated selection is a celebration of Native perseverance and an exciting look at a variety of inventive storytelling from Indigenous artists with Sundance ties. The Festival’s Short Film Program has a long history of supporting and launching talented Indigenous directors including Taika Waititi, Blackhorse Lowe, Sterlin Harjo, Sky Hopinka, Caroline Monnet, and Shaandiin Tome.