Indigenous Film Festival

The following films were screened at the 2004 Indigenous Heritage Festival:

Media Kit	Atayal (Taroko) Trail by Chi You Ken (Dain Nadave Sawon Ges-amun) - Produced by Shiner Productions, Ltd. of Taiwan, MeGa Film Productions of Canada, and Directed by Chi You Ken and sponsored by ATAYAL, Inc. This one-hour documentary film, produced in 2003-2004, features the amazing story of the famous Atayal Trail, which is a mountainous path carved from marble cliffsides near Hualien, Taiwan. The Atayal tribe used this trail for hundreds of years until the Japanese conquered the tribes. These trails were the scenes of important tribal culture as well as the site of fierce battles against the Japanese.
Media Kit	Purple Petal by Hedy (Yudaw) Domzalski - Purple Petal is a young woman's personal journey of self discovery hand-animated in guache, pastel and other media. Featuring traditional Taiwanese aboriginal music, it is a rare gem.
Media Kit	The Shirt by Shelly Niro - This short film by Mohawk Director Shelley Niro takes a symbolic and poignant look at the Native-American point of view. The work depicts a cool and tough-looking Indian woman who faces the camera directly. Poised against the landscape of "America," she wears an American flag bandanna on her head, dark aviator sunglasses, dungarees, and a white t-shirt. The t-shirt bears a different message in each frame, sequentially revealing a discourse on colonialism.
Media Kit	Honey Moccasin by Shelly Niro - In this all-American Indian 1998 production, Mohawk artist and director Shelley Niro explores American Indian identity in the 1990s. this film is part of the smoke signals new wave of films that examine native identity in the 1990's. set on the Grand Pine Indian Reservation, aka "Reservation X", Honey Moccasin combines elements of melodrama, performance art, cable access, and 'whodunit' to question conventions of ethnic and sexual identity as well as film narrative.