Workshop for educators with guests from INDIGENOUS – The North America Film Festival

The North America Film Festival stands for encounters, education and cultural exchange. The workshop offers teachers and educators the opportunity to talk to guests of the festival. It enables personal exchange about their family histories, social experiences and perspectives on their emancipation as an ethnic and cultural minority. The workshop focuses on responsible teaching of indigenous topics and offers practical suggestions for the use of culturally sensitive teaching materials.

Guests: Tiffany Kuliktana Ayalik, Jack Kohler, James Lujan, Jeremy Williams

About the guests:

Tiffany Kuliktana Ayalik (Inuit) has roots in the Kitikmeot and Kivalliq (Nunavut) regions of Canada. She grew up in Yellow Knife (Northwest Territories), where preserving her Indigenous roots was often a challenge. She studied acting at the University of Alberta. Her powerful performances, which combine theater, storytelling, music, set design and education, incorporate what she learned from her Indigenous elders. Together with her sister, she will give a concert as part of the PIQSIQ duo at the festival on 12 February.

Jack Kohler (Hoopa Valley Tribe) is based in California. He is a filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and founder of the non-commercial media organization On Native Ground. He offers film and video workshops for indigenous youth and young adults. The film festival presents his musical drama Something Inside is Broken and the feature film drama Gift of Fear, which is about missing and murdered indigenous women and girls.

James Lujan (Taos Pueblo) is a filmmaker, playwright and lecturer from Santa Fe, New Mexico. He founded the Cinematic Arts & Technology program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), where he has been the department head since 2012. James will be screening five of his students’ short films at the festival.

Jeremy Williams is a filmmaker and producer. He works for the US production company ESPN, which reports on alternative sports. He is the director of the documentary Sacred Dog, which will be shown at the festival. His film is about the “Indian Relay”, an extreme horse race in which the rider has to ride three times around the track on three different horses without a saddle. The competition reflects the supremacy of the horse among the Lakota – the horse as “medicine” and as a lifeline.

In English language

Register until 13 February: Tel. 0711.2022-579, fuehrung@lindenmuseum.de