The films 'Smoke Signals' and 'Tenacity" launch the UCLA Film and Television Archive series, "Through Indians Eyes: Native American Cinema," on Saturday, Oct. 4, 7:30 p.m. at the Billy Wilder Theater in UCLA's Hammer Museum.
'Smoke Signals' is a 1998 film chronicling the journey of two unlikely friends, Victor and Thomas, to collect the ashes of Victor's long-lost father. The film explores their Native identity and past traumas, with courage and humor. 'Tenacity' is a short film about an encounter of two young Native boys with strangers on a reservation road.
"Through Indian Eyes," which runs through Dec. 15, consists of works produced in Canada and the United States and representative of a cross-section of tribal communities, including Navajo, Sioux, Seminole, Mohawk, Cree and Inuit. The series seeks to highlight the dramas, crime films, comedies, shorts, documentaries and animation created primarily in the past 30 years to fill the dearth of Native American film representation.
Find more information and purchase tickets online at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
