Public Events --
First Nations Film and Video Festival
- Location: ISM Chicago Gallery, Chicago
- Date: Friday, May 02, 2014, 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
The ISM Chicago Gallery presents a special program. The First Nations Film and Video Festival, 2014 Program Schedule Friday, May 2, 2014
Free and open to the public.
11am: Introduction from FNFVF Director 7 short films by Native American filmmakers
Feature Film 1:00 pm "The Cherokee Word for Water", Film by Charlie Soap Charlie Soap was Wilma Mankiller's husband and community development partner for more than 30 years, and a leader in the Bell Waterline project that inspired the film.
Soap and Mankiller worked to bring water to the rural, primarily, Cherokee community of Bell, OK. Due to tribal finanical limitations, Mankiller and Soap had to convince community residents to lay 18 miles of water line by themselves in order to bring running water to their homes. Thanks in large part to Mankiller's fierce determination, the community completed the project, improving their quality of life and strengthing their communal bonds.
For more information contact Jane Stevens, Associate Curator and Gallery Administrator, ISM Chicago Gallery, at jstevens@museum.state.il.us or 312-814-5318.
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