The new Indigenous Heritage Film Festival is presenting two critically acclaimed films: Smoke Signals and Rumble. The films are both free, but reservations are required.

Schedule Of Events

October 10, 2023

7 PM: Smoke Signals

Smoke Signals is a 1998 coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Chris Eyre from a screenplay by Sherman Alexie, based on Alexie’s short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993). The film won several awards and accolades and was well received at numerous film festivals. Smoke Signals is now recognized as being the first feature-length film written, directed, and produced by Native Americans to reach a wide audience both in the US and abroad. This film is also notable for its authenticity with regard to its cast of Native American actors and actresses, and because it was filmed on location on the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation in Idaho. In 2018, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

October 11, 2023

7 PM: Rumble

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World is a Canadian documentary film directed by Catherine Bainbridge and co-directed by Alfonso Maiorana, released in 2017. The film profiles the impact of Indigenous musicians in Canada and the US on the development of rock music. Artists profiled include Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Link Wray, Jesse Ed Davis, Stevie Salas, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Robbie Robertson, Randy Castillo, Jimi Hendrix, Taboo and others. The title of the film is a reference to the pioneering instrumental “Rumble”, released in 1958 by the American group Link Wray & His Ray Men. The instrumental piece was very influential on many artists. At the Sundance Film Festival, the film won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling.

Date:
October 10-11, 2023

Hours:
7pm

Location:
Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street
Rockport, MA 01966

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