By Elizabeth Woller | Film Producer
We are so proud to announce that our short film, Native Silence, about four Native American women and the legacy of foster care, has received a flood of recognition and praise. We've so far been invited to four film festivals, including the exclusive Aspen ShortsFest, which qualified us for an Oscar. We have had other requests from festivals around the country following the Aspen screening, and are hoping to announce new screenings soon.
The film has also been put into distribution by Alexander Street Press and will be available for private and educational screenings soon.
We've been so inspired by the incredible reaction we've gotten from audiences and reviewers, that we are continuing on our quest to expose the modern day injustices and inequalities that impact Native American communities. Our next film focuses on a timely issue affecting Native peoples from the US up though Canada, and that's the issue of fracking, and oil mining. More and more Native women are being trafficked to the flood of oil workers who have moved to areas where fracking is allowed, such as North Dakota, and women are being used and discarded just as the sacred land that is being blasted apart.
This summer, our film team will follow the stories of North Dakota, Native women, and fracking. If you think this is an important issue, and you'd like to see the film made, please donate. Every donation helps us create a film that will educate audiences worldwide on this pressing issue.
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