First Nations Film and Video Festival: GIFT OF FEAR (2023)
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Sunday, May 7th, at 1PM
First Nations Film and Video Festival presents:
GIFT OF FEAR
Directed by Katy Dore, Jack Kohler (Hoopa Tribal Member)
(2023, 106 min, Digital)
About the film:
Mili watched in horror as her mother was murdered 11 years ago, becoming another Missing and Murdered Indigenous statistic. Now 17, Mili’s former crew kidnaps her girlfriend after Mili chooses her MMA team over the gang. Tribal cops and an agent from the Federal Missing and Murdered Unit are on the case, but Mili waited for the authorities once…she won’t wait this time.
Introduced by Ernest M. Whiteman III, a Northern Arapaho filmmaker, artist, writer, and media educator. Ernest is the Co-director of First Nations Film and Video Festival.
About the festival:
First Nations Film and Video Festival, Inc. (FNFVF, Inc.) hosts two annual film festivals dedicated to presenting a contemporary view of Native American culture, films directed by Native American film and video makers fo all skill levels. The mission of the First Nations Film and Video Festival is to advocate for and celebrate the works of Native Americans filmmakers and new works and films that break racial stereotypes and promotes awareness of Native American issues and to provide an appropriate venue for their works. All films screened are written and/or produced and directed by Native American artists from the United States, Canada, Central and South America and Mexico.
For more information about First Nations Film and Video Festival, visit http://www.fnfvf.org/
Contact The Block Museum of Art for more information: (847) 491-4000 or email us at block-museum@northwestern.edu
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