At a time when resource anxiety is beginning to infuse all manner of movies — from eco-documentaries to horror flicks — the 8th Indigenous Film & Arts Festival offers visions of cultural awareness and sustainablity.
And it does it for free.
This year from opening to close, reception to skyped Q&A, the festival goings-on won’t cost you a thing but your curiosity. (Of course, ye of good will are encouraged to donate.)
Things begin Wednesday at the Denver Botanic Gardens with “Allan Houser/Haozous: The Lifetime Work of an American Master” and a tour of Houser sculpture at the gardens (5:30 p.m.). Oct. 15, seek out “Little Thunder,” a beautiful animated short of the Mi’kmaq Stone Canoe legend (7 p.m.). Oct. 16, the festival ends at the Museum of Nature & Science with “Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change.” Codirectors Ian Mauro and Zacharias Kunuk (“The Fast Runner”) will participate in a discussion on the cultural impacts of climate change. (6 p.m)
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Lisa Kennedy
