Main Program A – 2:00 PM

MAIN PROGRAM A
Innis Town Hall, Innis College
2 Sussex Street, Toronto, M5S 1J5

2 PM – Friday June 24

SD: In the Footsteps of the Yellow Woman
*Nominee for the ReelHeART Young Filmmakers Spirit Award
Director: Camille Manybeads Tso
United States of America
0:25:40

In the Footsteps of Yellow Woman” is a Docu-Drama written and directed by a 13 year-old Navajo girl who finds her own strengths through making a documentary about her Grandmother and their ancestral history. She imagines what it would be like to be her Great-Great-Great-Grandmother, Yellow Woman, who lived through the Navajo Long Walk of 1864 – 1868.

SD: Twenty Five Hundred & One
Director Patricia van Ryker
United States of America
0:47:00

Teococuilco, is a Pueblo of grandparents and children. There are no jobs. Working age people have left. For 6 years, Alejandro Santiago sculpted 2,501 life-size ceramic Migrantes to commemorate this problem. His “lost souls” see issues we must confront.

SD: The Promise of Tomorrow 1940-1960
Director Anna Giannotis
United States of America
1:00:00

The Promise Of Tomorrow highlights the first generation Greek Americans raised in southern California from 1940 to the early 1960′s. Personal stories of duality and great ethnic pride are told in a heartwarming and often humorous vein. Narrated by Academy Award® winner, Olympia Dukakis.