Cordillera Streams - CIFF 2022

Native & Indigenous Voices - Short Film Block

Expired August 1, 2022 4:00 AM
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7 films in package
Walking Two Worlds
19 year-old Quannah Chasinghorse, and her mother, Jody Potts-Joseph, take a stand to defend their sacred homelands and way of life while breaking barriers in Indigenous representation.
Burros
A young Indigenous girl discovers a Hispanic migrant her age who has been separated from her father in the beautiful but dangerous Sonoran desert.
Tom Gordon's Battle Scar Behind The Scenes Documentary
Feel The Way I Feel
Tom Gordon's Battle Scar
Feel The Way I Feel
Only the Earth and the Mountains
Only the Earth and the Mountains" interrogates the brutal colonization of the American West — and its ongoing impact — through the perspectives of the Cheyenne and Arapaho people.
Mariah: A Boxer's Dream
Mariah Bahe is a 6x national boxing champion and 16 year old teenage girl living on the Navajo Nation, fighting her way to become the first female Navajo boxer to gain an Olympic title. With her heart set on making the USA Jr. Olympic boxing team, she is about to embark on a journey of self discovery that will introduce her to worlds she never imagined.
Now is the Time
On the 50th anniversary of the first new totem pole raising on British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii in almost a century, Haida filmmaker Christopher Auchter steps through history to revisit the day that would signal the rebirth of the Haida spirit.
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The Cordillera International Film Festival's focus on inclusion continues to celebrate, elevate and empower Native and Indigenous films, filmmakers, and creators. To ensure a broader audience for these stories, we are offering a pay-what-you-can virtual screening option.


Sixteen-year-old boxer Mariah Bahe is a six-time national champion with her sights set on competing in the Olympic Games 2024. The only girl amongst four brothers, she was born and raised on Navajo Nation in Chinle, Arizona (population 4500). Growing up, Mariah watched her father train her siblings to succeed in and out of the boxing ring while longing for her own chance to compete. At the age of six, she began training with her father, stepped into the ring, and never looked back. Now, a new short documentary, Mariah: A Boxer's Dream, follows Bahe - €“throughout 2020 en route to her National Silver Gloves tournament championship -€“ in the quest of her Olympic dream.

  • Runtime
    18 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    Nevada Premiere
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  • Director
    Nina Meredith
  • Screenwriter
    Nina Meredith, Alvaro Del Val, Sean Lyness
  • Producer
    Sean Lyness
  • Executive Producer
    Si Elborne, JT Taylor, Mark Parkman, Yiannis Exarchos, Mary Byrne, Mariano Amiune
  • Animator
    Janak Jani
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