<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/70900930db1c33cd25f48920e305ca83.png">The Cordillera International Film Festival's focus on inclusion continues to celebrate, elevate and empower&nbsp;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.

This documentary film underscores their spiritual connection to the land and animals and how defending the sacred is critical for the healing journey of the mother-daughter duo, Jody Potts and Quannah Chasinghorse, two powerful Han Gwich’in women, in the decades-long, intergenerational fight to protect the Arctic.

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.

In southern Arizona, twenty miles from the Mexico border, a young Indigenous girl discovers a Hispanic migrant her age who has been separated from her father while traveling through the Tohono O’odham tribal lands into the United States.

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.

Peering into the 40 year history of the Rush/Max Webster song "Battle Scar." Part expose of the original Rush/Max Webster recording as told by people who were involved in making it. Part telling of Tom Gordon's 13 year journey with over 70 people to create this charity cover benefiting the American Indian Graduate Center &amp; Washoe County School District Music Program.

Tom Gordon's Battle Scar Behind The Scenes Documentary

Cover of the 1980 Rush/Max Webster song "Battle Scar" which is a vague protest song about the plight of Native Americans. It centers around a Native American going to visit a therapist's office. There he confronts many of the struggles he, his people, and other marginalized people, have endured.

Tom Gordon's Battle Scar

Only the Earth and the Mountains" interrogates the narrative of settler colonialism in the American West by white pioneers and its implications to society today by examining the repercussions of the Sand Creek Massacre, in which more than 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho people were murdered by U.S. Cavalry troops on November 29, 1864. In speaking to the survivorsâ descendants, it becomes clear that this event is a living, perpetual lossâone that should not be forgotten.

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.

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.

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.

When internationally renowned Haida carver Robert Davidson was only 22 years old, he carved the first new totem pole on British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii in almost a century. On the 50th anniversary of the pole’s raising, Haida filmmaker Christopher Auchter steps easily through history to revisit that day in August 1969, when the entire village of Old Massett gathered to celebrate the event that would signal the rebirth of the Haida spirit.

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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