Today’s movie: Incident at Oglala Native Cinema Showcase

Today’s kickoff for the Native Cinema Showcase features Incident at Oglala at 7 pm. (USA, 1992, 89 min. For mature audiences) Presented at the New Mexico History Museum in partnership with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market.

Directed by Michael Apted, the documentary has interviews that recall the turbulence of the Pine Ridge Reservation when, on June 26, 1975, mounting antagonism between the U.S. government, tribal government, and Lakota traditionalists resulted in the deaths of many, including two FBI agents. The subsequent trial ends in the conviction of one – American Indian Movement member Leonard Peltier.

Michael Apted started his career in television and continued on to the big screen, directing and producing both fiction and non-fiction films. He is perhaps best known for the Up Series documentaries that revisited the same subjects every seven years, starting in their seventh year; the most recent installation being 56 Up.

In Person: John Trudell (Santee Sioux).

Preceded by: ištíŋma/to rest (USA, 2013, 8 min.) Director: Andres Torres-Vives Written by: Jesse Antoine Short Bull (Lakota) and Andres Torres-Vives A Lakota man reconciles with his father. Andres Torres-Vives was born in Chile, raised in New York, and completed his MFA in Film Directing/Producing at UCLA. He is currently a film professor at Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. His films have played throughout the Western Hemisphere and he has produced for film and radio worldwide.