Pontchartrain Film Festival Presents "Warrior Women"
Monday, October 14
6:30 - 9:00 pm
Doors open at 6:30 for introduction
Film starts at 7:00
Award Winning Documentary by Christina D. King & Elizabeth A. Castle
“Warrior Women” is the story of mothers and daughters fighting for Native rights in the American Indian Movement of the 1970's. The film unveils not only a female perspective of history, but also examines the impact political struggles have on the children who bear witness.
The Pontchartrain Film Festival brings award-winning films and filmmakers to the North Shore. The Women's Center is pleased to be one of the community partners hosting a screening again this year in observance of Indigenous People's Day. PURCHASE TICKETS BELOW
6:30 - 9:00 pm
Doors open at 6:30 for introduction
Film starts at 7:00
Award Winning Documentary by Christina D. King & Elizabeth A. Castle
“Warrior Women” is the story of mothers and daughters fighting for Native rights in the American Indian Movement of the 1970's. The film unveils not only a female perspective of history, but also examines the impact political struggles have on the children who bear witness.
The Pontchartrain Film Festival brings award-winning films and filmmakers to the North Shore. The Women's Center is pleased to be one of the community partners hosting a screening again this year in observance of Indigenous People's Day. PURCHASE TICKETS BELOW
Madonna Thunder Hawk with daughter Marcella Gilbert
ABOUT THE FILM:
In the 1970's, with the swagger of unapologetic Indianness, organizers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) fought for Native liberation and survival as a community of extended families.
"Warrior Women" is the story of Madonna Thunder Hawk, one such AIM leader who shaped a kindred group of activists' children - including her daughter Marcy - into the "We Will Remember" Survival School as a Native alternative to government-run education. Together, Madonna and Marcy fought for Native rights in an environment that made them more comrades than mother-daughter. Today, with Marcy now a mother herself, both are still at the forefront of Native issues, fighting against the environmental devastation of the Dakota Access Pipeline and for Indigenous cultural values.
Through a circular Indigenous style of storytelling, this film explores what it means to navigate a movement and motherhood, and how activist legacies are passed down and transformed from generation to generation in the context of a colonizing government that meets Native resistance with violence.
In the 1970's, with the swagger of unapologetic Indianness, organizers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) fought for Native liberation and survival as a community of extended families.
"Warrior Women" is the story of Madonna Thunder Hawk, one such AIM leader who shaped a kindred group of activists' children - including her daughter Marcy - into the "We Will Remember" Survival School as a Native alternative to government-run education. Together, Madonna and Marcy fought for Native rights in an environment that made them more comrades than mother-daughter. Today, with Marcy now a mother herself, both are still at the forefront of Native issues, fighting against the environmental devastation of the Dakota Access Pipeline and for Indigenous cultural values.
Through a circular Indigenous style of storytelling, this film explores what it means to navigate a movement and motherhood, and how activist legacies are passed down and transformed from generation to generation in the context of a colonizing government that meets Native resistance with violence.
Watch the trailer below (1:31). To learn more, visit the Warrior Women homepage.
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Doors open at 6:30 for an introduction to the film. Film starts at 7:00 pm, followed by Q & A. |
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Questions? Contact the Women's Center (985) 892-8111 or [email protected]
Women's Center for Healing & Transformation
71667 Leveson Street, Abita Springs
(985) 892-8111
[email protected]
71667 Leveson Street, Abita Springs
(985) 892-8111
[email protected]
