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Pontchartrain Film Festival Presents "Warrior Women"

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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
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“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

PictureMadonna 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 lega
cies 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.
Buy Tickets Now:  $5 admission
Your receipt for payment will serve as your ticket
Questions? Contact the Women's Center (985) 892-8111 or info@womenscenterforhealing.org

Women's Center for Healing & Transformation
71667 Leveson Street, Abita Springs 
(985) 892-8111
info@womenscenterforhealing.org
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