Wiping The Tears of Seven Generations | The Peyote Road | The Red Road To Sobriety | Red Road Video Talking Circle | Your Humble Serpent | A Seat At The Table
"Informative ...overview of the diverse religious-freedom issues effecting
Native Americans. ...Issues highlighted here include clear-cutting forests,
pollution, land development and governmentally limited access to sacred sites.
...vanishing native languages, difficulty prison inmates have in observing their
religion, and the criminalization of ritual peyote use. ...Irony is not lost
that First Nation peoples are experiencing such disputes in a country expressly
founded to protect religious freedom."
Variety
"A Seat At The Table is a valuable and insightful film about a too long overlooked topic, the right of Native American people to have their sacred sites and practices honored and protected. Let's hope it gets shown far and wide, enough to bring about a real shift in policy and consciousness".
Bonnie Raitt
DreamCatchers, the social profit (non-profit) organization founded by the officers of Kifaru Productions, has co-produced with The Northern Navajo Medical Center Health Promotions Program of Shiprock, New Mexico a health and fitness 2 video set entitled REZ ROBICS and REZ ROBICS FOR COUCH POTATO SKINS. The project was inspired by the fact that Diabetes has become one of the most serious threats to the health of Indian people both on the reservations and in urban settings.
REZ ROBICS is a 90 minute aerobics video, mixing pow wow dancing and martial arts with normal aerobics movements. REZ ROBICS FOR COUCH POTATO SKINS, winner of the "Best Public Service Announcement Award" at The American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco, is a half hour comedy featuring two prominent Native actor / comedians; Elaine Miles (Northern Exposure, Smoke Signals) and Drew LaCapa, the up and coming comedian who calls himself "300 pounds of love". It also includes another 30 minutes of inspirational interviews with all the Indian people involved in the production, and a 10 minute program on the diabetes struggle of Tom Bee, the founder of Sound of America Records.
The RezRobics programs are being distributed
free of charge to the Indigenous communities of North America.
For information on how to receive yours...
GO TO: http://www.dreamcatchers.org/rezrobics/
Premiering at The Amnesty International Film Festival with rave reviews including Variety and Indian Country Today, "A Seat At The Table" was designed to raise the level of respect paid to the religious traditions of American Indian people both in the educational institutions of North America and in the halls of government. Together with the companion book of the same name, published by University of California Press, "A Seat At The Table" will be educating the future decision makers of the United States and the world for years to come, about the problems which Indian people continue to face in practicing their spritual ceremonies.
TThe thread of the program; dialogs between 8 respected Indian leaders and the legendary Professor of Religious Studies, Huston Smith, were shot at The Parliament of The World’s Religions, an event which has only taken place 3 times in the last 100 years. Each of the 8 issues dealt with are important ones to Indian people, and together, they offer an insightful glimpse into Indigenous peoples spiritual ways. Available in DVD and VHS Tape.
For more information about the video documentary, A Seat At The Table,
visit the Berkely Media website at: http://www.berkeleymedia.com/catalog/berkeleymedia/films/american_studies/
a_seat_at_the_table_struggling_for_american_indian_religious_freedom
For more information about the book, A Seat At The Table,
visit the UC Press website at:
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10373.html
Beginning January 1st, 2005, distribution of our documentaries is being handeled by Berkeley Media, one of America's foremost distributors of independently produced educational media. Kifaru Productions ais grateful to have our programs join the Berkeley Media collection of some 115 titles which have won more than 500 awards and honors at festivals and academic association screenings worldwide. “Wiping The Tears of Seven Generations”, “The Peyote Road”, “The Red Road To Sobriety”, “Your Humble Serpent” and “A Seat At The Table” are all now available along side the impressive library of Native American documentaries which Berkeley Media distributes. And they’re all newly released in DVD format as well as the original VHS tape.
The best way to contact Berkeley Media is by email, as email messages are usually answered before phone messages. If you do phone and get their voicemail, please leave your email address with your message. The folks at Berkeley Media are normally in the office Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Pacific Timee.
Berkeley Media LLC
Saul Zaentz Film Center
2600 Tenth Street, Suite 626
Berkeley, CA 94710
Phone: (510) 486-9900
Fax: (510) 486-9944
Email: info@berkeleymedia.com
Home Page: http://www.berkeleymedia.com
Ordering Information: http://www.berkeleymedia.com/ordering
TV Broadcasts and Special Screenings If you’d like to request a TV broadcast or special screening of A Kifaru Productions documentary, or if you’d like one of our producers to make an appearance, please contact Gary Rhine by email at: rhino@kifaru.com