For 20 years the Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquois & United Tribes of SC have brought Native American Indian & Indigenous peoples globally to audiences with film. Today, filmmakers, artists, and writers are some of our most important storytellers.
Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquois & United Tribes of South Carolina will be presenting independently produced film and video, feature length and short length films, documentary, experimental, student, religious/spiritual, animation, comedy, horror/Sci-Fi and all genre of music videos, once again is the 20th Annual Native American Indian & Indigenous Film Festival of the southeast, held November 5-14, 2017. In celebration and observance of National Native American Indian and Alaskan Native Heritage Month. This community-based event aims to present the richness and variety of Native American and indigenous cinematic expressions, as independent filmmakers share their unique dreams and concerns, as well as those of their varied communities, through the art of the moving image. The organizers of the festival want to enhance awareness in Native American Indian talent and provide exposure of the arts, independent Native American Indian cinema, media, and the motion picture industry to the southeastern United States. ECSIUT is a nonprofit that serves federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Natives and “state status” Native American Indian people, and is also a tribally based intertribal consortia. The festival started in 1997, nineteen years later, the festival is the longest-running of its type in the Southeast and has expanded in both scope and size. Films are welcomed that feature talent, stories and themes from Central America’s indigenous people, South America, and indigenous films from throughout the world globally including Aboriginal films from Australia and New Zealand. Annually the theme that connects all of the films is one of bridging Native and non-Native communities, and highlighting contemporary Native issues that mirror those experienced by other communities and cultures.
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