Western Shoshone Film Screening st U.N.
Our Land, Our Life
Produced by Beth Gage & George Gage
Music by Joanne Shenandoah
Wednesday May 16,2007
1:15 pm-2:45 pm
Dag Hammarskjold Library Theatre (United Nations)
(United Nations Plaza, New York City)
Followed by panel discussion: Carrie Dann (Western Shoshone grandmother), George Gage (film maker), Western Shoshone delegates: Larson Bill, Sandy Dann, Joseph Moon and Julie Ann Fishel (WSDP).
New film on the Western Shoshone story - told from the lives of Mary and Carrie Dann, Western Shoshone sisters who have taken their struggle for Indigenous rights in the United States to the U.S. Supreme Court and beyond. Includes footage of events leading to the 2006 CERD Urgent Action Decision, interviews with CERD members, the 2006 Permanent Forum on Indigenous Populations and reflections on the impact of transnational corporations in the ongoing human rights violations.
Awarded Best Feature Documentary in San Luis Obispo International Film Festival
*Accepted at the following 2007 film festivals:
Native American Film Festival in Stuttgart, Atlanta Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Mountain Film Festival.
Western Shoshone Defense Project
P.O. Box 211308
Crescent Valley, NV 89821
(1) 775-468-0230
(1) 775-468-0237 (fax)
http://www.wsdp.org
wsdp@igc.org
Please also see the Western Shoshone series in our Economics section.
Our Land, Our Life
Produced by Beth Gage & George Gage
Music by Joanne Shenandoah
Wednesday May 16,2007
1:15 pm-2:45 pm
Dag Hammarskjold Library Theatre (United Nations)
(United Nations Plaza, New York City)
Followed by panel discussion: Carrie Dann (Western Shoshone grandmother), George Gage (film maker), Western Shoshone delegates: Larson Bill, Sandy Dann, Joseph Moon and Julie Ann Fishel (WSDP).
New film on the Western Shoshone story - told from the lives of Mary and Carrie Dann, Western Shoshone sisters who have taken their struggle for Indigenous rights in the United States to the U.S. Supreme Court and beyond. Includes footage of events leading to the 2006 CERD Urgent Action Decision, interviews with CERD members, the 2006 Permanent Forum on Indigenous Populations and reflections on the impact of transnational corporations in the ongoing human rights violations.
Awarded Best Feature Documentary in San Luis Obispo International Film Festival
*Accepted at the following 2007 film festivals:
Native American Film Festival in Stuttgart, Atlanta Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Mountain Film Festival.
Western Shoshone Defense Project
P.O. Box 211308
Crescent Valley, NV 89821
(1) 775-468-0230
(1) 775-468-0237 (fax)
http://www.wsdp.org
wsdp@igc.org
Please also see the Western Shoshone series in our Economics section.