"Dear Frederick,
Greetings from Germany - It is a pleasure for me to inform you that your short film 'SURVIVING SOUNDS OF HAIDA' has been selected for INDIANER INUIT: Das Nordamerika Film Festival (The North American Native Film Festival) which will be held at Stuttgart` s Treffpunkt Rotebühlplatz (Adult Education Center) from December 10 -13, 2009.
The Annual INDIANER INUIT: Das Nordamerika Film Festival was founded in 2004. It is unique in Europe and will now take place for the 3rd time.
Thank you very much for your support!
Kindest regards,
Gunter Lange
Artistic Director"
INDIANER INUIT: Das Nordamerika Film Festival
www.nordamerika-filmfestival.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
INDIANER INUIT: 3rd NORTH AMERICA NATIVE FILM FESTIVAL
Dec. 10-13, 2009 in Stuttgart, Germany
TREFFPUNKT Rotebühlplatz will serve as venue for films from the perspective of American Indians and Inuit. Visual productions of indigenous filmmakers, directors, actors and screenwriters highlight the diversity of Native cultures and lifestyles. They add a new, unusual and assertive dimension.
With the theme "Generation Pow Wow" the festival 2009 displays films that discuss the intergenerational dialogue. In this process of transmitting knowledge and traditional values elders are of crucial importance. Emphasizing this focus the festival covers a wide range of topics and filmmakers such as the highly respected elderly Inuit Madeline Ivalu, who addresses the challenges of survival in the Arctic - both as director and as actress - or the 16 years old director Anthony Johnson, Navajo, who in his film is dealing with the fears of a Native child.
Thus the documentaries, The North American Native Film Festival is unique in Europe. Stuttgart's feature films, short films and video clips represent the multilayered reality of the indigenous population in North America. Out of 150 films submitted to the festival, the 40 most striking productions have been chosen to be shown to the public in Stuttgart.
The film festival is a result of the cooperation between professional and experienced partners: Volkshochschule Stuttgart (Adult Education Center), Linden-Museum Stuttgart (State Museum of Ethnology), German-American Center/James-F.-Byrnes Institute, and, as transatlantic partners, the renowned San Francisco American Indian Film Institute and Festival as well as the Dreamspeakers International Indigenous Film Festival in Edmonton, Canada.
For many years the film festival's artistic director Gunter Lange (Media Arts Cultural Events) has been accepted as the first non-Native member of the festival team of the San Francisco American Indian Film Institute. Owing to his long standing and trustful relations with aboriginal filmmakers, numerous award winning films and premieres can be presented, next to a number of rare productions hardly ever shown in Europe.
