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Woodstock Film Festival LET'S TALK FILM! PodcastTsanavi Spoonhunter & Alex Smith | Indigenous Stories in FilmsLET’S TALK FILM! Podcast Episode #9 In this episode, we chat with filmmakers Alex Smith and Tsanavi Spoonhunter about this year's Woodstock Film Festival’s Filmmaker Residency and Tsanavi’s upcoming documentary feature HOLDER OF THE SKY. Alex is a filmmaker and educator and currently serves as the Creative Director for Woodstock’s Filmmaker Residency where he helped mentor Tsanavi this past year. He and his twin brother have written and directed three feature films: WALKING OUT (2017), WINTER IN THE BLOOD (2013), and THE SLAUGHTER RULE (2002). Tsanavi Spoonhunter is a Northern Arapaho and Northern Paiute nonfiction film director...
2023-08-2822 min
Collective Spirit PodcastTsanavi Spoonhunter (Northern Paiute Tribe, Northern Arapaho Tribe), Journalist & FilmmakerAbout the EpisodeTsanavi Spoonhunter (Northern Paiute Tribe, Northern Arapaho Tribe) is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. In this episode, Spoonhunter discusses the hardships and hopes of filming her award-winning short documentary film Crow Country: Our Right to Food Sovereignty. Spoonhunter is a 2022 Artist in Business Leadership fellow with First Peoples Fund. About the ArtistJournalist and filmmaker Tsanavi Spoonhunter is a descendant of the Northern Paiute Tribe, and a citizen of the Northern Arapaho Tribe. Her ancestry and upbringing in Indian Country have strongly informed her storytelling and...
2022-03-2419 min
I'm Curious with Ashley AstiFood Apartheid in Crow Country with Tsanavi SpoonhunterIn this episode, I speak with Native American reporter and filmmaker Tsanavi Spoonhunter about her documentary Crow Country: Our Right to Food Sovereignty. On the Crow Reservation where food sources are already scarce, the one affordable grocery store has burned down and tribal members are restricted from their traditional hunting grounds. Crow Country: Our Right to Food Sovereignty follows several tribal members who are fighting for better food and a better future for their community.As Tsanavi makes it clear, this is a deeper crisis than simply not having access to healthy food: this is food apartheid. “It...
2021-01-1237 min