From the filmmakers of the award-winning Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart comes a documentary about one of our most important and controversial contemporary Native Americans leaders. Filmed in Nevada on the Paiute-Shoshone Indian Reservation, Contrary Warrior is an intimate first-person account of the life and work of Red Lake Reservation Minnesota-born American Indian activist, artist, ceremonial leader, author – and enemy of the state – Adam Fortunate Eagle.
Posts Tagged ‘“political”’
A Film About Anna Akhmatova
“A Film About Anna Akhmatova is an important happening for me, for all of us.”
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Orange Winter
Revolution. Rivalry. Poison. This is the Ukrainian Election of 2004.
Long Knives Night and Reporting from a Rabbit Hutch
A ferocious film in two parts, depicting and severely criticizing the rise and reign of Alexander Lukashenko, dictator of Belarus.
“Indelible portraits of power’s absolute corruption…an astonishing diatribe…heaves with disturbing scenes of violence against innocent Belarussians…a primal howl of outrage.”
- Jeannette Catsoulis, NY TIMES
