Movie Night: Gather In-Person
Gather is an intimate portrait of a growing movement amongst Indigenous Americans to reclaim their spiritual and cultural identities through obtaining sovereignty over their ancestral food systems - while battling against the historical trauma brought on by centuries of genocide.
Gather follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation (Arizona), opening an Indigenous café as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation (South Dakota), conducting landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation (Northern California), trying to save the Klamath river.
The film is the result of a two-year collaboration between First Nations and Indian-American documentary film director Sanjay Rawal, and in many ways, it reflects the words of Pulitzer Prize-winning author N. Scott Momaday, who wrote in House Made of Dawn, “They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.”
Production Notes: Gather (directed by Sanjay Rawal, 2020, US, English, 74')
A New York Times Critic's Pick
Cover Image (c) Renan Ozturk
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- Date:
- Wednesday, September 25, 2024
- Time:
- 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Audience:
- Adults Teens
- Categories:
- Movie Screening
- Attachments: