EVENT CALENDAR
Smithsonian Museum, NY
November 24th – 30th, 2014
Read the press release here.
April 28th and 29th, 2011
Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, NY Cornell University & Ithaca College
October 17, 2004
Sedgewick Cultural Center, Philadelphia
October 9, 2004
Stars in the Desert Festival, Arizona
April 16, 2004
Big Sky Documentary Festival, Montana
February 25, 2004
Siskiyou Environmental Film Festival Oregon
February 24, 2004
Mashantucket Pequot Museum, Connecticut
February 14th and 21st, 2004
INPUT in the USA, South Carolina ETV
December 10th, 2003
Hirschhorn Museum, Environmental Film Festival, Washington, DC
March 13th, 2003
Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, NY
February 24th, 2003
Museum of Modern Art, New York
December 15, 2002
Columbia College Chicago, The Documentary Center
December 6, 2002
Toronto International Environmental Film Fest, Toronto
September 2nd, 2002
Festival of Narrative Arts, Las Vegas, NM
August 5th, 2002
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
July 18th, 2002
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
March 2nd, 2002
Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR
February 7th, 2002
U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
November 11, 2001
University of New Mexico, Gallup
October 27, 2001
Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Hopkins Center Film
October 4, 2001
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
October 1st, 2nd, 2001
Docupolis Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain
October, 2001
Mesa Verde Nat'l Park, Chapin Mesa Theatre
August 9th, 2001
Association of Health Physicists, Cleveland, OH
June 11th, 2001
First People's Festival, Montreal, Canada
June 15th, 2001
University of California - Santa Barbara
May 14th, 2001
Cape Town, South Africa
April 29th - May 5th, 2001
Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago
April 21st, 2001
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
April 20th, 2001
Shiprock Campus of Dine College
April 11th, 2001
Flagstaff, AZ du Bois Center Ballroom, NAU south campus
April 7th, 2001
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
March 29th, 2001
Albuquerque Public Library (Albuquerque, NM)
March 29th, 2001
Durango Film Festival
March 16th, 2001
Durango Film Festival
March 12th, 2001
Durango Film Festival
March 15th, 2001
California State - Fullerton
March 5th, 2001
Native Visions Film Festival, St. Petersburg, FL
February 26th, 2001
Day of Remembrance, University of Utah
January 27th, 2001
Santa Fe Film Festival, Santa Fe, NM
December 1st & 3rd, 2000
Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Washginton, DC
November 17th, 2000
US Geological Survey, Reston, VA
November 17th, 2000
Native American Film & Video Festival, New York
November 16th, 2000
American Anthropological Association Conference, San Francisco
November 16th, 2000
Landmark's Embarcadero Center Cinema
November 12th, 2000
American Indian Film & Video Festival, San Francisco
November 9th-16th, 2000
Texas Union Theatre, Austin, TX
November 8th, 2000
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, Washington Square Hall
November 3rd, 2000
Durango Film Society, Durango, CO
October 22nd, 2000
Denver Int'l Film Festival, CO
October 17, 2000
Mill Valley Film Festival, Mill Valley, CA
October 15, 2000
Navajo Studies Conference, San Juan College, Farmington, NM
September 28th, 2000
Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, IL
September 25th, 2000
NAES College, Chicago
September 24th, 2000
American Indian Center, Chicago
September 23rd, 2000
Old Town School of Folk Music Auditorium, Chicago IL
September 22nd, 2000
Reel Aboriginal Voices Film Fest, John Spotten cinema, Toronto
June 17st, 2000
University of Chicago
May 12th, 2000
American Indian Center, Chicago
May 3rd, 2000
Eastern Connecticut State University, Shafer Auditorium Willimantic, CT
April 26th, 2000
Alamo Drafthouse, Austin TX
April 19th, 2000
Arizona Film Festival, Tucson AZ
April 7th, 2000
International Art Center, Nations Hall Arizona Film Festival, Tucson AZ
April 9th, 2000
Navajo Nation Museum, Window Rock, AZ
April 1st, 2000
University of New Mexico - Gallup campus
March 31st, 2000
Monument Valley High School, Utah
March 31st, 2000
Post Effects, Chicago in High Definition theatre.
March 9th noon, 2000
The Public Interest Environmental Law Conference at the University of Oregon
March 4th & 5th, 2000
Sundance Film Festival (Premiere)
January 28, 2000
Above, left to right: Professor Leighton Peterson, Director Jeff Spitz, Elsie Mae, and Co-Producer Bennie Klain after a screening at The University of Miami (Ohio).
To arrange a booking, please contact Jeff Spitz either by email (jeff@groundswellfilms.org) or phone (773-771-7697).
The Return of Navajo Boy, along with its central subjects and producers are available for bookings at colleges, universities, high schools, conferences, museums and other venues year-round. Here's what some professors and others have to say about the film:
"It's hard to imagine teaching a course in Native American studies or culture without using this remarkable film. It documents real people and real tragedies and depicts Navajo culture with unusual realism and understanding. The film is instructive, thought-provoking, and heartwarming, and addresses many critical environmental issues in addition to illuminating so much regarding Navajo history and family life. Highly recommended!"
- Duane Champagne, Director, American Indian Studies Center, UCLA
"I used this remarkable documentary in a large U.S. history survey course comprised mostly of students from Southeast Asian and Central American immigrant-refugee communities... Although centered on the experiences of one Native American family, this film is an instructive text for all of us living through this era of pervasive social disasters and profound displacements."
- Art Hansen, Prof. of History and Director, Oral History Program, California State Univ., Fullerton
"This is what documentary filmmaking should be. The film repositions adversity and injustice involving a Navajo family from one of the most glorious places on earth, Monument Valley, Utah, to free the truth about the exploitation of America's Indians through illegal adoption, uranium mining, and Hollywood image makers, all of which profit shamelessly from Indians."
- Prof. Beverly R. Singer, Director, Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies, Univ. of New Mexico
"Teachers in our Facing History and Ourselves Summer Institute were moved to laughter and then tears by this powerful film, and are eager to use it in history, English, and science classrooms to enhance important conversations and lessons about identity and the power of labels, membership and participation in society, and issues of justice and judgment. Students will be fascinated and deeply moved by this family story. Even though the film runs 57 minutes and class periods are often shorter, middle school and high school teachers can definitely incorporate Navajo Boy into classroom periods by showing the film in two parts and by contextualizing and processing its important themes."
- Jack Weinstein, Director, San Francisco Bay Area, Facing History and Ourselves
To arrange a booking, please contact Jeff Spitz either by email (jeff@groundswellfilms.org) or phone (773-771-7697).
