Join the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Cinematic Arts & Technology’s program at the Violet Crown Cinema in Santa Fe for the Twelfth Annual Student Filmmaker Showcase. The showcase features a selection of the best films produced during the 2023–2024 academic year, including senior projects. A Q&A with the filmmakers and a presentation of the Audience Award will follow the screening. Advanced tickets are recommended and available on the Violet Crown website.

Official Selections

• Camera Roll, Director: Juliana Brown Eyes (Oglala Lakota)
• Gerry Carthy: The Castlebar Cowboy, Director: Michael Carthy
• The Last Western, Director: Echota Killsnight (Northern Cheyenne and United
• Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians)
• This Means Forever, Director: Brandon Martinez (Jicarilla Apache)
• Carin, Director: Ethan Nopah (Navajo Nation)
• Hook, Director: Jordan M. Martin (Blackfeet Tribe)
• Poetic Beauty, Director: Ashley Reese
• My Friend Andrew, Director: Kendrick Whiteman (Northern Arapaho)
• Stories From the Tohono O’odham Nation Tribe, Director: Chris Rios (Tohono O’odham Nation)
• With Heart, Director: Avery Hale (Mandan, Hidatsa, San Carlos Apache, and San Felipe Pueblo)
• Unearthing the Past, Director: Rhyka Nelson (Iñupiaq)
• Broken Mirrors, Director: Desmond Hayes

The event will take place at the Violet Crown Cinema at 1606 Alcaldesa St, Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at 6:30 pm (MDT). For more information, please contact Cinematic Arts & Technology Department Chair Kahlil Hudson (Tlingit) at kahlil.hudson@iaia.edu.

Photograph by Lonnie R. Begaye (Diné)