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All Roads Film Project

All Roads Screens at the United Nations

  • Date
    May 16, 2011
  • Location New York, NY
  • Price Screenings can be seen with Forum Registration

Past Event

Image from _Cry Rock_
Image from Cry Rock

Photograph courtesy the filmmaker

The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is an advisory body to the Economic and Social Council, with a mandate to discuss indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights.

All Roads screens two films at the 10th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, May 16–27, 2011.

Cry Rock
Director: Banchi Haanuse
Canada | 2010 | 29 minutes | English and Nuxalk with English subtitles
A poignant story about the significance of oral tradition in one community, disclosed beautifully in this blended live-action and animated short.

Tribal Journeys of the Pacific Northwest
Director: Gary Robinson
USA and Canada | 2009 | 15 minutes | English
An amazing annual gathering that honors the ancestral modes of travel and commerce culminates in powerful song and ceremony.

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