September 2009
In This Issue
NAPT Job Opening: Director of Marketing
Healing Circle Community Radio Workshop
VisionMaker Film Festival
Jim Thorpe: World's Greatest Athlete
September Special: Waterbuster
Interview with To Brooklyn and Back Filmmakers: Tarbell and Rickard
NAPT Job Opening: Director of Marketing
Job Opening details:
https://employment.unl.edu

The Director of Marketing for Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT) develops, implements and evaluates marketing plans and strategies for NAPT products and services. Must be able to plan and manage marketing budgets and campaigns, oversee the design and publication of all promotional materials, and develop and implement market analysis strategies. Also, assist with fundraising strategies.
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UNL is committed to a pluralistic campus community through affirmative action, equal opportunity, work-life balance, and dual careers.


Healing Circle Community Radio Workshop

Apply Now. Space is Limited.
Deadline Sept. 25

Contribute to the development of an innovative health promotion radio drama, Healing Circle, being created for distribution on Native radio stations across the country.   Following the principles of entertainment education, Healing Circle blends important health messages into an entertaining format.

Work with acclaimed professionals to learn more about the principles of entertainment education, contribute to the development of Healing Circle and discuss your community's health priorities at the Healing Circle Community Radio Workshop taking place at the Nativo Lodge in Albuquerque, New Mexico on October 10-13, 2009.

For more information: http://www.nativetelecom.org

VisionMaker Film Festival
October 30 - November 5

Vision Maker Film Festival

The 3rd Biennial Vision Maker Film Festival is a project of Native American Public Telecommunications and the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. This year, we will add another presentation partner, the Sheldon Art Museum.
The Nebraska State Penitentiary will feature also new NAPT documentary, "Video Letters from Prison".

For more info: www.nativetelecom.org/festival
Jim Thorpe: The World's Greatest Athlete
Coming to Public Television in November 2009

Jim ThorpeBeginning with Thorpe's boyhood at the Sac and Fox Nation to his rise to athletic stardom at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, filmmakers chronicle Thorpe's win of two gold medals at the 1912 Summer Olympics and his fall from athletic grace.

Preview the trailer.

Educational DVD for use in the classroom now available, includes an educational guide.
 
September Special: Waterbuster

vmfA personal story of how a multimillion dollar project displaced the Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara Nation in North Dakota. Producer J. Carlos Peinado returns to the Fort Berthold Reservation and discovers stories of the past as he assesses tribal identity. Through interviews and archival footage, a uniquely Native American perspective emerges, giving light to a portrait of resilience and survival in the face of catastrophic change.

Home Video price $23.96

Educational Video price $180

 

Producer Profile


Reaghan Tarbell

Paul Rickard
Paul Rickard

Interview with
To Brooklyn and Back Filmmakers:

Tarbell and Rickard

 
Filmmakers Reaghan Tarbell (Mohawk) and Paul Rickard (Cree) talk about their collaboration on the film To Brooklyn and Back: A Mohawk Journey.  The film uncovers the lives of Mohawk steelworkers in New York and their families as told from the perspective of women in the community.

To Brooklyn and Back: A Mohawk Journey
airs November 2 on PBS stations.

Read the article.
Download a MP3 of the interview.

Listen to the webcast of the interview on AIROS:

9/25/09: 8am, 2pm, 8am
9/26/09: 9am, 3pm, 9pm
9/27/09: 9am, 3pm, 9pm
9/28/09: 10am, 4pm, 10pm
 
All times are Eastern Time.
Other Fall 2009 Titles
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska

Jim Thorpe: The World's Greatest Athlete

Power Paths

River of Renewal
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