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Category: Announcements

16/07/2017

“Forget Winnetou!” Documentary Trailer Selected for Film Festival Screening

Pleased to announce the trailer for our upcoming Forget Winnetou- A Documentary Film has been selected for screening at the Avanca Film Festival, 26-30 July 2017!

To view our first official trailer, you can do so here.

Tagline: What does a world that respects Indigenous peoples look like, that’s working towards ending racism, colonialism, and other intersecting oppression on a global scale? -Andrea Marcos

Most films about Native Americans focus exclusively on Native experience in North America, however stereotypes of the original peoples of Turtle Island have spread around the world even as more Natives are living or working abroad. And Germany has one of the most notorious and beloved, sometimes fiercely defended symbol named “Winnetou”, a stereotypical American Indian created by German author Karl May in the late 19th century.

Decades later, despite its inherent racism and colonial nature, the heavily Eurocentrized  fictional native and his pseudo Apache tribe are still recreated in films spreading misinformation to new generations. Although surely not the intention, it is still culturally abusive practices that deliberately ignore Natives and others who object, and minimize and/or dismiss multiple research studies on the harm of such behaviors to everyone in society. This must end.

“Just because it’s fiction, doesn’t mean it’s harmless.”

“Reeducating the resistant.”

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27/05/2017

“A Long Time Ago on a Reservation Far, Far Away”-June 2nd at Indigenous Pop Culture Conference

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June 2nd at Saarland University,  Red Haircrow will be giving a presentation at the Indigenous Pop Culture conference, topic is native films and filmmakers and going beyond the stereotypical limitations of Hollywood or other non-Native industries by representation their cultures, peoples, history and future, fiction or non-fiction.

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23/05/2017

Wearable Support for Upcoming #Documentary “Forget Winnetou! Going Beyond Native Stereotypes in Germany”

Just a few examples of the different styles and colors available for our Teespring campaign (t-shirts, totes & mugs) Forget Winnetou Film Project. To help gain funds for completing, distributing and advertising our upcoming documentary, while giving supporters a visible way to raise awareness not only on the issue of native stereotyping and its effects, but also our film. Please visit and check out our storefront, products ship worldwide!

“Forget Winnetou! Going Beyond Native Stereotypes in Germany” is a film project by Red Haircrow & Timo Kiesel.  It is currently in production, and will combine live-action scenes, interviews and news clips with native designs, graphics and short animated sequences.” Learn more about the film project and details by visiting our website forgetwinnetou.com.

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28/04/2017

June 2nd in Saarbrücken, Germany at the “Indigenous Pop Culture” Conference


On June 2nd, Red Haircrow give a presentation at the “Indigenous Popular Culture Conference” at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. The conference is titled: “A Long Time Ago on a Reservation Far, Far Away: Contemporary Indigenous Popular Culture across the Globe.”

MY ABSTRACT: “While many people express growing boredom with Hollywood and other western film studios producing sub-standard, unoriginal movies or rebooting television series or films of the past, the Native indie film industry is booming. Despite the low ebb of unique productions to which even Hollywood admits, scripts by people of color, including Natives, continue to be rejected and ignored primarily because they don’t fit the stereotypical material usually churned out about them by others.

Thus, more Native filmmakers today than ever before are writing, filming and sharing their own work, by Natives for everyone, representing and presenting themselves and their stories, whether fiction or non-fiction. More Native artists and filmmakers are collaborating and coming together in events, such as the Indigenous Comic-Con whose inaugural celebration took place in November 2016, to encourage and promote each other. It is also open to the public, and all are welcome.

Discussion will include why films about Natives made by Natives so important; what the issues and benefits are both for Native individuals, nations and communities, and non-Natives; and the intersectionality of native films with social justice, activism and sovereignty. Material will include visual examples of contemporary native films, filmmakers, production companies and organizations, such as A Tribe Called Geek that report on, encourage and promote contemporary artists and filmmakers.”

More details about the event, here.

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