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06/08/2017

New Trailer for #Documentary “Forget Winnetou! Going Beyond Native Stereotypes in Germany” (2017)

The new trailer for “Forget Winnetou!” is here. German version will be available very soon also. This is the longer, explanatory trailer, but we will do a short teaser (50-59s), too. Thank you to all the participants and constructive feedback, and we look forward to sharing the finished documentary with everyone in December!

Intro: “What does a world look like that respects indigenous peoples, that’s working to end racism, colonialism and intersecting oppression on a global scale? A part of that is stopping stereotyping, and Native stereotypes are some of the most pervasive and recognized, but most don’t know their origins or the real harm they do.”

Coming December 2017, “Forget Winnetou! Going Beyond Native Stereotypes in Germany”. Directed & Produced by Red Haircrow, Associate Producer Timo Kiesel. Learn more at https://forgetwinnetou.com/ and http://forgetwinnetou.de/.

**Video Editing:
Red Haircrow

**Video Footage:
Red Haircrow
Timo Kiesel
Mark Williams
Viveka Frost

**Still Photographs:
Jen Osborne
Bernd Sauer-Diete
Viveka Frost
Red Haircrow
Timo Kiesel

**Main Participants:
Kendall Old Elk and family
Stefka Ammon
Johnny Clyde
Johnnie Jae

Music:
“Deep Haze” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)-Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.

 

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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.”

 Recent promotional interviews:

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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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