The CANADIAN PREMIERE SCREENING of No More Smoke Signals is co-presented by RIDM, Montreal’s International Documentary Film Festival and Barriere Lake Solidarity.
| “ Concordia University (Montreal) Monday November 17, 2008 Screening begins 19h30 Venue: Room H-110, 1455 de maisonneuve Fanny Bräuning / Switzerland / 2008 / 90 minA lone radio station on a small hill in South Dakota, founded in the 1970s by activists of the North American Indian resistance movement: KILI RADIO – “Voice of the Lakota Nation”. A forgotten place between struggle and hope, between Indian legends and everyday life on the poorest reservation in the USA. But there is Roxanne Two Bulls, who wants to begin a new life on the land of her ancestors, and the young DJ, Derrick, who discovers his talent for music at KILI. There is also Bruce, Caucasian, an attorney who has attempted to get an Indian activist released from prison for the past 30 years. And a sudden appearance by the former AIM activist John Trudell, who launched a career as a musician in Hollywood. Everything converges at KILI RADIO, and instead of sending smoke signals KILI transmits its signals throughout the vast and magnificent landscape, with a delightful combination of humour and melancholy. Native hip hop and broken windshields: pride has been restored – it really is OK to be Lakota. ” |
It is a beautiful film based around the story of KILI radio station that touches on the history of Pine Ridge, Leonard Peltier, Wounded Knee Massacre, the Black Hills. This screening was the North American premiere, with the director Fanny Bräuning, and one of the characters from the film, the lawyer, Bruce present for a post-screening discussion. The 1980 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Russell Means, and the Republic of Lakotah Declaration of Independence came up in the discussion. Fanny Bräuning said that she was inspired to make the film after reading Leonard Peltier’s book, Prison Writings: My Life is My Sun Dance.
Lakota declares its Sovereignty
[Photomedia Forum post by T.Neugebauer from Nov 17, 2008]