Martin could we show this at the Capri?

 

 

From: Justin Nathanson [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 4:24 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Free Film Screening Thursday - "MISS NAVAJO"

 



 



 

INDEPENDENT LENS, etv & ChasDOC

 

co-present

 

"MISS NAVAJO"

 

Free Public Screening

 

Thursday, October 25 at 6:30 p.m.

 

Charleston County Public Library, 68 Calhoun Street, 2nd Floor

 

 

We hope youll be able to join us for the October INDEPENDENT LENS sneak
preview at the Charleston County Public Library. Our film this month is
MISS NAVAJO, an affectionate and engaging look at the annual Miss Navajo
pageant. Directed by Billy Luther, whose own mother was crowned Miss
Navajo 1966, the film reveals the inner beauty of the young women who
compete in this celebration of womanhood. Not only must contestants
exhibit poise and grace as those in typical pageants, they must also
answer tough questions in Navajo and demonstrate proficiency in skills
essential to daily tribal life: fry-bread making, rug weaving and sheep
butchering!

 

The film has made film festival appearances at the 2007 Sundance Film
Fesitval as well as the Traverse City Film Festival, hosted by filmmaker
Michael Moore, where it won the Special Founders Prize.

 

If Donald Trump wants to revamp his Miss USA pageant, he might check out
MISS NAVAJO. New York Daily News

 

Funny, moving. . . inspiring film about a little pageant on the Navajo
nation.

Michael Moore

 

 

 



 

Justin Nathanson

Executive Director, ChasDOC

The Charleston Documentary Film Festival

The ChasDOC Film Society

"Bin Yah"

www.ChasDOC.org

PO BOX 14097

Charleston, SC 29422

843. 277-0485

cell917. 519-6845