Martin could we show this at the Capri?
From: Justin Nathanson
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Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007
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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.
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.
Funny, moving. . .
inspiring film about a little pageant on the Navajo nation.
Michael Moore
Justin Nathanson
Executive Director,
ChasDOC
The
The ChasDOC Film Society
"Bin Yah"
www.ChasDOC.org
843. 277-0485
cell917. 519-6845