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February 2014
THE ROCKET (Australia /Laos)
Official submission for 2014 Academy Award, Best Foreign Film. A boy who is believed to bring bad luck leads his family (and a couple of ragged misfits) through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by war, the boy builds a giant rocket to prove he's not cursed and to enter the most lucrative but dangerous competition of the year: a rocket festival. Audience Award - AFI Festival, November 2013, L.A. Website and Trailer: http://www.kinolorber.com/film.php?id=1474…
Find out more »REEL INJUN – Native American Festival – Invite
Native American Film Fest invites Desert Film Society members as their complimentary guests at a 9:30AM screening. SPECIAL GUEST: N. Bird Runningwater Director, Native American and Indigenous Program – Sundance Institute Born of the Cheyenne and Mescalero Apache peoples, Runningwater was reared on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico. He has overseen the Native Lab of the Institute which has launched projects such as Four Sheets to the Wind, Sikumi, Miss Navajo, Shímásání, and Drunktown’s Finest. Runningwater has also established filmmaker Labs in New Zealand and…
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