No More Smoke Signals
A community radio station is the focal point for this exploration into the history and identity of the Lakota Nation and the American Indian Movement.
Concordia University (Montreal)
Monday November 17, 2008
Screening begins 19h30
Venue: Room H-110, 1455 de maisonneuve
Fanny Bräuning / Switzerland / 2008 / 90 min
This CANADIAN PREMIERE SCREENING is co-presented by RIDM, Montreal's International Documentary Film Festival and our friends at Barriere Lake Solidarity, who are starting up their own radio station, similar to the one featured in the film.
A 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.
CAST
Roxanne Two Bulls
John Trudell
Bruce Ellison
Buzi Two Lance
Derrick Janis
Tom Casey
Mary White
Melanie Janis
Ramona White Plume
Anpo White Plume
Ron His Horse Is Thunder
Ashley and Trevor Belt CREW
Written and directed by
Fanny Bräuning
Produced by
Kaspar Kasics / Fanny Bräuning
Cinematography
Pierre Mennel / Dieter Stürmer / Igor Martinovic
Sound
Gabriel Miller / Judy Karp / Jaime Reyes
Dramaturgy and editing
Kaspar Kasics
Additional editing
Myriam Flury / Petra Gräwe
Original music by
Tomas Korber
Sound mix
Denis Séchaud
Sound design
Kai Tebbel
