Tribeca All Access & NMAI Screening

Tribeca All Access and the National Museum of the American Indian invite you to attend a night of storytelling, featuring the work of Tribeca All Access alum Suzi Yoonessi and Native Network filmmakers Sally Kewayosh and Courtney M. Leonard. 

Suzi Yoonessi’s Dear Lemon Lima illustrates the daydreams, heartaches and high fives of a thirteen year old girl who galvanizes a crew of misfits to participate in the World Eskimo Indian Olympics.  This feature-length narrative was developed through the 2006 TAA program, supported with an equipment loan through TAA OnTrack, premiered at the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival and recently won the Audience Award at the Woodstock Film Festival. 

Dear Lemon Lima will be preceded by two shorts previously showcased in the Native American Film and Video Festival:

• Smoke Break, by Sally Kewayosh, offers a whimsical look at Native American identity and public perception.
   
• Untitled, by Courtney M. Leonard, documents how a young artist responds to the death of a 60-foot finback whale on the shores of the Shinnecock Reservation.

 

Courtney Leonard's Untitled and Sally Kewayosh's Smoke Break

Each film shares a different approach to stories told by or about Native culture. Filmmakers Courtney Leonard and Suzi Yoonessi will be in attendance to discuss their perspectives, following the screening.

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The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is the first national museum dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans. NMAI's Film and Video Center, located at the George Gustav Heye Center in New York City, presents screenings of Native productions and information services concerning Native films, video, radio, television, and electronic media throughout the Americas and Hawai’i.

The NMAI’s biennial Native American Film and Video Festival is internationally recognized as one of the major showcases of outstanding new Native works. Founded in 1979, it is one of the country’s longest-running Native film festivals, and the first to showcase productions from throughout the Americas and present new radio and multimedia.

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Tuesday, December 8th
7-9 PM
Tribeca Cinemas - 54 Varick Street

This event is FREE, but space is limited.  Please reserve your seat by responding to rsvptaa1@tribecafilminstitute.org