Article: Native women filmmakers capture hearts in Taos: Taos Talking Picture Festival opens wounds, offers remedies

Norrell, Brenda
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
05-03-2000
Native women filmmakers capture hearts in Taos: Taos Talking Picture
Festival opens wounds, offers remedies

By Brenda Norrell

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TAOS, N.M. - Native women filmmakers captured hearts at the Taos Talking
Picture Festival, with the horrors of lost and dispossessed Aboriginal
children in Canada, then with the healing humor of Charlie Hill.

"I try to turn poison into medicine," Hill says in the documentary "On and
Off the Res with Charlie Hill."

"There is so much magic in the healing nature of laughter," said Sandra
Osawa who produced the documentary of the Oneida comedian.

Native filmmakers said the battlefield in Canada is within ...

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