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Article: Indigenous Women Filmmakers Network
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- Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
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- July 28, 2004
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Morrell, Brenda
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
07-28-2004
SEATTLE - Indigenous women filmmakers are fighting back, organizing a
network to share stories of who they are, mentor one another and battle
together the racism and discrimination that excludes them in Hollywood and
the film industry as a whole.
"We have to own the business, how else can we empower ourselves," said
Navajo independent producer Arlene Bowman, co-organizer of the Indigenous
Women Filmmakers Network. "The mainstream people in the film and television
business ignore us."
"We have no voice in the United States. The First Nations in Canada are
more advanced in that way and so are other indigenous filmmakers such as
the Maori ...