Emmy Award winningDawnland Indigenous Stories | New England History
A documentary directed by Adam Mazo and Ben Pender-Cudlip
In partnership with
Emmy winning documentary, Dawnland tells the untold story of indigenous child removal in which the stakes of family separation policy are no less than cultural survival. Going behind the scenes of the Maine-Wabanaki truth and reconciliation commission.
Bright Family Screening Room (BFSR)
559 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111
Dates
Mar 09, 2024 | 2:00 pm
Details
1 hour 24 min
$12
Tickets
Join the Discussion
Q&A with filmmaker and community leaders following the screening.
Adam Mazo – Co-Director, Dawnland
Ronee Penoi – Interim Executive Director of the Office of the Arts & ArtsEmerson
Director of Artistic Programming
Lisa Simmons – Moderator; Director/Artistic Director, Roxbury International Film Festival
Artists
Adam Mazo
Adam Mazo is the co-director and a producer of Dawnland and First Light (short doc, Camden, 2015). His hour-long film Coexist focuses on a government experiment in forced reconciliation after genocide in Rwanda. It aired on public television and WORLD Channel in 2014. He co-founded and leads the Upstander Project. Since 2009 the organization has been making films and learning resources, and leading teacher workshops to help people move toward being upstanders.
Ben Pender-Cudlip
Ben Pender-Cudlip is the co-director and cinematographer of Dawnland. He is the director and photographer of over a dozen short documentary films, including the award-winning First Light(2015) with Adam Mazo. Together on Dawnland, they are Points North Fellows and Good Pitch alumni. Ben is also the winner of the Salem Film Festival’s Doc-a-chusetts Pitch with his new film, Tethys, a feature documentary in production about artist Bob Schuler’s 30-year quest to bury his art at the bottom of the sea. “
Partners
Shared Stories is a spring film series that seeks to build community, shared conversation, and experiences through cinema. This series aspires to create a shared space to find commonality across experiences, and encourage the exchange of stories and ideas. Presented by ArtsEmerson in collaboration with the Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF), CineFest Latino Boston, and the Roxbury International Film Festival (RoxFilm).
New England’s Largest Asian American Film Festival
The Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF) empowers Asian Americans through film by showcasing Asian American experiences and serving as a resource to filmmakers and the Greater Boston Community. BAAFF is a co-production of Asian American Resource Workshop and ArtsEmerson.
The Roxbury International Film Festival (ROXFILM) is the largest festival in New England celebrating people of color around the world. Over nine days, the festival presents narrative and documentary features, shorts, animation, experimental, and youth films. The festival holds workshops, panel discussions, discussions with filmmakers, and networking opportunities. ROXFILM is a competitive festival.
CineFest Latino Boston LLC is an annual film festival conducted in Boston, highlighting stories by and about Latinos. The festival is committed to using the power of film to break stereotypes, bring cultures and communities together and reveal the complex issues affecting the Latinx community in the United States, as well as communities in Latin America and Spain.
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