John Trudell
Nacimiento : 1946-02-15, Omaha - Nebraska - USA
Muerte : 2015-12-08
Historia
John Trudell was an American Indian author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz. During most of the 1970s, he served as the chairman of the American Indian Movement, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
After his pregnant wife, three children and mother-in-law were killed in 1979 in a fire at the home of his parents-in-law on the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Nevada, Trudell turned to writing, music and film as a second career. He acted in three films in the 1990s. The documentary Trudell (2005) was made about him and his life as an activist and artist.
Himself
Documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history, a little-known story built around the incredible lives and careers of the some of the greatest music legends.
Self (archive footage)
A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island as told by principal organizer, Adam Fortunate Eagle. The story unfolds through Fortunate Eagle's remembrances, archival newsreel footage and photographs.
Indian #2
Boy (River Phoenix) es un viudo que vive como un ermitaño, esperando el fin del mundo, en una desértica planta de pruebas nucleares. Se distrae fabricando muñecos a los que otorga poderes mágicos. Cuando a una pareja de la alta sociedad de Hollywood (Judy Davis y Jonathan Pryce) se le avería el coche en pleno desierto, Boy los acoge en su refugio. Más tarde, el joven los hace sus prisioneros con la idea de empezar una nueva vida con la mujer como compañera. (FILMAFFINITY)
Himself
The evolution of the depiction of Native Americans in film, from the silent era until today, featuring clips from hundreds of movies and candid interviews with famous directors, writers and actors, Native and non-Native: how their image on the screen transforms the way to understand their history and culture.
self
Kili Radio - "Voice of the Lakota Nation" - is broadcast out of a small wooden house that sits isolated on a hill, lost in the vast countryside of South Dakota. It’s a place that’s long forgotten; lying at the crossroads between combat and hope, between the American dream and daily existence on America’s poorest reservation. Yet we find people like Roxanne Two Bulls, who’s trying to start over again on the land of her ancestors; the young DJ Derrick who’s discovering his gift for music; Bruce, the white lawyer who for thirty years has been trying to free a militant who’s been fighting for American Indian rights; and finally John Trudell, an old AIM activist who’s made a career for himself as a musician in Hollywood. Everything converges at Kili Radio. Instead of sending smoke signals the radio station transmits its own signals across a vast and ... (from the webpage)
Narrator
The film threads together four stories, taking us into the life of a stressed-out Mohawk stockbroker in Manhattan; a young Inupiat girl sent to live with her grandmother in Barrow, Alaska; a Navajo gang member who must find his core values in his reservation on the mesas of New Mexico; and a Quechua healer in Peru, attempting to save a sick child. Each story explores what it means to belong to a specific community. A Thousand Roads is a fictional work, produced by National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) to explore the human context of the NMAI’s collections. The film is striking visually, and presents through its beauty and its stories an imaginative entry into knowing about Native people living in the vast indigenous geography that comprises the Americas. Rather than presenting a conventional historical perspective, the film is composed of short contemporary fictions about individuals, grounding them in emotional truths to which an audience can easily relate.
Himself / Narrator (voice)
A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.
Music
A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.
Coyote
El protagonista principal, un joven indio rebelde y moderno, con una visión muy pesimista de la vida, va cambiando su actitud con cada cuento narrado por su abuelo en un viaje casi obligado hacia el Pow Wow. En el camino, el joven conocerá varias historias de las naciones Lakota, Cheyeene, Chinoock y Kiowa entre otras, repletas de espíritus de la naturaleza, animales parlantes, magia india, serpientes monstruosas, fantasmas, valor, amistad y el verdadero sentido de la vida que se agita dentro de cada una de ellas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Self - Santee Sioux
This doc explores "The Band" guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson's Native American background. Half Mohawk on his mother's side, the film follows him back to the Six Nations reservation in Ontario where he spent summers growing up and picked up his first guitar. The resulting album, "Contact From the Underworld of Red Boy", draws on his childhood First Nation influences and includes musical collaborations wth Native artists such as John Trudell, Rita Coolidge and Buffy Ste Marie.
Randy Peone
Una reserva india. Victor Joseph recibe la noticia de la muerte de su padre, que les abandonó a él y a su madre hace años. Sin muchas ganas, emprende el viaje para hacerse cargo de los restos de su padre. Le acompaña un tipo con un don para la narración, que le costea el viaje. Este interesante drama sigue la vida de los indios americanos en la actualidad, un tema poco explorado en el cine.
Tony
Un vagabundo acude a la sala de urgencias de un hospital de Nueva York. El doctor Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant) observa que presenta extrañísimos síntomas que le resultan inexplicables.
Johnny Redfeather
En las plataformas de petróleo de Alaska, Forrest Taft (Steven Seagal, que debuta como director) trabaja como especialista en la extinción de incendios en los pozos de petróleo. Sin embargo, mucho más peligroso que eso es enfrentarse a Michael Jennings, presidente de una compañía petrolífera que ha obtenido enormes beneficios a costa de poner en peligro el medio ambiente. En esa batalla Taft cuenta con el apoyo de una activista nativa y de cualquiera que se oponga a la compañía.
Music Consultant
On June 26, 1975, during a period of high tensions on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, two FBI agents were killed in a shootout with a group of Indians. Although several men were charged with killing the agents, only one, Leonard Peltier, was found guilty. This film describes the events surrounding the shootout and suggests that Peltier was unjustly convicted.
Himself - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement
On June 26, 1975, during a period of high tensions on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, two FBI agents were killed in a shootout with a group of Indians. Although several men were charged with killing the agents, only one, Leonard Peltier, was found guilty. This film describes the events surrounding the shootout and suggests that Peltier was unjustly convicted.
Jimmy Looks Twice
El joven y astuto agente del cuerpo del FBI Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer) es destinado a Dakota del Sur para investigar el asesinato de un indio Sioux. El policía tiene un oscuro secreto que nunca ha revelado a nadie. El motivo de la elección de su destino se debe a algo que siempre ha querido ocultar: él sabe que la sangre india también corre por sus venas.
Louie Short Hair
Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe. On the way, they begin to reconnect to their spiritual heritage.
