John Trudell
Nascimento : 1946-02-15, Omaha - Nebraska - USA
Morte : 2015-12-08
História
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
Filmado em 1993, mas nunca concluído devido à morte de River Phoenix, Dark Blood conta a história de Boy, um jovem viúvo que vivia em um local de testes nucleares no deserto. O jovem está esperando o fim do mundo e esculpe bonecas Katchina que supostamente contêm poderes mágicos. A solidão do garoto é interrompida quando um casal socialite de Hollywood que está viajando pelo deserto fica preso depois que seu carro quebra. O casal é resgatado por Boy, que os mantém prisioneiros por causa de seu desejo pela mulher e sua ambição de criar um mundo melhor com ela.
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
Em Dakota do Sul, em uma reserva indígena, um velho contador de histórias indiano pede a seu neto Shane, que está em apuros devido a dinheiro para alguns vilões, levar seu velho pônei e ele a Albuquerque para a grande reunião de índios. Enquanto viaja, o vovô conta histórias misteriosas de amor, amizade e magia.
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
Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family, and Victor hasn't seen his father for 10 years. When Victor hears Arnold has died, Thomas offers him funding for the trip to get Arnold's remains.
Tony
Guy Luthan é um médico inglês que, trabalhando em um hospital de Nova York, começa a fazer perguntas quando repara que o corpo de um homem que morreu na emergência desapareceu. Na verdade não há nem registros de sua entrada. Ao tentar descobrir a verdade, o médico encontra pistas que têm relação com um eminente cirurgião, mas logo se vê em perigo, pois algumas pessoas não querem que os segredos do hospital venham à tona.
Johnny Redfeather
Alasca. Um lugar de belezas naturais, habitado por nativos que vivem em harmonia com o meio ambiente. Para a Companhia de Petróleo Aegis, o local perfeito para explorar as riquezas do solo... não importa a que preço. Quando o especialista em incêndios Forrest Taft descobre que a empresa onde trabalha planeja destruir a paisagem local e ameaçar a vida da população, ele decide que é hora de fazer alguma coisa. Ao lado da bela ativista Masu, ele entra em conflito com os interesses do presidente da Aegis, Michael Jennings, iniciando uma disputa de vida ou morte.
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
Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer), um agente do FBI de ascendência indígena, é escalado para investigar um assassinato em uma reserva Sioux. As evidências apontam para William Dawes (Fred Dalton Thompson), um ativista radical, mas pouco a pouco Levoi monta as peças de um quebra-cabeças que mostra que o governo pode estar prestes a condenar um homem inocente.
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.
