John Trudell

John Trudell

Рождение : 1946-02-15, Omaha - Nebraska - USA

Смерть : 2015-12-08

История

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.

Профиль

John Trudell

Фильмы

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
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.
Taking Alcatraz
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.
Dark Blood
Indian #2
Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's death, Dark Blood tells the story of Boy, a young widower living on a nuclear testing site in the desert. Boy is waiting for the end of the world and carves Katchina dolls that supposedly contain magical powers. Boy's solitude is interrupted when a Hollywood jet-set couple who are travelling across the desert become stranded after their car breaks down. The couple are rescued by Boy, who then holds them prisoner because of his desire for the woman and his ambition to create a better world with her.
Индейвуд
Himself
Канадский документальный фильм 2009 года, снятый режиссером Кри Нилом Даймондом, Кэтрин Бейнбридж и Иеремией Хейсом, в котором исследуется изображение коренных американцев в кино. Рил индеец иллюстрирован отрывками из классических и современных изображений коренных жителей в голливудских фильмах и интервью с режиссерами, актерами и историками кино, в то время как режиссер Даймонд путешествует по Соединенным Штатам, чтобы посетить знаковые места в кино, а также историю американских индейцев.
No More Smoke Signals
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)
A Thousand Roads
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.
Trudell
Himself / Narrator (voice)
A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.
Trudell
Music
A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.
Властелин легенд
Coyote
Почти столетний Пит «Мчащийся Конь» хранит историю своего индейского племени. Но его 17 -летний внук Шейн, член уличной банды «Псы-воины», далек от всего этого. Лишь задолжав своим товарищам по банде крупную сумму денег, он согласился отвезти дедушку на ежегодный совет племен в штат Нью-Мексико, за много сотен миль от родной Южной Дакоты. По пути Пит рассказывает ему легенды племени, которые Шейн должен обязательно запомнить и передать своим потомкам. Эта поездка навсегда изменит его жизнь...
Making A Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
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.
Дымовые сигналы
Randy Peone
У двух приятелей - Виктора и Томаса - было огненное детство. Томас слышал разные версии о нем, и во всех его выбрасывали из окна. Такое героическое, но неопределенное прошлое вызывало некоторое смятение в его душе, а порой, в коротких перепалках с Виктором, приводило и к мордобою. Но эти схватки за правду не отдаляли друзей, хотя иногда привязчивый Томас и получал совет «найти себе девушку». Как бы там ни было, но им предстояло первое в жизни совместное путешествие, и беспечность Томаса совсем не вызывалавосторга у его более сурового друга...
Крайние меры
Tony
Молодой нью-йоркский врач Гай Лютан узнает шокирующие детали о частных медицинских экспериментах своего коллеги — доктора Лоуренса Майрика и, как следствие, теряет работу. Но это не останавливает Гая в борьбе со своим могущественным противником.
В смертельной опасности
Johnny Redfeather
Форрест Тафт — это человек, который всегда выбирает только одну сторону. Тафт — специалист по борьбе с пожарами нефтяных скважин, но ему приходится вступать в еще более горячую битву, когда он сталкивается с Майклом Дженнингсом — хозяином нефтяной компании, на одной из буровых которой произошла авария, и нефть выливается в океан. Но нажива для таких людей превыше всего. И тогда Тафт дает им понять: если они причинят вред земле, которую он любит, они — в смертельной опасности.
Incident at Oglala
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.
Incident at Oglala
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.
Громовое сердце
Jimmy Looks Twice
Агента ФБР Рэя, в чьих жилах течет индейская кровь, отправляют в резервацию расследовать убийство, в котором подозревается борец за права этого немногочисленного народа. Там он знакомится с местным шерифом и вождем племени. По мере того, как Рэй приближается к цели, он все меньше уверен в виновности подозреваемого. В конце концов, агент понимает, что правительство США пытается его руками устранить неугодного человека. И в этот момент в нем просыпается Индеец, чье сердце не терпит несправедливости и лжи.
Powwow Highway
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.