Shimásání
2009, USA, 15 min, Digital Beta, Navajo, Canada Premiere
Director: Blackhorse Lowe
Presented as part of:
This Place I Stand
Shorts Program II
Oct 18 2009, 1:00PM
Al Green Theatre
Set in the 1920s on a tranquil Navajo reservation, a woman faces relinquishing her traditional lifestyle for a new life just over the mountain.
Blackhorse Lowe (Diné) was born in Farmington, New Mexico, near the Navajo reservation. He has directed a multitude of shorts, industrials and PSAs including Shush which was selected to screen at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and has since screened at over 20 festivals around the world. Lowe completed work on his feature-length debut 5th World which screened at Sundance 2005. Recent projects include Hey Indian which screened at imagineNATIVE 2007. In 2004 Filmmaker magazine named Lowe one of the 25 new faces of indie film.
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