4th Annual Southwest Native American Film Festival

I received word today that the preview clip for POISON WIND will screen at the Coconino Center for the Arts in Flagstaff on October 6th between 2 and 4:30 pm! We have a 6 minute clip that is being shown as a work in progress. (At this point our final cut will be running almost an hour in length.) Co-producer Norman Patrick Brown and I will be in attendance...as will Damon Watahomigie from Havasupai. Music news: Dave Montour of Clan/Destine has been awesome and the song he has written for the film is tentivly titled: 'Breeze in the Wind.' I meet with Dave again on Monday morning and I'll post more on that next week. The POISON WIND clip had an unscheduled screening this afternoon at the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, AZ. A room filled with almost 100 or so Faculty and Deans gave the clip an amazing response, which I am very thankful for. This is the school that has donated the Hi Def cameras and the editing equipment to us..so the documentary could be made. This coming week their PR team will be sending out a press release for the film and I will post about that when I have a copy.
This past week we went back up to the Grand Canyon to interview a member of the Walapai. Uranium mining interests have been pressuring them since this past Spring about mining on their land. This has to be stopped.
It seems right that the film began in the Grand Canyon when I met Damon there almost a year ago. Now it has come back to the Canyon with our final interview....full circle.