PEMBROKE — The Unlocking Silent Histories: Lumbee Tribe Chapter has scheduled the screening of a series of cultural documentaries created by Lumbee Tribe youth.
The screening will take place 6 p.m. Thursday at Moore Hall on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
The presentation will include several film debuts that were made possible by funding from the First Nations Youth and Culture Grant and through a collaboration between the Lumbee Tribe Boys and Girls and Unlocking Silent Histories. afer the screenings, audiences will have an opportunity to engage in a discussion, an opportunity to hear the perspectives and experiences of youth participating in this project.
Unlocking Silent histories is an educational nonprofit created to amplify the voices and identities of indigenous youth through the art of documentary film making. The focus of the project is to strengthen the voices and identities of the indigenous youth with whom they work by supporting them in creating their own films. Each of the young people involved in the project selects a theme that they care about and through a video ethnography process, the youth film, edit and produce their own stories.
Program Participants and their Films:
— Anna Hunt: Lumbee Regalia.
— Dylan Hammonds: Pow Wows.
— Bryan Hunt: The Reel Identity: Disputing Common Misconceptions of Native Americans.
— Landon Oxendine: Lumbee Art.
— Reagan Cummings: Lumbee Identity: 1) How Native Women Keep their Culture Alive 2) Lumbee vs KKK.
— Samuel Hunt: UNCP: Old Main.
