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Children of the Setting Sun's 6th annual Treaty Day Film Festival (TDFF) is coming up! TDFF was created in remembrance of the 1855 Point Elliot Treaty. It is celebrated today to unify and educate the community on Indigenous perspectives and the issues we face today. This year's festival takes place on Jan. 20th, 2024 and will have a shorts program and a feature length program!

10:00am - Shorts program:

Opening and Blessing (10 mins)

Jason Laclair: Story Pole (8 Mins)
Jason LaClair, a Lummi tribal member and artist, embarks on a journey to complete a ceremonial (totem) pole originally begun by carver Samuel Cagey, Jr., a beloved Lummi tribal elder whose health was poorly impacted by COVID-19. Jason’s work is intended to honor and benefit the work of Cagey’s carving, and complete his story.

Walking Two Worlds (29 Mins)
19-year-old Quannah Chasinghorse, and their mother, Jody Potts-Joseph, take a stand to defend their sacred homelands and way of life while breaking barriers in Indigenous representation.

The Water Walker (13 Mins)
This documentary follows teenaged Anishinaabe water activist Autumn Peltier as she travels to the UN to preserve the future of Indigenous communities.

Weaving The Path
This film explores the life of Debra Sparrow together with the cultural and spiritual meaning that weaving has had in her life and the Coast Salish communities.

The Sound (35 Mins)
The Sound is a coming-of-age TV drama created by Children of the Setting Sun Productions that follows a group of Indigenous Coast Salish teens as they travel through their ancestral waterways in a traditional canoe. Their journey starts as an escape from hurt and trauma, but soon becomes a purposeful route to transformation and self-discovery.

12:45pm - Feature film program:

Opening and Blessing (10 mins)

Frybread Face And Me (83 Mins)
Two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds bond during a summer herding sheep on their grandmother's ranch in Arizona while learning more about their family's past and themselves.

Date: January 20, 2024

Location: The Pickford Cinema, 1416 Cornwall Ave, Bellingham, WA 98225

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