The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital is the world’s premier showcase of environmental films. This annual festival, year-round programs and online resources advance public understanding of the environment through the power of film. This year, the National Museum of the American Indian is presenting Powerlands (USA, 2022, 75 mins.) and Weckuwapok (The Approaching Dawn) (USA, 2022, 13 mins.)

Powerlands
USA, 2022, 75 min)
Director: Camille Manybeads Tso (Navajo)

A young Navajo filmmaker investigates displacement of Indigenous people and devastation of the environment caused by the same chemical companies that have exploited the land where she was born. On this personal and political journey, she learns from Indigenous activists across three continents.

Preceded by:
Weckuwapok (The Approaching Dawn)
(USA, 2022, 13 min)
Directors: Lauren Stevens, Tracy Rector, Kavita Pillay, Roger Paul, Chris Newell, Adam Mazo, Taylor Hensel, Jacob Bearchum

On these traditional homelands, Waponahkik (the people of the dawn land) bring gratitude to the sun where it first looks our way. Songs and stories invite us to accept the new day and put behind us any harm done the day before.

Director Camille Manybeads in attendance.