Private Film Screening & Panel Discussion: Free Leonard Peltier
The Native American Advised Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation invites you to a private screening of Free Leonard Peltier. A panel discussion featuring Co-director Jesse Short Bull, Lead Advocate on the Free Leonard Peltier campaign and Film Participant Holly Cook Macarro, and award-winning producer and Native American Advised Fund Chair Jhane Myers will follow the two-hour film.
The entry donation is $25 per person and includes one small popcorn and one non-alcoholic beverage. Seating is limited; please RSVP by Monday, April 14.
About the film
In Free Leonard Peltier, acclaimed directors Jesse Short Bull and David France revisit the double life sentences handed down to Indian rights activist Leonard Peltier for the 1975 murder of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota. Using a mix of contemporary interviews, archival footage, and AI recreations, Short Bull and France bring alive the energy of the times, when the American Indian Movement (AIM) was rising up to protest centuries of injustice and oppression, and the US government was pushing back hard. Half a century ago, the US government put Leonard Peltier in prison for murder. This year, he’s now home.
Read national coverage:
- The Guardian: ‘He’s going home’: new film documents the fight to free Leonard Peltier
- Variety: Engaging Doc About Activist Accused of Killing Two FBI Agents in 1975 Is Timelier Than Ever
The Native American Advised Fund at Santa Fe Community Foundation wishes to extend gratitude and special thanks to the following donors for supporting this event: Gail & Joel Bernstein, Apryl Allen, Native American Jump Start, Maura Dhu and Wes Studi, Santa Fe International Film Festival, donors honoring Shokota Supply LLC, Georgette and Ernie Running Eagle, as well as Violet Crown Santa Fe.
Meet the people leading the conversation
Meet the people leading the conversation
Meet the people leading the conversation
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