Filmmaker Julianna Brannum

Filmmaker Julianna Brannum

Meet filmmaker Julianna Brannum (Comanche) and preview her new documentary LaDonna Harris: Indian 101. Discuss the film with her and with Heather Whiteman Runs Him-Oleyte (Crow), joint legal counsel, executive branch, Apsáalooke Nation/Crow.

Thursday, November 12, 2009
Native Eyes Film Showcase Media Literacy Colloquium, 4–6 p.m.
Room 164 at UA's James E. Rogers College of Law
Free

Brannum’s documentary film is being made about Comanche activist LaDonna Harris, who led an extensive life of Native political and social activism, and is now passing on her traditional cultural and leadership values to a new generation of emerging Indigenous leaders. Director Julianna Brannum is a Rockefeller Foundation award winning filmmaker.

This program takes place in room 164 at UA's James E. Rogers College of Law, 1145 N. Mountain Ave (between Speedway & Helen).

Native Eyes Film Showcase is presented by Arizona State Museum and the UA's Hanson Film Institute in collaboration with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Native Eyes was made possible in part by a grant from the Arizona Humanities Council and with additional support from the Law College Association and the Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program at the James E. Rogers College of Law.

For filmmaker bios and more information: www.statemuseum.arizona.edu, 520-626-2973