17th Native Spirit Festival #NSFF2023 (in-person & online) launches on 12th October (Indigenous Peoples Day, Americas) with selected dates through to 7th November celebrating International Inuit Day and Native American Heritage Month.
All film styles and storytelling welcome — Experimental, Animation, Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror & Sci-fi, Documentary, Music, Dance, Artists', viral and low-budget work; films in Indigenous Languages and Future Generations filmmakers up to 20yrs.
Native Spirit Festival is the UK's first and only annual Independent festival to promote Native Filmmakers, Media and Artists, celebrating Indigenous Languages and Narrative Sovereignty. The festival is part of Native Spirit Foundation, founded in 2005 by Mapuche leader Freddy Trequil to promote knowledge and awareness of Indigenous cultures and longer term projects supporting Community-run education in Native Schools. Freddy states "All the [activists] have come to the conclusion that one objective of making video, radio and television is for the other culture to know us. It is necessary to create a bridge to share our culture in an educational form, without losing our identity."
Native Spirit Taiwan (established 2019) runs independently every November on Paiwan land. contact nativespirittaiwan@gmail.com
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Previous NSFF programmes: https://issuu.com/nativespirituk
Native Spirit Festival is non-competitive.