Cherokee writer, director and filmmaker Randy Redroad will screen his award-winning film “The Doe Boy” on Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. in the University of New Mexico Anthropology Lecture Hall 163. Redroad will also discuss his upcoming project, “Moccasin Flats.”
Photo: Randy Redroad
Redroad is among the new generation of independent Native American fiction filmmakers. His debut feature film “The Doe Boy” received multiple awards, including the NHK International Filmmaker's Award at the Sundance Film Festival and the Best First Time Director Award at Taos Talking Pictures Festival.
Set in the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma, “The Doe Boy” tells the story of Hunter, a young man of mixed parentage, and his journey to find his own identity while facing love, death and the perils of his hemophilia.
Redroad is based in Los Angeles and is a member of a special film program at the upcoming 2006 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. His work has been featured on the Sundance Channel, PBS, Learning Channel and IFC.
This event is sponsored by UNM Native American Studies and is free and open to the public. For more information, contact NAS at 277-3917 or e-mail: nasinfo@unm.edu.
Contact: Laurie Mellas, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: lmellas@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at January 23, 2006 04:55 PM