OUR CATALOG
Ohero:kon - Under the Husk
A film by Katsitsionni Fox (Mohawk)
2017 | 27 minutes | Color | English/Mohawk | Order No. 171202
OHERO:KON - UNDER THE HUSK follows two Mohawk girls on their journey to become Mohawk women.
SYNOPSIS
PRESS
"The film is a gift to non-natives, giving us a view into a rich and sustainable culture which values girls and women."
"In an age where traditions are increasingly sacrificed for contemporary life, UNDER THE HUSK defiantly preserves the sacred."
"Empowering! Every women I've spoken to over the age of 25 has echoed the sentiment, "I wish we had something like that when i was growing up. Exponential healing for the whole family."
SCREENING HIGHLIGHTS AND AWARDS
- American Indian Film Festival
- ReFRAME Film Festival
- imagineNATIVE, Best Emerging Filmmaker
- Canadian Diversity Film Festival, Best Short Documentary
- Taos Shortz Film Festival
- First Nations Film and Video Festival
- Los Angeles Skins Film Festival
ABOUT FILMMAKER(S)
Katsitsionni has been making films since 2003 in the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne, where she resides. Her film “Ohero:kon - Under the Husk,” following the journey of two Mohawk girls as they take part in their traditional passage rites to becoming Mohawk Women, received funding from Vision Maker Media and was broadcast on many PBS stations. Katsitsionni received the Jane Glassco Award for Emerging Filmmaker at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival in 2016 as well as the Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking Award at LA Skins Fest in 2016. She produced a series of twelve short segments for REMATRIATION, a Native American women's online, multi-media magazine, that is focused on healing and empowerment of Native women through the sharing of their stories and successes. Her latest documentary, WITHOUT A WHISPER, is an untold story of how Native American women helped to inspire the struggle of American women’s suffrage movement in the United States. (09/20)