Three Indigenous womxn artists heal their past and reclaim their spirits through art, including the daughter of an influential Native American activist who makes prayer beads to address the grief of her stepmother and siblings’ murder.
SYNOPSIS
She has a young face
An old face
She carries herself well
In all ages
She survives all man has done.
- “See the Woman” John Trudell
See the Women follows three Indigenous womxn who engage in individual artistic practices to enact healing. Each creative medium provides a lens through which the women share their personal stories, both tragic and uplifting. Stories which sometimes intertwine into a multi-dimensional history of the American Indian Movement.
As each artist shares their story and artistic practice, the film breaks the romantic ideals of healing and activism. In the history of Indigenous liberation, who has been left behind? And how do we protect those to come? The film creates space for the womxn and youth who have been silenced in the past to finally be seen and heard.
Alongside the protagonists of the film, a chorus of voices speak to the past, present, and future of Indigenous womxn and children. These truths include the effects of intergenerational trauma, the role of men and nature in womxn’s reclamation, the truth of Missing Murdered Indigenous Women, and the forgotten Indigenous and ancient tools to face both grief and love.
See the Women seeks to empower womxn and children to reclaim their identity, spirit, and place on Earth.
ABOUT FILMMAKER(S)
Director Alana Saab
Alana is an author and screenwriter whose experimental work speaks to collective and individual trauma. A new LGBTQ+ voice, Alana’s novel Please Stop Trying to Leave Me is published with Vintage Books, Penguin Random House. Her screenplay, “Ocean Gray,” has been recognized over six times as an award winner for various film festivals.
Director Tara Evonne Trudell
Tara Trudell is of Santee, Rarámuri, Mexican, and Spanish descent. She received her BFA in Video and Audio graduating from New Mexico Highlands University in 2014. While in school Tara was awarded the Seabury Fellowship and this allowed her to work on her first poetic narrative short documentary, The Poem Home. This was later accepted into the American Indian Film Festival in 2013. While in college in 2012, Tara also won the student category for Panasonic AF-100 film contest for her short video, Word. Tara is committed to utilizing all forms of artistic expression and reclamation to express and address social justice issues and healing.
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