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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Lena Carr [<a href="mailto:indsmflm@yahoo.com">mailto:indsmflm@yahoo.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:24 PM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Attached is description of a one-hour film documentary. Kinaalda, Navajo Rite of Passage is about 13-year old Tanya, going through her Coming of Age celebration. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please let me know if you have questions or need additional information.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best, Lena Carr (505) 508-1187<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica-Oblique","sans-serif"">Kinaalda, Navajo Rite of Passage,
</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">is an insider’s view of kinaalda, a four-day puberty rite<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">ceremony conducted to guide young Navajo girls in their passage to womanhood, a tradition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">unchanged for generations. This one hour documentary/drama follows 13-year old Tanya<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Sheperd to her initiation that deepens her connection to her Navajo culture and community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Viewers step inside a Navajo home, usually off-limits to outsiders, to observe the exacting ritual<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">of kinaalda. The film allow viewers to witness one of the oldest and most sacred of all Navajo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">ceremonies. It also illuminates the complexity of living in “two worlds”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">The film documents the moment when Tanya arrives at the pinnacle of her journey on the last<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">night of her ceremony, as she runs at dawn to present herself to the Holy People, who witness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">her transformation from child to adult and therefore, recognize her as a woman to be honored.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Producers: Aaron Carr and Lena Carr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Funded By: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Native American Public<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Telecommunications, Indian Summer Films, KAET-TV, Ellis Tanner Trading Co., and Prairie Dog<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Films.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">The film premiered at the Museum of the American Indian at Smithsonian Inst., New York City,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">and it has had numerous television broadcast and participations at public screenings and film<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">festivals: Margaret Mead Film Festival, Women In The Director˘s Chair, International du film<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">d˘Amiens, France, and many other prestigious events.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Educational Media Reviews: “</span><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica-Oblique","sans-serif"">Kinaalda, Navajo Rite of Passage,
</span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica-Oblique","sans-serif"">can be used to support a<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica-Oblique","sans-serif"">variety of subject areas across the disciplines, such as American Studies, Native American<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica-Oblique","sans-serif"">Studies, Anthropology, Multicultural Studies, and Women Studies. Schools, public, and<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica-Oblique","sans-serif"">academic programs, alike will be enhanced by this purchase</span></i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Review: “...</span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica-Oblique","sans-serif"">A wonderful film that explores a beautiful Navajo coming of
age tradition...inspiring”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">-Adrianne McCurrach, GirlsFilm School.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Review: “</span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica-Oblique","sans-serif"">It has the power to raise sensitivity and awareness about a culture
that often exists<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica-Oblique","sans-serif"">only as absence in teenagers˘ public-school education.”
</span></i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Lucy Georgeff, Teen Voices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Review: “</span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica-Oblique","sans-serif"">A compelling work from beginning to end.
</span></i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">-Elaine Charnov, Margaret Mead Film<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Festival”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Review: “</span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica-Oblique","sans-serif"">A moving documentary. It examines the painful history of the Navajo
tribe and shows<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica-Oblique","sans-serif"">how the decisions and deceptions of long ago are having an effect on the tribe
</span></i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">t</span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica-Oblique","sans-serif"">oday</span></i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">.” -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Women In Director˘s Chair.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Purchase Price: $175.00 (WAS $250.00); Shipping $4.00 per.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica-Bold","sans-serif"">To purchase, please contact Lena Carr, (505) 508-1187, by return email or direct<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica-Bold","sans-serif"">PayPal - indsmflm@yahoo.com<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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