The Snowbowl Effect to be Screened at the National Museum of the American Indian

SEPTEMBER

THE SNOWBOWL EFFECT
Sept. 2nd
11:30 am
Discussion with filmmaker and special guests to follow the 11:30 am presentation at the Rasmuson Theater, First level
National Museum of the American Indian.

3:30 pm - Navajo Next Wave
Please join us for a conversation with the filmmakers presented as part of "Navajo Paradiso!" to discuss the evolution of documentary filmmaking by Navajo filmmakers. Discussion to be held in the Resource Center on the Third Level.

AUGUST

THE SNOWBOWL EFFECT
August 18th and 19th
11:30 am and 3:30 pm
Discussion with filmmaker and special guests to follow the 11:30 am presentation.

The Snowbowl Effect
(2005, 56 min.) US
Director: Klee Benally (Navajo)

Arizona's San Francisco Peaks, revered by more than a dozen Native American tribes, have endured a history of development. Although a coalition of tribal leaders and environmentalists were able to halt mining activities in the late 1990s, the struggles to protect the Peaks are not over. This thoughtful look at our relationship to the land focuses on a new battle between conservationists and developers over the U.S. Forest Service's lease of 777 acres to the Arizona Snowbowl Ski Resort.
For more information on the film please visit: www.savethepeaks.org


Rasmuson Theater, First level
National Museum of the American Indian
Independence Ave and 4th Street, SW - Washington, DC

All programs subject to change. FREE and open to the public.

The Film + Video Center is a national center for the exhibition of Native work, providing information about indigenous film, video, radio, television and new media. Located in New York and Washington DC, the center presents the biennial Native American Film and Video Festival, national video tours, daily film programming, and special film programs like this one.

For additional information please call 202-633-1000/ TTY (202) 357-1729 or visit: http://www.nativenetworks.si.edu or http://www.redesindigenas.si.edu (Spanish).

Klee Benally (Navajo) Producer/Director/Editor/Writer formed Indigenous Action Media to offer training and production opportunities to Native youth interested in addressing social and economic justice issues through documentary film and video. He has directed works focusing on Native community concerns, such as The Snowbowl Effect, a documentary which makes the case against the expansion of the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort on the San Francisco Peaks. In 2004 and 2005, Benally was the coordinator of the Southwest Native American Film and Video Festival at the Museum of Northern Arizona. With his sister and brothers, he performs in the message-driven band Blackfire, which was chosen by Nora Guthrie to set to music a selection of unpublished lyrics written by her father Woody Guthrie. Blackfire has toured extensively nationally and internationally; the album One Nation Under, featuring guest vocals by Joey Ramone, was honored as the 2003 Best Pop/Rock Album by the Native American Music Awards. Since childhood Benally has performed with the Jones Benally Family, a dance troupe led by his father, a singer. Benally was born in Black Mesa, Arizona, and lives in Flagstaff.