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"The
Last Piece" a feature length digital video documentary,
nearly a decade in the making, chronicles the struggle of
the Shinnecock Indians to save what remains of their ancestral
lands and culture, as they confront local and State interests
during the recent unprecedented real estate boom in one of
New York's most elite suburbs, the ritzy Hamptons, Long Island,
N.Y. More:
Go here
to see trailer!
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"Native
American Neighbors" is short film by Karola
Ritter co-directed with Dr. Elizabeth Thunder Bird Haile,
is an earnest look at ideas about community and cultural sensibility
on the Shinnecock Indian reservation as things around the
Nation in Southampton, New York, change and tribe members
struggle to retain a sense of place by remembering the need
to be kind towards one's neighbors. New York Times Review:
"Native Americans
to Star in the Hamptons"
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"Tate
Wikuwa" is a tribute to Indigenous rights activist
Leonard Peltier, political prisoner # 89637-132 at the US
Penitentiary Leavenworth, Kansas. Incarcerated over three
decades Amnesty International considers him a "political
prisoner" who should be "immediately and unconditionally
released’ Karola filmed Peltier's beautiful paintings at the
Red Barn, Southampton, NY, to the soundtrack of Leonard's
own voice in his freedom song "Sundancer" (CD: Oliver
Shanty Shaman 2). To view go here.
For more info about Leonard Peltier go to: http://www.leonardpeltier.net
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"Two Sides of the
Street" is a short excerpt of Karola Ritter's
extensive coverage of the American Peace movement since 9/11,
which she documented as a member of "East End Women in
Black" in Long Island, in New York City and in Washington
DC. This short film has been co-produced with and edited by
with her then assistant and trainee Sergei Krasikau. To view
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