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Oyate

Price: $320.00
Filmmaker Name: Dan Girmus
Film Length: 72 min
Film Year: 2019
Duration: 46-75 min
Decade: 2010s
Language: in English, Lakota
Color: color
Closed-captioned: closed-captioned
Region: North America
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ABOUT

Oyate is a time capsule of moments, gestures, and events that took place on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota during the summer of 2015. The narrative, pieced together mainly from the day-to-day activities of two Lakota families, anchors the viewer among the rhythms and sounds of everyday life.

While not an outwardly politicized film, Oyate is an unmistakably political one; a film that keenly and quietly positions a collection of seemingly commonplace events (a conversation in the back of a truck, a group of young girls lighting off fireworks, a birth, a wedding reception) as deeply felt occurrences of purpose, faith, and love in an often difficult world.


"This tightly packed and intimate documentary gives a rare glimpse into a forgotten world we only hear about in passing. One of the most important DOCS of the year."
-Devin Negrete, Film Note Magazine

“Unlike so many other documentaries about Pine Ridge that focus on the poverty and deprivation of Lakota residents, this film interrupts that narrative to celebrate families and the intimacy of their day to day lives." - Danette Pachtner, Librarian for Film, Video & Digital Media and Women's Studies, Duke University

SELECTED AWARDS & SCREENINGS
Artistic Vision Award, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, US, 2017
Regard Neuf Finalist, Visions du Réel, Switzerland, 2017
EthnoKino, Switzerland, 2018
Duluth Superior Film Festival Indigenous Screening Series, US, 2018
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, US, 2017
Independent Film Festival Boston, US, 2017

CREDITS & INFO

Oyate

SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Artistic Vision Award, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, US, 2017
Regard Neuf Finalist, Visions du Réel, Switzerland, 2017
Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival, 2019
EthnoKino, Switzerland, 2018
Duluth Superior Film Festival Indigenous Screening Series, US, 2018
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, US, 2017
Independent Film Festival Boston, US, 2017


DIRECTOR/CINEMATOGRAPHER/EDITOR
Dan Girmus

COLORIST
Heather Cassano

SOUND MIX/DESIGN
Ross Matthei

POSTER DESIGN
Sara Leimbach



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