Katsitsionni D Fox | CANADA | 27 min
Presented by Art Not Shame
EVENT: Special Pop Up Event Presented by Art Not Shame!
Feature Film Screening: Prior to European contact there was a rich and vibrant diversity of foods, with women primarily responsible for the seeds. A grassroots Indigenous food sovereignty movement, led by Haudenosaunee women, is reclaiming this sacred caretaking of the seeds.
Post-Film: Check back for all the awesomeness that Art Not Shame has dreamt up to go with this impactful short!
DIRECTOR BIO:
Katsitsionnni Fox
Katsitsionnni Fox is a Mohawk filmmaker sharing empowering stories of resilient Indigenous women. Her debut film was the award winning Ohero:kon - Under the Husk, a 26-min documentary, following the journey of two Mohawk girls as they take part in their traditional passage rites to becoming Mohawk Women. Katsitsionni received the Jane Glassco Award for Emerging Filmmaker at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival in 2016 as well as the Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking Award at LA Skins Fest in 2016. This film received funding from Vision Maker Media and has been broadcast on many PBS stations since 2017. Her most recent film, Without a Whisper - Konnon:kwe, tells the untold story of how Indigenous women influenced the early suffragists in their fight for freedom and equality.
