Nihunavea: My Heart, My Center

FAIN: TD-280519-21

Film Independent, Inc. (Los Angeles, CA 90036-5679)
Colin Rosemont (Project Director: January 2021 to December 2023)

Development of a ninety-minute documentary film on the Tejon Tribe of California’s struggle to reclaim sovereignty and revitalize their native language.

Nihunavea is a feature-length documentary film (co-directed by Sandra Hernandez and Colin Rosemont) bearing witness to the complex struggles of reclaiming Native California Indian cultural heritage, spirituality, and Tribal Sovereignty. Set shortly after the Tejon Indian Tribe’s decades-long struggle for sovereignty through Federal Reaffirmation, Sandra Hernandez—an enrolled member and elected official of the Tejon Indian Tribe—forges a path through government agencies, museum institutions, & academia as she works to revitalize the Kitanemuk language, repatriate artifacts, and strengthen the foundational core of her Native identity: family & community. This is a story of reasserting tribal sovereignty and reclaiming cultural heritage in the face of a historical legacy of dispossession.

Associated Products

Nihunavea_WorkInProgress_Sample (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Nihunavea_WorkInProgress_Sample
Writer: Colin Rosemont
Writer: Sandra Hernandez
Director: Colin Rosemont
Director: Sandra Hernandez
Producer: Colin Rosemont
Producer: Devlin Gandy
Abstract: This sample demonstrates access, preliminary interviews, and characters who will serve as the backbone for the feature length production of Nihunavea. This sample will be instrumental in securing additional funds to complete production.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://vimeo.com/792082640/13a6397995
Primary URL Description: This is a private and unlisted link. Anyone with the link can access the sample but it is not published for public viewing anywhere.
Access Model: Private Link--Not for distribution
Format: Web

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