FILMS

Medicine Ball, directed by returning festival filmmaker Leya Hale (The Electric Indian, Bring Her Home) and produced by Sydney Beane (Ohiyesa: The Soul of an Indian), follows Native college athletes Lexus Redthunder and Leroy Fairbanks IV as they navigate college life and basketball at the University of Minnesota Morris, located on the site of a former Native boarding school.

Bright Harvest: Powering Earth From Space, produced by philanthropist and Caltech trustee Brigitte Bren and written, directed, and produced by Steven Reich— tells the story of three Caltech professors whose decade-long collaboration led to the world's first successful demonstration of wireless power transmission from space to Earth in 2023.

No Greater Act: Pueblo Resistance, directed by David Aubrey, written by Maura Dhu Studi, narrated by Wes Studi, is a groundbreaking documentary by Silver Bullet Productions that tells the fascinating story of Indigenous resistance to Spanish colonization of New Mexico. The foundation for methods of resistance today, this is not a history of Pueblos, nor the Pueblo Revolt, but an account of early resistance.

Greenfield, produced and directed by Rob Herring (The Need To Grow, Farmacy of Light, Let Them Be Naked), is an intimate look into the mind and mission of Robin Greenfield, who challenges what it means to live in harmony with the Earth. His radical simplicity invites us to question what we truly need to be free, fulfilled, and human.

The Water Keepers, directed by Daniel Glick and produced by tribal members Robert McDonald and Casey Ryan, is a documentary that offers a revealing look at a group of tribal field technicians who laid the groundwork for one of the largest American Indian water settlements in history and honors the work of tribal scientists, technicians, and elders while showcasing the importance of, and dedication to, protecting natural resources.

UNMUTED, is a docuseries directed by Dena Hysell-Cornejo and Gil Marsden, and executive producers Charlotte Lubert, Ariel White, and Daniel Lubert, with interviews led by Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians), Marie Avgeropoulos (The 100), and Torrey DeVitto (Chicago Med). Unmuted follows individuals and communities reclaiming their voices after conflict and systemic silencing.