WE WON BEST FEATURE FILM AWARD and WINONA LADUKE WON ECOHERO AWARD!!!
Dawn Smallman, the director of the Portland EcoFilm Festival came to the airport to pick up Winona, her mother the painter Betty LaDuke and myself. Dawn had a huge grin on her face as she walked up to us in the luggage area of the PDX Airport. “Your film sold-out this morning” was her greeting. We went straight from the airport to the Portland EcoFilm Festival which plays its official selections in a beautiful historic 1928 Hollywood Theater. As we drove up to the theater the marquee took me by surprise. The front of the theater has been restored and is majestic as the facade reaches to the sky with all these cavings and decorative curves. The large letters on the marquee said; PORTLAND ECOFILM: FIRST DAUGHTER AND THE BLACK SNAKE. Wow. The Arizona International Film Festival also had the film’s title on the front of the theater marquee but the Hollywood Theater is so dang beautiful. Imagine the history that has happened there over the last century!
Screening indigenous values on a screen that was all built on stolen land is significant.
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- First Daughter and the Black Snake headlines Portland EcoFilm Festival. The story follows Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice efforts to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. A film by Keri Pickett.
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- Opening night tickets were gone by the morning of the screening.
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- First Daughter and the Black Snake EcoFilm Festival screening sold out!
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Lobby of the Hollywood Theater.
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- Sean Cruz
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival director Dawn Smallman introduces First Daughter and the Black Snake director Keri Pickett.
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival director Dawn Smallman introduces First Daughter and the Black Snake director Keri Pickett.
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival director Dawn Smallman introduces First Daughter and the Black Snake director Keri Pickett.
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival director Dawn Smallman introduces First Daughter and the Black Snake director Keri Pickett and principal participant Winona LaDuke.
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival director Dawn Smallman introduces First Daughter and the Black Snake director Keri Pickett and principal participant Winona LaDuke.
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival director Dawn Smallman introduces First Daughter and the Black Snake director Keri Pickett and principal participant Winona LaDuke.
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Winona LaDuke wins EcoHero Award and Keri Pickett wins Best Feature Film Award.
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- Keri Pickett and Guy Swanson
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- Winona LaDuke wins EcoHero Award and Keri Pickett wins Best Feature Film Award.
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Environmental justice leader Winona LaDuke and Director/Producer Keri Pickett receive a standing ovation.
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett
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- Portland EcoFilm Festival opens with First Daughter and the Black Snake with Winona LaDuke’s environmental justice fight to keep big oil out of her tribe’s sacred wild rice territory. Photo by Keri Pickett