Join us for an encore screening of this coming-of-age documentary directed by Paige Bethmann. Remaining Native follows Ku Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner. As Ku struggles to navigate his dream of becoming a collegiate athlete, the memory of his great grandfather’s escape from an Indian boarding school begins to connect past, present, and future.

Attend a screening of !Women Art Revolution, a film by Lynn Hershman Leeson, which explores the slow but steady rise of the women’s art community in the 1960s and 1970s. Stay after the screening for a discussion facilitated by Dr. Katherine Fusco, Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Gender, Race and Identity Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. 

This coming-of-age documentary directed by Paige Bethmann follows Ku Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner. As Ku struggles to navigate his dream of becoming a collegiate athlete, the memory of his great grandfather’s escape from an Indian boarding school begins to connect past, present, and future.  Stay after the screening for a panel discussion. 

Grab A Hunk of Lightning, a 110-minute film narrated and directed by Dorothea Lange’s granddaughter, award-winning filmmaker Dyanna Taylor, tells the compelling story of the passion, vision, and drive that made Lange one of the most important documentary photographers of the 20th century. Virtual discussion with the filmmaker to follow the screening.  

Attend a screening of Teknolust, a film by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Tilda Swinton plays four roles in this award-winning film about Rosetta Stone and her three Self-Replicating Automatons, which she cloned from her own D.N.A. Stay after the screening for a discussion facilitated by Katherine Fusco, Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Gender, Race and Identity Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. 

Photo: 

Lynn Hershman Leeson

Teknolust (still) , 2022

Digital video 

83 minutes 

The Third Coast Dance Film Festival celebrates the intersection of contemporary dance and the moving image with a screening series of short dance films. Now in its fifteenth year, the Third Coast Dance Film Festival 2025 lineup will include domestic and international films. Join festival founder Rosie Trump for an evening celebrating dance and the moving image.

Film Line Up:

AWAKENING (Taiwan)          

Director: Sze-Ting Huang

Choreographer: Chang-Fu Liao

*Best of Festival Award Winner

body landscapes (USA)          

Director & Choreographer: cari ann shim sham*     

Blue Funk (South Africa)

Director & Choreographer: Louise Coetzer    

*Best of Festival Award Winner

Derby (Canada)          

Director: Pierre-Alexandre Girard     

Choreographer: Helder Seabra

Fire in the Belly (USA)           

Director & Choreographer: Amanda Ling

Choreographers: Amanda Ling

Heartland (USA)        

Directors: Stéphane Glynn and Molly Heller 

Choreographer: Molly Heller

Inter Library Loan (USA)        

Director: Marta Renzi

Chorographers: Marta Renzi with dancers

*Best of Festival Award Winner

Notebook (3 experiments) (USA)      

Director: Mitchell Rose          

to be near you. (USA)

Directors: Ali Kenner Brodsky & Jarret Blinkhorn      

Choreographer: Ali Kenner Brodsky

(un) G A T H E R E D (USA)    

Director: Kayla “mokka” Tomooka    

Choreographers: mokka in collaboration with dancers

*Spirit of the Festival Award Winner

woman/water (USA)

Director & Choreographer: Ellen Duffy   

Held annually in Telluride, CO, Mountainfilm is a festival featuring a collection of culturally rich, adventure-packed and enlightening documentary short films. Join us for a screening of a curated selection of powerful films from the festival. Mountainfilm on Tour is presented in partnership with the Eastern Sierra Interpretive Association. 

*Doors open at 5pm with a cash bar*

Join us for a screening of the film Putuparri and the Rainmakers, a universal story about the sacred relationship between people and place. It takes audiences on a rare and emotional journey to meet the traditional rainmakers of Australia’s Great Sandy Desert who have fought a twenty-year battle to win back their traditional homeland.

The film spans ten transformative years in the life of Tom ‘Putuparri’ Lawford as he navigates the deep chasm between his Western upbringing and his growing determination to fight for his family’s homeland. A trip back to his grandparents’ country in the desert begins the process of cultural awakening. Putuparri is shocked to learn that the dreamtime myths are not just stories, that there is a country called Kurtal and a snake spirit that is the subject of an elaborate rainmaking ritual.

Putuparri is a man caught between two worlds: the deeply spiritual universe of his people’s traditional culture and his life in modern society where he struggles with alcoholism and domestic violence. As he reconnects with his ancestral lands and learns about his traditional culture he begins to accept his future as a leader of his people and shoulders his responsibility to pass this knowledge on to the next generation.

Set against the backdrop of their long fight to reclaim their traditional lands, Putuparri and the Rainmakers is an emotional, visually breathtaking story of love, hope and the survival of Aboriginal law and culture against all odds.

The 2024 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 110-minute theatrical program of seven short films curated from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, including three Festival Award–winning titles. Considered the premier showcase for short films and the launchpad for many now-prominent independent filmmakers, the Festival includes fiction, documentary, and animation projects from around the world. Throughout its 40 editions, the Festival has supported short films by providing a platform for both established and emerging filmmakers to connect with audiences. Driven by innovation and experimentation, the Short Film Program seeks out filmmaking’s most original voices. The 2024 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour program is a sampling of Festival offerings and a testament to the unique storytelling potential that the format holds. Audiences who missed the 2024 Sundance Film Festival — which took place online and in person in Park City, Utah, January 18–28 — can enjoy a mix of fiction, documentary, and animated shorts that are funny, sad, inspiring, and full of strong characters.

The Festival’s Short Film Program has long been established as a place to discover talented directors, such as alumni Andrea Arnold, Lake Bell, Damien Chazelle, Destin Daniel Cretton, Jay and Mark Duplass, Debra Granik, Rashaad Ernesto Green, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Todd Haynes, Sterlin Harjo, Don Hertzfeldt, Sky Hopinka, Shaka King, Lynne Ramsay, Dee Rees, Joey Soloway, Taika Waititi, and many others.

*Some films for mature audiences only*

Held annually in Telluride CO, Mountainfilm is a festival featuring a collection of culturally rich, adventure-packed, and enlightening documentary short films. Join us for a screening of a curated selection of powerful films from the festival. Mountainfilm on Tour is presented in partnership with the Eastern Sierra Interpretive Association. 

*Doors open at 5pm with cash bar