Pitos Waskochepayis V: One Spirit, Two Spirit, Three Spirit, Four!

This year we are excited to present performing artist Adelina Anthony.

ADELINA ANTHONY is a critically acclaimed and award winning two-spirit Xicana lesbian multi-genre artist, cultural activist, teaching artist, theater and film director/producer. She has over 20 years of performance experience and has garnered Best Actress nominations and awards. She has most recently written the short film screenplay, Get the Life, which was produced by a 2016 Film Independent Project Involve team and will screen during the L.A. Film Festival in June. She is a 2015 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in LGBT Drama for her play, The Beast of Times. This is her second nomination, as she was also a 2014 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Drama for her first published work, Las Hociconas (both works published by Kórima Press)

In 2014 she was invited to participate in the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive. The year prior, 2013, she was awarded the Sony Pictures Diversity Fellowship through Film Independent’s Project Involve program. (She participated in Project Involve in the Screenwriting Track.) Her first short film as writer-director, Forgiving Heart, has screened at film festivals and university campuses, premiering in 2013 at the Outfest Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival Gala.

The second short film she penned, You’re Dead to Me, was executive produced by Film Independent’s Project Involve and the National Minority Consortia for PBS; this short film won the 2014 Imagen Award and several film festival audience awards. Adelina is currently in post-production with her first feature film Bruising for Besos, which will world-premiere in 2016. Along with Marisa Becerra, Adelina is a managing member and co-founder of AdeRisa Productions, LLC.

Adelina’s comedy is known for its trademark salacious, brazen, and Spanglish humor. The themes in her work address colonization, feminisms, traumas, ancestral memorias, gender, health, race & ethnicity, immigration, sexuality, land & environment & issues generally affecting our two-spirit/ queer/ lesbian/ gay/ bisexual/ transgender / womyn of color / and people of color communities. Using comedy as a weapon of choice, she tackles taboo subjects with flair and delightful zings.

One Spirit, Two Spirit, Three Spirit, Four!
This collection of short films and videos sheds a queer light on individuals, family, community, gentrification, history, performance, contemporary art…and beaded whisks! At times serious and insightful, colourful and irreverent, silly and smart, this spirited program – comprised of documentaries, a music video, performance, and parodies – provides insight into personal discoveries, commentary on social and political subject matter, titillating humour and fun, and oh yes, those beaded whisks!
Total running time: 47 minutes

O f T r u t h A C a n v a s
C o s m o M o n e l y S o l t a n i , 2 0 1 2, U S A, 5 m i n.
T h e d a p p l e d r e f l e c t i o n o f a T w o – S p i r i t a r t i s t e m e r g e s .

Regalia: Pride in Two Spirits
David Ng & Jen Sungshine, 2015, Canada 5min
Duane Stewart shares his story as a First Nations queer person, who identifies as “Two Spirited”. Duane talks about the importance of culture in his life, and his journey coming out to his family.

Family is Like Skin – Lesbians in Cambodia
Paula Stromberg, 2015, Canada, 6 minutes
This film features long term lesbian couples who survived the Khmer Rouge genocide of the 1970s, as well as young activists who sometimes face societal discrimination. Many had never left their rural villages before. Unique considerations of Cambodian lesbians include the importance of family acceptance, staying with your family, and living in a Buddhist country where homosexuality is not criminalized.

Voguing Train with Kemar Jewel
Kemar Jewel & Andrew Paszkiewicz, 2014, USA, 3 min.
Voguing and Ballroom is such an underground culture . . . so let’s actually take it underground! When you mix elements of the ballroom scene with performance art, there is always magic to be made.

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Thirza Cuthand, 2015, Canada, 4:47 min.
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Black Glitter Collective/Daddie’s Plastik (Persia, San Cha, Tyler Holmes, and Vain Hein), 2013, USA, 3 min.
Facebook/Twitter me/Google google…..I just wanna wanna be white! Anti-gentrification drag in a music video.

Casualties of Modernity
Kent Monkman, 2015, Canada, 14:20 min.
Celebrity artist and humanitarian Miss Chief Eagle Testickle (Kent Monkman) tours a hospital specializing in the treatment of conditions afflicting Modern and Contemporary Art. Led by the Doctor of Fine Arts (Quinton Neufeldt), and closely supervised by the no-nonsense head Nurse (Gillian Edwards), Miss Chief encounters romance, tragedy and triumph.

Wake Up!
Jessie Short, 2015, Canada, 6 min.
A Métis woman explores identity by transforming herself into one of the only widely known Métis icons, a man named Louis Riel, who lived over 100 years ago.

Funding support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Sask Arts Board, Saskculture and Sasklotteries

by Indigenous People's Artist Collective

Pitos Waskochepayis V: One Spirit, Two Spirit, Three Spirit, Four!

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