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Film Production Blog "Waterbuster"
Thank you North Dakota!
Nov 02, 2006 08:20PM
To all who saw Waterbuster on PBS,
I want to thank all of you who took the time to see the film this evening on Prairie Public Broadcasting. It has been nothing short of our honor and pleasure that the people who opened their homes and lives to us during the making of this film would now have the oppotunity to see the final result on television. There are many, many stories that remain to be told. I hope that Waterbuster will inspire and empower all to tell these stories for everyone else to enjoy and learn from.
J. Carlos Peinado
Day Six...
May 03, 2006 10:48AM
Waterbuster had its fourth and final screening yesterday afternoon. We have been incredibly moved by the audience's response to the film and are now looking forward to seeing other prorams that we've yet to see. On the third screening on Monday, I was just blown away at the arrival of an elderly woman from the Fort Berthold Indian Reservatio who had brought her two daughters to the screening. At the end of the film, I had the honor of telling her in front of the audience that the film was wade for her and generation. Everyone applauded.
Who knows where we will go next with this film, but so far our experience has been nothing short of wonderful.
Carlos
Who knows where we will go next with this film, but so far our experience has been nothing short of wonderful.
Carlos
Day Three...
May 01, 2006 10:34AM
Today is day three of our screening schedule and we are so excited at the turnout for the film's first two screenings! We've had incredible response in the Q&A adn the questions keep coming even after we've been kicked out of the theatre. We remain hopeful that Waterbuster will find a home soon.
NMAI (National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian) hosted a wonderful party for us and otehr Native filmmakers last night adn my personal highlight was meeting Mr. John Trudell. Thanks bro for a wonderful and memorable discussion.
Peace.
NMAI (National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian) hosted a wonderful party for us and otehr Native filmmakers last night adn my personal highlight was meeting Mr. John Trudell. Thanks bro for a wonderful and memorable discussion.
Peace.
Getting ready for the show....
Apr 24, 2006 07:10AM
April 24th, Quechee, VT...
Well folks here's the skinny. Two years to the day that we attended the Tribeca Film Festival All-Access Program, we find ourselves packing a bag (or three) for our premiere screening at Tribeca. We are excited, hopeful and nervous about the opening screening on Saturday. From the get-go, we had hoped for just this kind of thing happening.
The film had humble beginnings... Hatched during our life aboard a 35 foot sloop in Ventura, CA when we decided to leave the sun and southern California and restart our lives elsewhere. What should we do, we asked. How about a film? I told Daphne (my girlfriend) about a story that needed to be told that took place in North Dakota back in the 1950's when the Army Corps of Engineers started damming the Upper Missouri River. Sure, why not, she replied and the rest is history. Now here we are, two years later. Two neophytes heading to NYC for the ride of our lives...
Well folks here's the skinny. Two years to the day that we attended the Tribeca Film Festival All-Access Program, we find ourselves packing a bag (or three) for our premiere screening at Tribeca. We are excited, hopeful and nervous about the opening screening on Saturday. From the get-go, we had hoped for just this kind of thing happening.
The film had humble beginnings... Hatched during our life aboard a 35 foot sloop in Ventura, CA when we decided to leave the sun and southern California and restart our lives elsewhere. What should we do, we asked. How about a film? I told Daphne (my girlfriend) about a story that needed to be told that took place in North Dakota back in the 1950's when the Army Corps of Engineers started damming the Upper Missouri River. Sure, why not, she replied and the rest is history. Now here we are, two years later. Two neophytes heading to NYC for the ride of our lives...
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Screening at th Heard Museum Film Festival...
Oct 16, 2006 11:45AM
Dear Folks, We have just wrapped our screening at the Heard Museum Film Festival to a packed house of more than 250 people. Our most heartfelt thanks to all who have made these screenings a memorable event. I am beginning to see more than ever that Waterbuster has a distinct message to Indian and non-Indian audiences and validates our approach to making a film that is non-polemical when one could so easily choose to do so when talking about injustices against the American Indian throughout history. We will be showing next at the American Indian Film Institute Film Festival in San Francisco next month and at the NMAI FIlm Festival in NYC in December. I hope that those of you who have attended our screenings have enjoyed the film and the important message to Indian Country that we worked so hard at to be heard. Off to the races! Carlos
Waterbuster Reviewed by Variety Online
Jun 02, 2006 07:20AM
As it appears at www.variety.com
Waterbuster
(Documentary)
A Brave Boat production. Produced by Juan Carlos Peinado, Daphne D. Ross. Directed by Juan Carlos Peinado, written, edited by Peinado, Daphne D. Ross
With: Fielder, Darrell Fielder, Fred Baker, Reba White Shirt, Paul Van Develder, Tom Grenz.
(English, Hidatsa dialogue)
By RONNIE SCHEIB
A lyrical, haunting account of loss of community and cultural identity, Juan Carlos Peinado's "Waterbuster" evocatively melds personal and tribal history. Pic's catalog of broken treaties and blatant exploitation registers as unfortunately all too familiar. But Peinado's dense tapestry of photographs, drawings, government films, cartoons and homemovies vividly reimagines the fabled towns and rich bottomland from which the North Dakota Indians were evicted by the damming of the Missouri River. Intriguing docu could build enough momentum on the fest circuit to insure ancillary interest.
Returning to his ancestral homeland to place a headstone on his grandmother's grave, the filmmaker conjures a strong sense of identification with the bend in the river that once housed seven towns now under the waters of Lake Sakajawea, an ironic name that belies the water's non-native origin. Though the story of tribes' dispossession from their ancestral lands plays as heartbreaking in its injustice, the manner of its telling and the self-possession of its tellers plant an impression of strength and persistence.
Unlike most tribes resettled or left on land judged worthless, the members of the Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Nation of the Fort Berthold Reservation remained self-sufficient, conserving their language and customs well into the 1950s, running livestock, cultivating fertile fields and living in towns that outwardly looked very much the same as those of their Anglo counterparts.
Three consecutive catastrophic floods along the Missouri River in the 1940s led the Army Corps of Engineers to propose a series of dams. Historians and tribal chiefs explain that the Garrison Dam could have been built elsewhere without illegally abrogating government treaties. As the tale of congressional arrogance and shady dealings unfolds, Peinado intercuts a contemporaneous 16mm public service film that spouts the official line: that "Mr. Gregg," the average farmer, is scrupulously guaranteed fair compensation for his land.
The relocation of 4,000 people and the loss of some 156,000 acres proved devastating, sounding the death knell of tribal life as members were scattered to the four winds. Yet when the filmmaker and his relatives are drawn back to the land and to the sense of belonging it imparts, it's clear that their spiritual belief in who they are remains strong. It's also noted that the lake is beginning to silt up, ruining the tourist trade.
Peinado uses a small screen-within-a-screen to counterpoint the past -- via homemovies, government propaganda reels or family photographs, with the large-screen present.
Serene DV lensing is impressive, as is the pic's Hypnotic Amerind score. Pic is titled after the clan of the director's mother.
Camera (color, DV), Peinado; music, Steve Cornell; music supervisor, Jeanne Da Silva; sound, Peinado. Reviewed on DVD, New York, May 5, 2006. (In Tribeca Film Festival -- Discovery.) Running time: 78 MIN.
Waterbuster
(Documentary)
A Brave Boat production. Produced by Juan Carlos Peinado, Daphne D. Ross. Directed by Juan Carlos Peinado, written, edited by Peinado, Daphne D. Ross
With: Fielder, Darrell Fielder, Fred Baker, Reba White Shirt, Paul Van Develder, Tom Grenz.
(English, Hidatsa dialogue)
By RONNIE SCHEIB
A lyrical, haunting account of loss of community and cultural identity, Juan Carlos Peinado's "Waterbuster" evocatively melds personal and tribal history. Pic's catalog of broken treaties and blatant exploitation registers as unfortunately all too familiar. But Peinado's dense tapestry of photographs, drawings, government films, cartoons and homemovies vividly reimagines the fabled towns and rich bottomland from which the North Dakota Indians were evicted by the damming of the Missouri River. Intriguing docu could build enough momentum on the fest circuit to insure ancillary interest.
Returning to his ancestral homeland to place a headstone on his grandmother's grave, the filmmaker conjures a strong sense of identification with the bend in the river that once housed seven towns now under the waters of Lake Sakajawea, an ironic name that belies the water's non-native origin. Though the story of tribes' dispossession from their ancestral lands plays as heartbreaking in its injustice, the manner of its telling and the self-possession of its tellers plant an impression of strength and persistence.
Unlike most tribes resettled or left on land judged worthless, the members of the Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Nation of the Fort Berthold Reservation remained self-sufficient, conserving their language and customs well into the 1950s, running livestock, cultivating fertile fields and living in towns that outwardly looked very much the same as those of their Anglo counterparts.
Three consecutive catastrophic floods along the Missouri River in the 1940s led the Army Corps of Engineers to propose a series of dams. Historians and tribal chiefs explain that the Garrison Dam could have been built elsewhere without illegally abrogating government treaties. As the tale of congressional arrogance and shady dealings unfolds, Peinado intercuts a contemporaneous 16mm public service film that spouts the official line: that "Mr. Gregg," the average farmer, is scrupulously guaranteed fair compensation for his land.
The relocation of 4,000 people and the loss of some 156,000 acres proved devastating, sounding the death knell of tribal life as members were scattered to the four winds. Yet when the filmmaker and his relatives are drawn back to the land and to the sense of belonging it imparts, it's clear that their spiritual belief in who they are remains strong. It's also noted that the lake is beginning to silt up, ruining the tourist trade.
Peinado uses a small screen-within-a-screen to counterpoint the past -- via homemovies, government propaganda reels or family photographs, with the large-screen present.
Serene DV lensing is impressive, as is the pic's Hypnotic Amerind score. Pic is titled after the clan of the director's mother.
Camera (color, DV), Peinado; music, Steve Cornell; music supervisor, Jeanne Da Silva; sound, Peinado. Reviewed on DVD, New York, May 5, 2006. (In Tribeca Film Festival -- Discovery.) Running time: 78 MIN.
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