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Shouting Secrets Receives Praise at ABQFF Chaske Spencer Gil Birmingham
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“It’s a family drama where the family happens to be Native American.” —Korinna Sehringer, director of Shouting Secrets
Speaking of the ABQ Film Festival, I was sitting in the lobby at the KiMo theater chilling out before the feature film started, and a pretty blond with a European accent sat down by me and asked if I was there to see the movie. When I said yes, she exclaimed, “Oh, good!” Turns out she is the freaking director! Very interesting that a Green Card holder from Switzerland told the story in this movie so well.
In Shouting Secrets, a Native American family, separated by location and life choices, come together when the mother suffers a stroke. As the misunderstood father tries to keep everything under control, the family differences play out awkwardly, amusingly, and explosively. Gil Birmingham (Billy in Twilight) plays the father, and he was looking pretty sexy, BTW.
I really enjoyed this movie; it had lots of laughs and heart-tugging moments, but not the saccharin kind. In the Q&A that followed the movie screening, an older Caucasian man in the audience marveled at the actors’ performances. A man from Mexico commented on how so many of the scenes really “touched everyone in the audience.” A young Native American man said he was really happy about the many moments in the film that he could relate to.
Korinna herself said she connected to the protagonist’s storyline: he
hadn’t visited home in almost a decade and hadn’t returned his mother’s
last phone call. Korinna said that when she had been applying for her
Green Card, she worried about receiving that phone call announcing that
something bad had happened to a family member in Switzerland, and her
being stuck in the U.S., unable to get back to them in time. She also
remarked how “it’s so easy to get busy with pursuing your dream or
making a living, and saying, ‘oh, I’ll call them next weekend,’ and that
weekend turns into months and then years.”
That this movie so resonated with a diverse audience proves what ABQ Film Festival producer Rich Henrich said at the screenwriting panel: “Focus on themes that are broad and universal enough to be human.”
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“It’s a family drama where the family happens to be Native American.” —Korinna Sehringer, director of Shouting Secrets
Speaking of the ABQ Film Festival, I was sitting in the lobby at the KiMo theater chilling out before the feature film started, and a pretty blond with a European accent sat down by me and asked if I was there to see the movie. When I said yes, she exclaimed, “Oh, good!” Turns out she is the freaking director! Very interesting that a Green Card holder from Switzerland told the story in this movie so well.
In Shouting Secrets, a Native American family, separated by location and life choices, come together when the mother suffers a stroke. As the misunderstood father tries to keep everything under control, the family differences play out awkwardly, amusingly, and explosively. Gil Birmingham (Billy in Twilight) plays the father, and he was looking pretty sexy, BTW.
I really enjoyed this movie; it had lots of laughs and heart-tugging moments, but not the saccharin kind. In the Q&A that followed the movie screening, an older Caucasian man in the audience marveled at the actors’ performances. A man from Mexico commented on how so many of the scenes really “touched everyone in the audience.” A young Native American man said he was really happy about the many moments in the film that he could relate to.
Pinti,
Tushka, and Wesley are siblings who come together for their mother’s
illness in the film Shouting Secrets. Courtesy Shouting Secrets movie.
That this movie so resonated with a diverse audience proves what ABQ Film Festival producer Rich Henrich said at the screenwriting panel: “Focus on themes that are broad and universal enough to be human.”
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Friday, August 3, 2012
Gil Birmingham In Costume~Looking Good!
Friday, June 15, 2012
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Julia Jones, Gil Brimingham's Film California Indian to be Screened in DC 6/15
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Saturday, June 2, 2012
Friday, June 1, 2012
Gil Birmingham's Crooked Arrows Reviews
NY Times-
By DANIEL M. GOLD
Published: May 31, 2012
A reluctant new coach faces the challenge of leading a team of unhappy youths to a championship. On the way, setbacks are encountered and eventually overcome, and everyone, from the coach to the star to the last guy on the bench, learns something. Wouldn’t it be great if “Crooked Arrows,” a new movie about a Native American lacrosse team that takes on the prep school snobs, upended sports movie convention?
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Vancouver Sun-
By Katherine Monk, Postmedia News
The actors bear their narrative fate with a brave face and a patient smile, with Routh providing some sharp comic punctuation with artfully delivered sarcasm. The rest of the cast doesn't get enough dialogue to work around the hackneyed sentiments and cliched moments, but you can tell it's not their fault.
Even the most painful moments, including the scenes featuring a Yoda-like granny – complete with wooden walking stick and backward syntax – were obviously scripted with noble intent.
And in the end, it's these intangible forces that rescue the movie from a puddle of propagandist impulse and leaden drama. There is something fundamentally moving about people using sport to recreate themselves, their culture or their community.
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MOVIE GUY 24/7
Created on Sunday, 27 May 2012 16:12 Written by George Rother
After a succession of crappy early summer movies, it's like a breath of fresh air watching something as genuinely entertaining as Crooked Arrows, a sports drama about a Native American lacrosse team and the new coach who takes them out of last place and puts them on the path to the championship game. Yep, it's the ever popular underdog scenario that has defined countless sports dramas (Remember the Titans) and comedies (The Bad News Bears)! But in this case, director Steve Rash (Under the Rainbow) brings a little something different to the table, he combines a routine sports drama with a history lesson about the game of lacrosse. If this sounds slightly familiar, then you must be one of the ten people who saw last year's forgettable A Warrior's Heart which addresses this very same subject. To summarize, the game originated among the six nations of the Iroquois confederacy and it dates back about 1000 years. Now it's one of the most popular sports in the country. Undoubtedly, this means that we're bound to see many lacrosse-themed movies hit the multiplexes in the near future. After all, you can only make so many movies about baseball, football and hockey, right?
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