The 2013 NC Latin American Film Festival presents:

In the Light of Reverence

(Christopher McLeod & Malinda Maynor, 2001, 52 min, USA, English, Color, DVD).

-- Part of the Native & Indigenous Film Series of the NC Latin American Film Festival.

In the Light of Reverence tells the stories of three communities and places they care for: the Lakota at Devils Tower in Wyoming, the Hopi in the Four Corners area of the Southwest, and the Wintu at Mt. Shasta in California. The film documents obstacles to religious freedom for land-based practitioners, and impacts on sacred sites that range from mining and ski resorts to New Age practices and rock-climbing. All places of extraordinary beauty - and impassioned controversy - as Indians and non-Indians struggle to co-exist with very different ideas about how the land should be used. For Native Americans, the land is sacred and akin to the world's greatest cathedrals. For others, the land should be used for industry and recreation. Narrated by Peter Coyote and Tantoo Cardinal (Metis), In the Light of Reverence is a beautifully rendered account of the struggles of the Lakota in the Black Hills, the Hopi in Arizona and the Wintu in California to protect their sacred sites.

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Hemispheric Indigeneity in the Global Age, a Mellon Foundation - Partnership in a Global Age grant, American Indian Center, UNC-CH, and Native and Indigenous Studies, UNC-CH.