Fall Screenings and Pre-Orders

WAshington D.C. and Seattle City Hall

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The film will be screening in Washington D.C. at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian on November 2, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in the Rasmuson Theater. The event is free and will be followed up with a panel discussion between Rev. John Norwood (Lenni-Lenape, Co Chair of NCAI’s Taskforce for Federal Recognition), Chairman Tony Johnson (Chinook Nation) and the filmmakers. The film is being hosted by the Smithsonian in conjunction with the National Congress of American Indians and the Alliance of Colonial Era Tribes. 

In October, we will also be screening at Seattle’s City Hall in October 24, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. - the Bertha Knight Landes Room. Doors open at 5:30, with brief remarks by Seattle City Councilmember Lisa Herbold and Duwamish Tribal Chair Cecile Hansen preceding the film at 5:45. They'll be joined by the filmmakers for discussion with the audience following the screening. The event is free.

We have several more screenings this fall to check out on our events page in King, Yakima, and Clark counties in Washington State, and pre-orders for the film are finally available here!

Stay tuned for more!

-Sarah

University of Washington Press and the Film

From the Desk of the Director of University of Washington Press:

"The Western Reads common book selection is just one example of how communities and readers engage with the work we publish. Another is Promised Land, a new documentary about the Duwamish and Chinook fight for treaty recognition. Several UW Press books “formed the academic framework of the film’s narrative,” as filmmaker Sarah Samudre Salcedo puts it, including Coll Thrush’s Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place, Robert T. Boyd, Kenneth Ames, and Tony Johnson’s Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia, and Jon Daehnke’s forthcoming Chinook Resilience: Heritage and Cultural Revitalization on the Lower Columbia River. The Seattle Theatre Group will present Promised Land on July 6, 2017, at the Neptune Theatre. The screening is free and open to the public and will include a preshow discussion with representatives from the tribes. We hope you can join us."

Read more on University of Washington Press's website.

The film goes to California...

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The film has been selected to be part of the 41st Annual American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco. We're also excited to come down to California with another fantastic Pacific Northwest film, Maiden of Deception Pass. Both will play the afternoon of November 7 at AIFF.

The film was also selected to be part of the 10th Annual LA Skins Fest. The film will play at the historic TCL Chinese Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 20 at 1 p.m. The film was also nominated for an "Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking" award at the festival.

Both the Duwamish and Chinook tribal councils will be represented at these events and speak on the panels afterwards to raise awareness for their causes.

Hayu masi and ck'wálidxw to the American Indian Film Institute and LA Skins Fest for these amazing honors and for giving the film the space to share its message.

• San Francisco: http://www.aifisf.com/film-schedule
• Los Angeles: http://laskinsfest.com/event/promised-land

New Trailer and Screening Dates for the Film!

We're so excited to show you the film's first official trailer (the one that's been up online for the last few years was just created for grant purposes while the film was in-production.) 

We finished the film this spring and we can't wait to show it to you this fall. We're so pleased to announced that it's been accepted to the 19th Annual Local Sightings Film Festival, Joshua Tree International Film Festival, the 12th Annual Ellensburg Film Festival, on top of many exciting regional shows we have planned. 

We will have dates and ticket information up on the site by the end of the week, but until then, I hope you enjoy the trailer and start thinking of ways to write your representatives (Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell spring to mind) to advocate for these tribes in the Pacific Northwest.

Off the road again...

Last Tuesday, while on a road trip up and down the coast filming, we celebrated our one year anniversary working on our documentary, Promised Land. We’ve met so many great people along the way and while we wrap production in July, we know we’ve made lifelong friends up and down the coast.

We can’t wait to share this story of the Duwamish and Chinook nations fight for sovereignty with the world. Their fight for federal recognition is an important story not just for the Pacific Northwest, but for the country at large as we, as a country, consider how we honor our promises, our past and how we move forward into our future together. When we look at one small story of these regional tribes; one still lead by the descendants of Chief Seattle, the other led by the descendants of those who fed and sheltered Lewis and Clark and controlled trade up and down the coast as the West was settled; we find we’re looking through a key hole at a larger story that connects us all: the immigrants and indigenous alike. 

Consider contributing (tax-deductible donation!) to the film here. We’ll thank you in the film credits and you can be an important part of this filmmaking endeavor: http://www.sffs.org/filmmaker360/project-development/promised-land#.U3v64lhdXIX