The Roxbury International Film Festival acknowledges that our festival screenings and events take place on the unceded land of the Massachusett people. We ask that you join us in acknowledging and honoring the Massachusett community, their elders both past and present, as well as future generations. WE ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE AND HONOR THE NIPMUC Pennacook, Pocumtuck, Mahican, Nauset, and Wampanoag PEOPLE.
This acknowledgement demonstrates a commitment to continue working to staNd in solidarity with native peoples and dismantle the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism.
This land acknowledgement was created with the guidance of the Guide to Indigenous Land and Territorial Acknowledgements for Cultural Institutions and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s land acknowledgement.
SEE THE LINKS BELOW FOR MORE INFORMATION, HISTORY, AND RESOURCES:
TO LEARN ABOUT SOME INDIGENOUS STORIES THROUGH FILM, SEE THIS LIST OF SOME OF OUR RECENT FESTIVAL SELECTIONS:
Homage to Our Ancestors (2022)
Diiyeghan naii Taii Tr’eedaa (We Will Walk the Trail of our Ancestors) (2022)
Weckuwapasihtit (Those Yet to Come) (2022)
Johnny Crow (2022)
Bounty (2022)
Almost an Island (2021)
Ecologies of Acknowledgement (2021)
Without a Whisper (2020)
Sisters Rising (2020)
Warrior Women (2019)
L’eau est la vie (Water is Life): From Standing Rock to the Swamp (2019)
Have any resources we should add here? Please let us know at roxfilmfest@gmail.com!