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Racing Dreams Reel Injun
documentar
96 minutes ■ 2009 ■ USA ■ In Competition 88 minutes ■ 2009 ■ Canada
Thursday 3:10p
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Friday 12:10p
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Saturday 6:10p
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Sunday 12:10p Thursday 12:30p
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Friday 3:30p
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Saturday 10:00a
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Sunday 9:30p
Monday 9:10p Monday 6:30p
Director/Screenwriter: Marshall Curry ■ Producers: Bristol Baughan, Marshall Curry ■ Director: Neil Diamond ■ Producers: Catherine Bainbridge, Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick ■
Executive Producers: Dany Garcia, Ben Goldhirsh, Dwayne Johnson, Jack Turner ■ Executive Producers: Catherine Bainbridge, Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick, Ernest Webb ■
Cinematographers: Marshall Curry, Peter Gordon, Wolfgang Held, Alan Jacobsen ■ Editors: Screenwriters: Catherine Bainbridge, Neil Diamond, Jeremiah Hayes ■ Cinematographer:
Marshall Curry, Matthew Hamachek, Mary Manhardt ■ Music/Composers: Joel Goodman, Édith Labbé ■ Editor: Jeremiah Hayes ■ Principal Cast: Adam Beach, Clint Eastwood, Chris
The National Annabeth Barnes, Joshua Hobson, Brandon Warren Eyre, Jim Jarmusch, Sacheen Littlefeather, Russell Means, John Trudell, Jesse Wente
ies
■ Principal Cast: ■ ■
racingdreamsfilm.com reelinjunthemovie.com
A poignant and fascinating look at three kids who dream of one Cree filmmaker, Neil Diamond, takes an entertaining and in-
day racing in NASCAR. Annabeth (11 years old), Josh (12) and sightful look at the “Hollywood Indian,” exploring the portrayal
Brandon (13) compete for the World Karting Association’s Na- of native peoples from the silent era to today. Traveling through
tional Championship—clocking speeds of up to 70mph. Josh, the heartland of America, and into the Canadian North, Diamond
who started racing when he was five, is bright, focused and the looks at how the myth of “the Injun” has influenced the world’s
consumate professional. Brandon is funny and charismatic, but understanding—and misunderstanding.
his hot temper often leads him into trouble. Annabeth, the
daughter of a retired racecar driver, spends nearly every weekend
It’s a loving look at cinema through the eyes of the people who
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at the track and struggles to balance a love for racing with a de-
appeared in its very first flickering images and have survived to
sire to be a regular kid.
tell their stories their own way. The film does not reflect on the
past in anger, but rather follows the Native tradition of respect-
As they race their way through the year-long championship se- fully teasing as it features clips from hundreds of classic and re-
ries, they also navigate the treacherous road between childhood cent films that show “the Injuns” and the non-Native people who
and young adulthood. In intimate, heartfelt moments—some portrayed them in all their ridiculous guises. Candid interviews
dark, some funny—we see them battle with family dysfunction with Native and non-Native film celebrities and activists—the
and economic hardship, celebrate young romance, and struggle humor and star power is balanced with insightful commentary
to find out who they are. from film critics and historians. [adult content, violence]
Marshall Curry Neil Diamond
Director’s Statement Director’s Statement
This is actually a coming of age story disguised People asked me about Native people when
as a racing movie. I think that pre-adolescence is I first moved to the south to study. Like, did
probably the most important, poignant and we still live in teepees and ride horses?
under-explored stage in our lives. It’s really when Being a sub-arctic Cree, I couldn’t believe
we are beginning to figure out who we are, how how naïve they were, until I realized their
we relate to our parents, what romance feels like and what we want to idea of Natives came mostly from the films
do. I hope that this movie will take people back to that age, and remind they’d watched. Then I understood: there was a time, as a boy,
us of the dreams we had—to be President, or a baseball player, or what- when I thought that was how my ancestors had lived, too.
ever. Back before we knew about the importance of money or connec-
tions or how hard things were going to be, and we just dreamed.
Like most young boys growing up in the ‘60s, I was a huge fan of
cowboy-and-Indian movies. Almost every Saturday night, the In-
NASCAR fans have been considered a crucial voting block in the dian residential school chapel screen was filled with the sights
last few elections, and North Carolina and Michigan—where our and sounds of gunfights and whooping Indians on horseback.
characters are from—are both swing states. People have told me After church the following day, our games consisted of us recre-
that the film changed their view of racing and, more important, ating the entire film from the night before.
of race fans.
Filmography: Cree Spoken Here, Heavy Metal: A Mining Disaster in Northern Quebec, The
Filmography: Street Fight (2006 AIFF) Last Explorer, One More River
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