''Up Heartbreak Hill'' - Free Documentary Film Screening
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Name:''Up Heartbreak Hill'' - Free Documentary Film Screening
Date:February 26, 2013
Event Description:
Free Documentary Film Screening: Up Heartbreak Hill by Erica Scharf
Film Synopsis: Thomas and Tamara are track starts at their rural New Mexico high school. Like many teenagers, they are torn between the lure of brighter futures elsewhere and the ties that bind them to home. For these teens, however, home is an impoverished town on the Navajo reservation, and leaving means separating from tamily, tradition and the land that has been theirs for generations. Erica Scharf's Up Heartbreak Hill" is a moving look at a new generation of Americans struggling to be both Native and modern. This film is a co-production of Long Distance Films, Native American Public Telecommunications, ITVS, POV's Diverse Voices Project and New Mexoco, PBS, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. A co-presentation with Native American Public Telecommunications. This event is a collaboration with the award-winning documentary series POV (www.pbs.org/pov). Run Time: 60 minutes.
For more information about the film or to watch a trailer, please see http://www.pbs.org/pov/upheartbreakhill/
For questions, please call the Heritage Park and Cultural Center at 850.833.9595 or email hpcc@fwb.org.
