This project’s purpose is to educate those in and out of New Mexico, including elected officials and non-Native Americans, about the urgency to protect tribal lands. The project includes a network-worthy documentary film as well as student and teacher filmmaking workshops. Always, the message is: All land is sacred.
Defending the Fire is an official selection of the 2018 Pocahontas Reframed: Storytellers Film Festival and was screened on Sunday, November 18 at the Byrd Theater in Richmond, Virginia. pocahontasreframed.com
Silver Bullet Productions wants to give a huge shout out to the Gallup Film Festival for honoring our film, Defending the Fire , with the Best Documentary Feature award. Thank you for this award.
Defending the Fire is an official selection of the Gallup Film Festival and will open the festival on the premiere night Thursday, September 13 at 6:30 pm. After the screening, Wes Studi will be there to talk about his life as an actor and an activist as well as join in a panel with our producers about his participation in the film and what it means to fight. www.gallupfilmfestival.com
Our newest documentary, Defending the Fire, was chosen as one of the Official Selections for the Maoriland Film Festival in New Zealand and was screened on March 23. The Māoriland Film Festival is an incredible 5-day festival highlighting the stories and struggles of indigenous peoples from around the world.
Silver Bullet Productions acknowledges and thanks LANL Foundation for their generous grant allowing the free public screening of our latest documentary, “Defending the Fire”, at the Reel Theatre in Los Alamos on Thursday evening March 22, 2018.