Inyanka Sni

2018 / 4 MIN / USA

Months after being assaulted, a young woman is emotionally thrown-off by the presence of a man watching her as she practices self-defense. Training by herself in a park basketball court, she gets overwhelmed and has to choose to stand her ground or flee the location.

Screening Saturday, March 28, 1:00 pm

Razelle Benally

Oglala Lakota/Diné director and writer Razelle Benally currently resides on the East Coast as she attends the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at New York University as a 2nd year MFA Candidate in Film Production, focusing on Directing. Benally achieved her Undergraduate Degree in Santa Fe, NM at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is an alumna of the 2012 Sundance Film Institute Native Filmmakers Lab as well as an awardee of Sundance Film Institute’s 1st Native Short Film Production Grant Fellowship in 2015 for her project I Am Thy Weapon. She was a 2015 SWAIA Discovery Fellow and 2017 Artist in Business Leadership Fellow with the First People’s Fund. Her 2017 short film Raven has screened internationally and picked up various awards including: Best Narrative Short, Best Directing, and Best Sound. Most recently Benally directed a PSA promoting the Indigenous Vote featuring Mark Ruffalo, Tonia Jo Hall, and Shailene Woodley, which has been shared by People Magazine and Hollywood Reporter. She is currently in development of her first feature narrative film titled: Winter in Black Mesa, which has been supported through Sundance Film Institute’s 2018 Creative Producing Summit and their 2019 Women in Sundance Strategic Financing Intensive.