Empowered: Helping Native Youth See Their Power Within | movie | 2019 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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For four years, the Jicarilla Apache Nation's Johnson O'Malley program, led by Lynn Roanhorse, and Holt Hamilton Films h | dG1fRFRaR3h0S0R6bDg

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00:00As Tristan walks backwards, I need you to put your hand on him.

00:14Camera rolling.

00:15Rolling.

00:16Camera speed.

00:17Action.

00:18I'm really impressed with the young filmmakers here, and equally impressed with the support

00:25system they have.

00:26The ultimate goal is to have the youth make a film, from the writing stage to the editing,

00:32and then share it with the community.

00:33How can we service K-12 in a very strategic way to supplement the schools?

00:42Let's do a film fest.

00:46It turns those youth around.

00:49The ones that are real quiet, pretty soon they're outgoing, and, you know, it's making

00:53a difference in their lives.

00:56It's really cool to encourage the younger kids, or the kids that don't really do much,

01:01to come out and try it.

01:02I've learned how to work a camera, and lighting, some acting tips.

01:07This is the first time I've done any of this, and it's a pretty fun experience.

01:12So this is a very specific tool for the film industry.

01:15It's called a C-stand, a century stand.

01:18It makes them feel like they're a part of something, something very powerful.

01:23The young people were innately curious.

01:26They all had an original point of view, and they all saw the world in pictures.

01:32You have youth that have never touched a video camera, or maybe they've used their phone.

01:36They're at a level where they're brand new to the process.

01:38They're coming in.

01:39They're writing a story in pre-production, coming up with their own story.

01:43We're not there giving them, this is a story you have to do.

01:45They come up with their own.

01:46They're finding the actors.

01:47Who do they want in front of the camera?

01:49They're learning how to do the sound, how to operate the camera on that production,

01:53and then they're going into the editing process and learning that.

01:58The world premiere is the culminating event.

02:01They're going to show their film to the world.

02:06It was just awesome, the scene that they shot for like maybe an hour, and the kids were

02:12so proud, and they were beaming.

02:14Get into it, make its actual call, so it can make it look as realistic as possible.

02:19Oh, this is a good movie.

02:24It was scary, but it was like the actual real thing.

02:27Our seniors that are graduating this year, almost every one of them is going to college.

02:33Native communities that want to do this, you can do it.

02:38We have to invest in them, and this is a good way to do it.

Empowered: Helping Native Youth See Their Power Within | movie | 2019 | Official Trailer

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