AfroNative Narratives Documentary
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The Black Native Narratives is an interactive documentary project with the goal of highlighting the Black Native (also referred to as AfroNative) experience in contemporary America. Usually left to a few pages in history books, this is an identity that is generally overlooked and highly controversial. Some of the themes of this project are the tribal rolls, and DNA testing as a basis of heritage, as well as who and how culture is defined.
The project is primarily video and written interviews conducted all over North America. This includes Canadian and Central American indigenous tribes because assigning an American border to North American tribes is completely arbitrary to indigenous identity, and would discount the experiences of thousands of people with shared backgrounds.
Because of travel costs, each video costs about $1500. This includes airfair for two, rental car and hotel. We are aiming to do about 6-7 videos with this and future funding.
Our current updates to the project are found here
All of the work is created by
Director Macha Rose
Photojournalist Michael Santiago
Producer Adrien Heckstall
In partnership with ILoveAncestry.com
The project is primarily video and written interviews conducted all over North America. This includes Canadian and Central American indigenous tribes because assigning an American border to North American tribes is completely arbitrary to indigenous identity, and would discount the experiences of thousands of people with shared backgrounds.
Because of travel costs, each video costs about $1500. This includes airfair for two, rental car and hotel. We are aiming to do about 6-7 videos with this and future funding.
Our current updates to the project are found here
All of the work is created by
Director Macha Rose
Photojournalist Michael Santiago
Producer Adrien Heckstall
In partnership with ILoveAncestry.com
Organiser
Macha Rose
Organiser
Oakland, CA