6:30pm -10:00PM

Friday Evening

Join us for an evening of curated films that highlight issues important to the American Southwest.

Grab a chair and sit out or drive up and watch from your vehicle at our FREE outdoor film festival located in the parking lot of the Bluff Community Center (3rd East & Mulberry Ave).

2025 Selected Films

Monumental Moment

(15 min)

Director: Peter McBride

A shy Havasupai teen finds her voice in the fight to protect the Grand Canyon, only to face a new battle when powerful forces move to strip away it’s monument status.

What The River Knows

(34 min)

Director: Will Buckley & Diego Riley

A lost eden drowned under Lake Powell re-emerges, revealing the follies of the past and a new way forward for the Colorado River.

Seldom Seen Sleight

(13 min)

Director: Taylor Graham

As a rafting outfitter in the 1950s, Ken Sleight built his life around the Colorado River’s Glen Canyon. He became one of the Glen’s most passionate advocates when it disappeared beneath the waters of Lake Powell in 1963. Today, Ken remains dedicated to the fight to see his beloved canyons returned to their former glory.

Hopi Pottery: Connections Through Time

(13 min)

Director: Daniel Byers, Carrie Heitman, Karen Charley

Follow Hopi artists as they reconnect with the art of their ancestors, bringing back lost patterns from collections in New York to their practice at First Mesa.

Hunt’s Trading Post

(11 min)

Director: Vee Hua

Operated by a Navajo Nation citizen, Hunt’s Trading Post serves Native community in a white town.

Tiger

(13 min)

Director: Loren Waters

“Tiger” highlights an Indigenous award-winning, internationally acclaimed artist and elder, Dana Tiger, her family, and the resurgence of the iconic Tiger t-shirt company.

Navajo Nation: Reclaiming the Plate

(11 min)

Director: Louie Psihoyos

Navajo Nation: Reclaiming the Plate is a powerful short documentary following the Navajo community as they work to heal themselves by reclaiming their pre-colonial food traditions.

PLUS MORE TO COME!

2023 Selected Films

LA MORENA

THE LAND OF NEESHJIZHII

JOE BUFFALO

TAD’S EMERGING WORLD

Director: Pita Juarez

“La Morena” highlights, Chicana Artist, Lucinda Hinojos, also known as La Morena. Lucinda is a single mom, a victim of domestic violence and an immigrants rights activist in Phoenix, AZ.

Director: Kaela Waldstein, Mountain Mover Media

Nonprofit organization Healthy Futures Inc and Indigenous communities come together to help promote and preserve the heritage of Diné farming and traditional foods.

Director: Amar Chebib

Joe Buffalo is an Indigenous skateboard legend. He’s also a survivor of the notorious Indian Residential School system. Following a traumatic childhood and decades of addiction, Joe must face his inner demons to realize his dream of turning pro.

Director: Dawn Kish

A photographic journey with adventure/conservation photographer Dawn Kish into Glen Canyon as it emerges from 60 years of being under water using legendary photographer Tad Nichols’ 4×5 Crown Graphic film camera.

WALK WITH PRIDE

WALKING TWO WORLDS

SHERI

Director: Kaela Waldstein, Mountain Mover Media

Every year, the Santa Fe Indian Market culminates with a Haute Couture Fashion Show highlighting Indigenous fashion designers who look to their cultural past to create innovative designs representing the now.

Director: Maia Wikler

Quannah Chasinghorse is pursuing her dream of becoming an Indigenous super-model, breaking barriers fueled by the love and responsibility of her sacred homelands.

Director: James “Q” Martin

Passion for design and innovation has no age and this led Sheri Tingey to revolutionize the outdoor gear industry. A heartwarming story from the Four Corners about overcoming big hurdles, despite the odds.

2022 Selected Films

VOICES OF THE GRAND CANYON

OUR STORY – THE INDIGENOUS LED EFFORT TO PROTECT GREATER CHACO

DUES

WEAVING THE PATH

Director: Deidra Peaches

Before the Grand Canyon was a national park, it was the ancestral homeland of Native peoples. Hear voices of the Grand Canyon speak.

Director: Michael Ramsey and Daniel Tso

Over 90% of the available lands in the Greater Chaco have already been leased for oil and gas extraction. Over the course of three years, Navajo and Pueblo leadership have been intimately collaborating to tell their stories in this film as they struggle to protect what little remains of this sacred landscape, including the World Heritage Site Chaco National Historical Park in the SW United States.

Director: Michael R.L Begay

Bobbie Willson aka “DUES” is Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota before the journey of Creating the hit T.V. Show “FX Reservation Dogs”, & a founding member of the 1491s Indian Sketch Comedy Group he still stays connected to his original passion for Graffiti street art. Michael R.L. Begay’s Documentary follows street Artist Dues through his one-month residency in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Director: Cristobal Ruiz

For centuries, weaving has formed an integral part of the Coast Salish communities’ culture. This film explores the life of Debra Sparrow together with the cultural and spiritual meaning that weaving has had in her life and the Coast Salish communities. For Debra “this is not art as you know it, but a way of life as we know it”.

Support for the Bluff Film Festival is provided by Stewardship Utah’s Rural Utah Project. We greatly appreciate the use of their film equipment.