The virtual Bluff Film Festival is a two-night event to highlight the people and issues of the Four Corners region. This free online film festival takes place Friday, October 16th and Saturday October 17th from 7-8:30pm.

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Freeride – 1 min

Director: Philipp Klein Herrero

We’ve all experienced the weight of staying at home during the pandemic. Some have tackled this problem with a creative solution

Navajo Nation Grapples with Insidious COVID-19 – 7:31 min

Director: VOA Films

A Navajo community responds to the devastating toll of the pandemic

Closed Captioning Available

La Morena- 3:24 min

Director: Pita Juarez

Lucinda Yrene is an Arizona artist who is claiming her roots and activism through her art. Her murals focus on the power of community, family and healing. You can see her pain, her love and inspiration through the guidance of her ancestors who energize her art.

Dig it if You Can – 19 min

Director: Kyle Bell

We get up close and personal with Steven Paul Judd, the dynamic and bold 21st century renaissance man. This self-taught artist’s love for pop culture and Native American art has given him a massive following.

This insightful portrait shows how Judd indigenizes the popular everyday to allow our young to see themselves in all aspects of life, while at the same time making his own dreams a reality through his passion and zest for life.

A Line in the Sand- 5 min

Directors: Chris Cresci and Justin Clifton

God bless America. Let’s save some of it.

The Bees of Grand Staircase – 20 min

Director: Matt Kelly

At a time when we need to learn everything we can about bees to protect them, the lands where they are most abundant are suddenly being threatened. The Bees of Grand Staircase-Escalante is a research and documentary film project that follows two of the nation’s most prominent bee researchers as they return to their backcountry stomping grounds in southern Utah.

Advice for Tomorrow- 5:13 min

Directors: Chris Cresci and Sam Price-Waldman

People over 80 are at the greatest risk of death from Covid-19, by far. We reached out to some of our favorite older people to get some perspective and advice on the whole situation. What follows has been condensed from many hours of phone conversations. We hope you enjoy – and call your grandparents

Indian Save The- 3 min

Director: Keanu Jones

Up and coming film maker Keanu Jones uses stunning visuals to accompany powerful advice to the Dine people.

Closed Captioning Available

They Have to Kill Us – 5:29 min

Director: Neon Nativez

This is my perspective as an Indigenous person living in America today.

Where Life Begins - 9:36 min

Director: Katie Schuler

Along the Arctic Coast, at the northmost point on American soil, we explore the inseparable bond between mother and child, the sacred and fragile moments after birth and the importance of protecting the place "Where Life Begins"

Artson - 10:30 min

Director: Sahar Khadjenoury and Nick Harris

Studio 49 is the all Indigenous Music Showcase, highlighting performers and dialogue
surrounding Indigenous communities. Artson is a descendent of the Tarahumara people.
He is recognized for his ability to connect hip-hop and indigenous culture. This is where
the old world meets the new.

NATURE MAN - 20 min

Director: Arturo Martinez, VOA Films

In 1983, Joe Pachak discovered the first rock art of a mammoth in North America, a 14,000 year-old etching. Later, he built life-size effigies of the mammoth and other effigies of animals that are burned in celebration of nature and the Winter Solstice.