RETURN

Screenings

Friday, March 20, 2020 | Pam Bailey Film Series Common House at 140 Prairie Hill Lane, Iowa City 7:00 PM Admission: FREE Please join us for blue corn scones and a Q & A after the screening.

Saturday, March 14, 2020 | Mary Pickford Theatre  36850 Pickfair St, Cathedral City, CA 3:00 PM

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian has partnered with the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians to present the Smithsonian National Museum of American Indian’s Native Cinema Showcase (NCS) in Palm Springs, California, Friday, March 13 – Saturday, March 14, 2020. The showcase will be a compilation of the best films we have screened in previous years and RETURN has been selected for inclusion.

Friday, March 6, 2020 | Films for the Future: Reclaiming Ownership of Native Health UC Theater at University of Montana 32 Campus Dr, Missoula, MT 6:30 PM

In celebration of the UM Library's hosting of the exhibit, "Native Voices: Native People's Concepts of Health and Illness" please join us for an evening of films and discussion about Native health in the 21st century. There is no fee to attend to this event.

Saturday, February 29, 2020 | 3rd Annual Food Films Pop-Up Fest THE MINIPLEX at Richards’ Goat Tavern  401 I Street, Arcata, CA (corner of Somoa & I Street) 4:00 & 6:00 PM Admission: FREE

The Humboldt Food Policy Council invites you to the 3rd annual Food Film Pop-Up Fest at THE MINIPLEX! This event will feature a selection of short, creative films that aim to inspire audience members to think differently about what's on their plate and create a deeper connection to the places and people that provide our food. 

November 21, 2019 | Native American Speakers Series UNC Pembroke—Department of Native American Studies, Moore Hall, 1 University Dr., Pembroke, North Carolina

November 19, 2019 | Big Sky Film Institute Big Sky Film Institute, home to the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, is a nonprofit based in Missoula, MT, nurturing and elevating non-fiction films that have the power to transform our world, our culture, our youth, and ourselves by deep diving into global stories. In 2018, BSFI introduced the Native Filmmaker Initiative in aims of bringing more Indigenous stories to the festival, support and engage the Indigenous media arts community and have a greater impact on community youth.

October 25, 2019 | Capital Harvest Conference Arlington Hilton, 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, Virginia

Thursday October 17, 2019 | Third Street Friends Monthly Meeting Corner of Madison Street and Third Street. Ithaca, New York

September 19-22, 2019 | Full Bloom Film Festival 203 S Meeting St, Statesville, NC

September 15, 2019 | Seeds of Native Health Conference: Fourth Annual Conference on Native American Tradition
Mystic Lake Center, 2400 Mystic Lake Blvd, Prior Lake, Minnesota

Saturday, July 20, 2019 | 2019 Native POP: People of the Plains—A Gathering of Arts and Culture Cinema Showcase SDPB Black Hills Studio, 415 Main Street, Rapid City, South Dakota

June 22, 2019 | Museum of Danish America—Midsummer Festival 2212 Washington Street, Elk Horn IA

June 4-5, 2019 | N.W. Tribal Food Sovereignty Coalition—2019 Spring Gathering Event Skokmish Tribe Community Center, 19731 US-101, Skokomish, WA

May 25, 2019 | Anishinaabe Racial Justice Conference Niiwin Akeaa Community Center 111 Beartown Road, Baraga, MI 49908

May 17, 2019 |Cedar Lane Universalist Church 9601 Cedar Lane, Bethesda, MD

Friday, April 26, 2019 | AICHO Galleries
202 W. 2nd Street, Duluth, MN

Friday, April 26, 2019 | SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN—Washington, D.C.Living Earth Festival 2019

March 19, 2019 | Broadcast on select PBS stations nationwide

March 13, 2019 | Restoring Shoshone Ancestral Food Gathering
Wind River Hotel and Casino Convention Center, 10269 State Hwy 789, Riverton, WY

March 12, 2019 | Restoring Shoshone Ancestral Food Gathering
Rocky Mountain Hall, Fort Washakie, Wyoming

March 12, 2019 | Restoring Shoshone Ancestral Food Gathering
Wyoming Indian High School Tec Center, 636 Blue Sky Hwy, Ethete, WY

March 8, 2019 | 2019 Vision Maker Film Festival: Indigenous Women's Films
Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Center, 1800 North 33rd Street, Lincoln, NE

March 1, 2019 | 16th Annual Indigenous Farming Conference Film Festival
Maplelag Resort, 30501 Maplelag Rd, Callaway, MN, White Earth Reservation

February 23, 2019 | Santa Fe Indian Center
Center for Progress and Justice, 1420 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, NM

February 17, 2019 | Santa Fe Film Festival—New Mexico Docs: Shorts Program
Unitarian Universalist Church, 107 W Barcelona Rd, Santa Fe, NM

February 7, 2019 | Santa Barbara International Film Festival—Screen Cuisine Shorts
Metro Theatre Aud #2

February 6, 2019 | Santa Barbara International Film Festival—Screen Cuisine Shorts
Metro Theatre Aud #1

January 29, 2019 | Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
Social Services Building, 17337 Reservation Rd, La Conner, WA

January 9, 2019 | Patient Education Kitchen
Lake County Tribal Health Consortium, 925 Bevins Court, Lakeport, California

December 10, 2018| London International Short Film Festival

Kino Bermondsey, 
10 Bermondsey Square, London SE1 3UN, UK

November 18, 2018 | 5th Annual Pueblo Film Fest — Empowering Women through Film
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th St NW, Albuquerque, NM

October 15, 2018 | University of Northern Iowa Center for Multicultural Education
Cedar Falls, Iowa
Sponsored by the Dorothy Pearlman Finkel Memorial Film Series.

October 3/4, 2018 | Seeds of Native Health Conference: Third Annual Conference on Native American Tradition
Mystic Lake Center, 2400 Mystic Lake Blvd, Prior Lake, Minnesota
Valerie Segrest, featured in the film, conducted a Q&A along with Mary Paganelli. Sponsored by Arizona Cactus Ranch.

September 5, 2018 | Citivan Club Monthly Dinner Meeting
Pecos Trail Inn, Santa Fe, NM—Private event

September 1, 2018 | Roxanne Swentzell Tower Gallery Monthly Event
78 Cities of Gold Road, Santa Fe, NM

August 16, 2018 | Native Cinema Showcase: Reclamation Shorts Program
The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) selected RETURN for inclusion in its Native Cinema Showcase, held at the New Mexico History Museum.

July 13, 2018 | Santa Fe Premiere of RETURN
The Lodge at Santa Fe
Sponsored by The McCune Charitable Foundation.

COMMENTS & REVIEWS

“The film also touches on the emotional and spiritual benefits of a return to a pre-contact diet, and the relationship between food sovereignty and tribal sovereignty.... Her purpose in making the film, Cantor says, was to communicate some of the positive things happening in the Native American community. She hopes the takeaway for viewers will be the awareness that ‘they can make a difference in their own lives and in their wider communities – and that part of the difference comes from something as basic as food.” — Patricia West-Barker “The politics of dinner: ‘Return: Reclaiming Native American Foodways for Health and Spirit’,” for Pasatiempo, New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM), August 10, 2018.

“What an engaging film. By the end I was thinking about how I could eat better.” 

“The geographic range of the stories lets me know the film is telling a truly national story.”  

“RETURN is an important and well-done documentary – engaging, intriguing, and valuable.” 

“Regaining ‘food sovereignty’ seems such a great portal through which to reclaim at least some of Native Americans’ stolen past.” 

“Such a respectful, inspiring and powerful piece!” 

“The variety of people featured and perspectives really painted a great picture and told a broader story.”

“Highlighting … a return to eating pre-colonial foods can also be a vehicle for increasing physical activity, getting a deeper understanding/appreciation for ones own history and culture, and that this can be done in today's world.”

“Ms. Cantor’s video was brilliant! Very informative, insightful, and the information was from a first person view of the indigenous peoples.”

Interested in screening RETURN at your own university/school, organization, community, or public agency?

Get in touch at info@singingwolfdocs.org