Chicago’s first annual American Indian film festival will take place Friday through Tuesday, January 20 through 24, at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton. Facets is presenting the festival in collaboration with the American Indian Health Service of Chicago and the Heye Foundation’s Museum of the American Indian in New York. Tickets for each of the five programs are $5.00; series tickets are $20, and tickets to the reception for the Chicago makers of Box of Treasures at 8:30 on Friday, January 20, are $10. Advance tickets are available from the American Indian Health Service, 838 W. Irving Park, 883-9100. For further information, call Facets at 281-4114.
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PROGRAM 4 Two films that deal with a traditional native perspective on healing in relation to contemporary Western medicine. Barbara Wilk’s 1981 short Emergence re-creates an aspect of Navajo healing; Linda Harrar’s 1984 short feature Make My People Live is concerned with the nationwide crisis reflected in the fact that American Indians have the worst health of any segment of the U.S. population. (Sunday, January 22, 5:30, and Tuesday, January 24, 7:00)
