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SUMMARY:Dystopian Futures: Night Raiders
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DESCRIPTION:In-person:\nQ&A with filmmaker Danis Goulet moderated by author
	 and UCLA School of Theater\, Film and Television Professor Kathleen McHug
	h.\n\nAdmission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assign
	ed to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assign
	ed on a first come\, first served basis. The box office opens one hour bef
	ore the event.\n\nPumzi\nKenya\, 2009\n\nSet 35 years after World War III\
	, during the Water War\, in Maitu Community\, East African Territory\, Pum
	zi is the story of Asha\, who lives in this indoor and fully sustainable c
	ommunity. A depleted planet\, devoid of vegetation\, has forced the commun
	ity to be 100 percent self-sufficient\; residents must recycle their sweat
	 and urine\, turning it into drinking water. When Asha\, an employee at th
	e virtual natural history museum\, discovers a package of soil with a high
	 water content\, she breaks protocol and plants a tree seed. Pumzi brings 
	to the forefront the inextricable link between authoritarian rule and the 
	power struggle for environmental resources\, and within those tensions\, t
	he possibility of individual dreams of a replenished green planet. —Maya M
	ontañez Smukler\n\nDCP\, color\, 21 min. Director/Screenwriter: Wanuri Kah
	iu. With: Kudzani Moswela\, Nicole Bailey\, Chantelle Burger.\n\n \n\nNigh
	t Raiders\nCanada/New Zealand\, 2021\n\nChildren are the most vulnerable a
	nd\, as a result\, the most valuable members of Night Raiders’ dystopian s
	ociety. Niska (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers) and her young daughter Waseese (Br
	ooklyn Letexier-Hart) have taken refuge in the woods in order to escape a 
	military-controlled state that regulates the lives of children. When Niska
	 encounters a group of Cree who have been organizing raids to save childre
	n captured by the government\, she must weigh the decision to act as an in
	dividual and protect only her daughter\, or join the vigilantes and fight 
	on behalf of everyone’s families. The film was nominated for 11 Canadian S
	creen Awards\, winning six. “I think we're on the precipice of a golden ag
	e of Indigenous cinema\,” filmmaker Danis Goulet\, who is Cree/Metis\, tol
	d the press during the film’s release. Through cinematic allegory\, Night 
	Raiders’ speculative future unpacks a traumatic past experienced by Indige
	nous people and the children who survived North America’s residential scho
	ol era. The film’s Cree-led resistance forges an alliance across generatio
	ns\, cultivating a collective knowledge that will act as the group’s best 
	weapon against the totalitarian state and a colonial past to reclaim their
	 future.—Maya Montañez Smukler\n\nDCP\, color\, 101 min. Director/Screenwr
	iter: Danis Goulet. With: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers\, Brooklyn Letexier-Hart
	\, Alex Tarrant.\n\nEvent Website: https://alumni.ucla.edu/event/dystopian
	-futures-night-raiders/\n\nEvent Website: https://alumni.ucla.edu/wp-json/
	tribe/events/v1/events/142976\n\nSource: https://community.ucla.edu/event/
	0690a570-7d4e-0709-5581-47183d797fda
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
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