CONTRARY WARRIOR
82-minutes
Although best known for orchestrating the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 that led to to significant social reforms for all Native Americans, Fortunate Eagle is also a sculptor, author, spiritual leader, and celebrated ceremonial pipe maker.
Filmed in Nevada on the Paiute-Shoshone reservation, Contrary Warrior is an intimate first-person account of the life of American Indian Adam Fortunate Eagle activist, artist, ceremonial leader, and "enemy of the state," as proclaimed by the FBI in 1969.
From CINEMA WITHOUT BORDERS' Review by Robin Menken:
"John Ferry's Contrary Warrior- The Life and Times Of Adam Fortunate Eagle is a moving portrait of the renowned Native American artist-activist, Adam Fortunate Eagle Nordwall...Fortunate Eagle Nordwall is a National Treasure and Ferry's film is a worthy introduction to his life."
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MUSEUMS & SCREENINGS
FILM FESTS & AWARDS
PBS
► For two years in a row the film aired on over 90 PBS and Public Television stations.
► NIT in Australia aired the film continuously nationally for over four years.
►Oklahoma City Museum Art.
►Cine En El Barrio. Guadalupe Theater, San Antonio, TX.
►Festival of Books, Sioux Falls, SD. S Special showing in connection with a live presentation by Adam Fortunate Eagle honoring his book, Pipestone: My Life In An Indian Boarding School.
►Occupy Reno, Reno, Nevada. Special screening November, 2011.
►The American Ethnic Studies Department and the Ethnic Studies Club at Santa Barbara City College for Native American Heritage Month.
Top left: sketching hieroglyphics in Nevada.
Center left: with Pope Paul at the Vatican.
Bottom left: Indian sign at Alcatraz.
Bottom right: One of Adam's marble sculptures.
►Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, in Austin, Tx where it won the Audience Choice Award for Documentary Feature.
►Canada International Film Festival, Vancouver - Winner of the Rising Star award.
►Nevada International Film Festival, in Las Vegas, where it won the Platinum Reel Award for Documentary Feature.
►American Indian Film Festival - San Francisco. Official Selection.
► Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
►Big Water Film Festival Wisconsin.
►Petaluma International Film Festival.
►Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival, Canada.
►Stories In Motion Film Festival, Lawrence, KS.
