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Title: TWO SPIRITS Trailer
Added: Jul 3, 2009
Author: TwoSpiritsOrg
Duration: 2:26
Description:
TWO SPIRITS, the documentary directed by Lydia Nibley and produced by Say Yes Quickly Productions, will have its world premiere on Saturday, November 21 at the Starz Denver Film Festival. The film will screen at 12:30 p.m. in the 520-seat King Center Concert Hall on the University of Colorado at Denvers downtown Auraria campus, and will be followed by a panel discussion and reception.Two Spirits and the Fred Martinez Project have received the Monette-Horwitz Distinguished Achievement Award for outstanding activism, research, and scholarship to combat homophobia. And the U.S. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in Washington has joined more than fifty national organizations as an outreach partner. The documentary film interweaves the tragic story of a mothers loss of her son with a revealing look at the largely unknown history of a time when the world wasnt simply divided into male and female and many Native American cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders.Fred Martinez was nádleehí, a male-bodied person with a feminine essence, a special gift according to his ancient Navajo culture. He was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at sixteen by a young man who bragged to friends that he had bug-smashed a fag. TWO SPIRITS explores the life and death of a boy who was also a girl and the essentially spiritual nature of gender and sexuality. The film makes the case that in the twenty-first century we need to return to traditional values.
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Tags: two-spirit fred martinez navajo native native american american indian documentary documentary film outfest lgbt gay transgender hate crime anti-violence two-spirited starz denver denver film festival gender gender non-conforming lydia nibley say yes quickly
two-spirit fred martinez navajo native native american american indian documentary documentary film outfest lgbt gay transgender hate crime anti-violence two-spirited starz denver denver film festival gender gender non-conforming lydia nibley say yes quickly
Youtube Comments: 61
lifeseeker1 Says:
Mar 28, 2011 - That sounds like an interesting project.
XXBleedingrose Says:
Apr 19, 2011 - I want to watch this, but I don't have money :(
kickchick76 Says:
Jun 10, 2011 - I want to watch this. How can I get a copy?
2mom4fun Says:
Jun 14, 2011 - Heartbreaking, and eye opening. So very moving.
xander7ful Says:
Jul 5, 2011 - i read about Two Spirits long ago when I was exploring my own mixed-gender condition and was led to believe that two spirits are given roles in Amerindian tribes as spiritual leaders. Then I asked some First Nations people online about it & they had no idea what I was talking about! What is going on with these people that they've lost touch with that part of their culture? It's a tragedy.
chevychase Says:
Jul 16, 2011 - This film teaches more Native American history than all the books in the library. It should be shown in all schools and churches. A wonderful film.
Tigerpaws9097826 Says:
Jul 22, 2011 - I am uncertain, xander7ful, of whether modern Native Americans have forgotten how their culture honored Two Spirit people, or whether the idea that Two Spirits were so honored is a romanticized dream accepted by some as fact. I would prefer the former, as unfortunate as it is, but don't know the real history. That said - whichever may be the case, perhaps we ourselves, today, can at long last come to understand the spiritiual nature of Two Spirits.
jackiedavis85 Says:
Jul 28, 2011 - I have not watched this film, but I am a resident of Cortez and I went to school with Fred. We were in the same grade. I still remember when all of this happened and the shocking horror that such a crime could happen in this little town of ours. Fred was the nicest person ever, funny but quiet. It is unfortunate how rigid people are here when it comes to people with two spirits.
vaniaaguirres1 Says:
Aug 31, 2011 - Please anyone know the name of this movie? I would like to watch it,thanks
TwoSpiritsOrg Says:
Aug 31, 2011 - The name is TWO SPIRITS
pillowhole Says:
Nov 29, 2011 - THE TRUTH:Gay's ,even UGLY natives are not accepted in there own tribe ,it's not tolerable and greatly shun(avoided). Even a straight single christain man are easy targets of being rumored and label gay on the reservation but yet what's accepted is adultery; majority of native women are divorced with children's or single parents or married into other race.They are easy targets for bullying and falsely charged of a crime.Even in prison's there beaten or chased off from yards to yards.
the1tigglet Says:
Dec 24, 2011 - I would love to see this film is it completed?
the1tigglet Says:
Dec 24, 2011 - I think it's mainly due to the fact that native people's have been oppressed i the past by Christian missionaries and marrying into german, english, french families who have a long history of Christian beliefs so they were converted in the process leading up to modern times. The modern native people's are struggling to remember who they are especially the youth. I think that if they truly forgot their Christian roots it would help their society.
the1tigglet Says:
Dec 24, 2011 - what's sad is that some of their own people have been brainwashed by the fearmongering and guilt ridden process of christianization to the point of ostracizing their own people. The native people's need to listen more to their ancestors and how they were then they do to the modern churches.
windstorm1000 Says:
Dec 24, 2011 - you said it.
pillowhole Says:
Dec 24, 2011 - @the1tigglet I live close to the navajo reservation,and I've been to there schools, tc. Native christain's are rare, in the first place. They're more traditional and atheist. Yes,the white man has been teaching atheistism,and a lot of my native friends don't believe nor follow there traditions. So again the white man has caused more damages. I call it ,"two-spirits, screwed by two white man."
pillowhole Says:
Dec 24, 2011 - @the1tigglet Actually,I was told that navajo tradition is fading. Gangs,thugs,Meth,domestic violence,single parents... is extremely high on the reservation. Also they've said, when the U.S. economy collapse ,they're going to take back there stolen belongings,and ship the white man back to Europe.
adrianthewizard Says:
Jan 23, 2012 - What is the name of the song at the end?
TheXFantasyXfreak Says:
Jan 23, 2012 - My uncle just got out of jail for covering up the evidence..but he finally said something..if it wasn't for him the body wouldn't of been found..i can't tell you had bad he feels about everything still..he cries..
EthanCole15 Says:
Feb 19, 2012 - Anybody know the song??
OrganicBusiness Says:
Feb 19, 2012 - The song at the end of the trailer is Patti Smith's 'Gone Again.'
OrganicBusiness Says:
Feb 19, 2012 - The song at the end of the trailer is Patti Smith's 'Gone Again.'
brownmocha02 Says:
Mar 16, 2012 - The Navajo word used is misused a lot. When a person who has been born with both sex organs, is considered sacred and honored. If a man who dresses and acts like a woman, same with a woman who dresses and acts like a man, they aren't sacred cause they don't possess the productive organs of both sexes. Changing woman had both, thus she is our sacred Godlike person. Sorry so in no way would he be honored in our culture.
windstorm1000 Says:
Mar 27, 2011 - @BrendaQG Related to your tribe is the Ojibwe's "Agokwa"---these people were always there among their tribes--in spite of the white gov'ts/churches efforts to stamp them (like all Indian people) out--and,yes, their christianized people to ostracize them (except traditional elders)