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Shining Mountains Film Festival Presents: Shorts
BUY TICKETSOctober 18 @ 2:00 pm
Let My People Go Skiing
Against The Current
Bucking on The Rez
Courage
Across the West, climate change is putting snow sports like skiing at risk. For Indigenous skiers, that adds to a long history of exclusion from the sport. Let My People Go Skiing is a new film highlighting those challenges and some of the possible solutions. The film follows Ellen Bradley, the film’s director and a Lingít skier, to her homelands in Southeast Alaska, where she works with Alaska Native Youth.
Against The Current: 27 Minutes
Native American teen activist 17-year-old Daunnette Moniz-Reyome shares her family’s journey to retain the sacred rituals and values of their culture.
Bucking on The Rez: 22 Minutes
Amid swirling dust and untamed horizon, Kristal saddles up to challenge sexism and adulthood as she navigates the world of bull riding on the Navajo Nation reservation.
Monumental Moment: 15 Minutes
For years, shy and soft-spoken teenager Maya Tilousi-Lyttle has been protesting uranium mining on the border of Grand Canyon National Park with her mother, Havasupai advocate Carletta Tilousi. On Aug. 8, 2023, she spoke powerfully from a podium moments before President Joe Biden signed the proclamation declaring Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.
The monument represented a form of long-sought permanent protection for a region that holds irreplaceable significance to the Indigenous peoples who have called it home for millennia. But in January 2025, the Arizona legislature and others filed lawsuits attempting to overturn the monument designation and attacking the Antiquities Act as unlawful. The fight continues, and it is up to Maya’s generation to make their voices heard.