The American Indian Film Festival celebrates it's 35th year when it opens tonight at the Landmark Embarcadero Center Cinema, in San Francisco. While there appear to be several good films, I'm most intrigued by the animation program that opens on Saturday, a collection of 12 shorts anchored by the 75-minute CGI feature The Legend of Secret Pass. The main feature is in post-production, but the trailer is compelling. A number of seasoned actors provided the voice talent (Frankie Muniz; the iconic Graham Greene; David Cross, who voiced Crane in Kung Fu Panda; as well as David Chiklis, Debi Derryberry, and Ron Perlman, among others):
It should be noted that not all of the films are small-child friendly in theme, though older teens might be able to handle some of the material. (To be fair, I haven't seen any of these, myself.) The potentially most disturbing shorts appear after the main feature: Waseteg, a story of a mother trying to protect her children from domestic abuse; and Lumaajuuq, about a boy seeking revenge against his mother, who deliberately blinded him and fed him dog meat. While each of these may have a redemptive moral appropriate for teens (in Lumaajuuq, the boy discovers that revenge is not the wisest path), the lesson might possibly be lost on little ones. That said, perhaps you'll want to take them to get more popcorn during each of these, and come back to catch the other, evidently charming short films.
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