Weaving Worlds Bennie Klain USA, Documentary, 2007 57 min., MiniDV, Color English and Navajo with English Subtitles Hideout Theater Sunday, April 22, 4 PM All audiences

Weaving Worlds offers a fresh perspective on past the dilemmas facing Indigenous artists by emphasizing the personal stories of Navajo weavers. The film channels the voices of the weavers who reveal a hidden history of artistic appropriation, economic subjugationand the struggle to maintain cultural continuity. Resisting the pressures of globalized production, they continue to craft textiles in a process the Navajo refer to as “Nahadzáán Hadilhneeh,’’ or “reweaving the world.’’

Bennie Klain is founding partner of the Austin, Texas-based production company Trickster Films. Before earning his BS degree in Radio-Television- Film at the University of Texas at Austin, Bennie premiered two films at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, Yada Yada (co-producer) and The Return of the Navajo Boy (writer/producer/director). Since 2002, Bennie has been the Native Programming Liason for the annual Cine Las Américas Film Festival in Austin. Klain is a member of the Navajo Nation.

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Producer: Kristina Mann, Leighton C. Peterson

Production Company: Trickster Films, LLC

Screenwriter: Benny Klain

Cinematographer: Nancy Schiesari

Editing: Jayson Oaks

Music: Aaron White

Cast: Nicole Horseherder, Edith Simonson, Lorraine Herder, Elijah Blair, Gilbert Begay, Helen Bedonie, Zonnie Gilmore, Penny Null