Thanks to a nudge from @aaron.proujansky1, Cornell Cinema contacted me with the announcement of this upcoming film, which sounds like it could be a great running movie. I hope lots of you can go!
Remaining Native
Screening & Discussion with filmmaker Paige Bethmann
Thursday, March 26, at 6pm
Cornell CinemaRemaining Native is a coming-of-age documentary told from the perspective of Kutoven “Ku” Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner, struggling to navigate his dream of becoming a collegiate athlete and commemorate his great-grandfather’s escape from an Indian boarding school.
Ku Stevens is the solo runner at his high school with no coach. Living on the Yerington Paiute reservation in Northwest Nevada, he needs more to be seen by his dream school, the University of Oregon, and sets out to run a collegiate qualifying time. As he trains, Ku unearths unreconciled emotions surrounding the memory of his great-grandfather Frank Quinn, who at 8 years old ran 50 miles across the desert to escape an Indian boarding school. Frank’s story becomes interwoven with Ku’s journey and running begins to connect past, present, and future.
Free admission! Sponsored by the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program and cosponsored by the Department of Performing & Media Arts.
Filmmaker Paige Bethmann will join for a post-screening conversation with Jeffrey Palmer, Associate Professor in the Department of Performing & Media Arts.
Free tickets and more at cinema.cornell.edu.
