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The Bismarck Native American Film Series presents “Barking Water,”

Presented by Bismarck State College at Bismarck State College National Energy Center of Excellence Auditorium - Room 304

May 5, 2010

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The Bismarck Native American Film Series presents “Barking Water,” May 5, 2010, 6-9 p.m. in the Bismarck State College National Energy Center of Excellence Auditorium - Room 304. A discussion with the director of the film, Sterlin Harjo, will follow the film. Barking Water was an Official Selection for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and is produced by Indion Entertainment Group along with Indion Production and Dolphn Bay Film. Sterlin Harjo belongs to the Seminole and Creek Nations, and is a native of Holdenville, Oklahoma. Interested from an early age in visual art and film, Harjo studied painting at the University of Oklahoma before writing his first feature-length script. Since then he has studied screenwriting in the University of Oklahoma's Film and Video Studies Program and under the Sundance Institute's Feature Film Program. In 2004, Sundance Institute selected Harjo to receive an Annenberg Fellowship which provided extended support over a two-year period to facilitate the creation of his feature project. In 2006 Harjo was in the first class of United States Artists award recipients. He was also the youngest recipient. Sterlin Harjo completed a year of development on his feature film script FOUR SHEETS TO THE WIND through the Sundance Institute’s Filmmaker Labs where he worked under the guidance of industry veterans such as Robert Redford, Stanley Tucci, Joan Tewkesbury, Susan Shilliday, Frank Pierson, Walter Mosley, and Antonia Bird. Sterlin’s project was one of 12 projects chosen from a pool of almost 2,500 based on the uniqueness of his voice, the originality of his story and the promise of this feature film offering something poignant to American cinema. Harjo has directed three short films CROOKED LITTLE HEART, THEY'RE PLAYING HIS SONG, and GOOD NIGHT IRENE which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 05 and went on to play festivals around the world. The short film has garnered Harjo awards including Special Jury Recognition at the Aspen Shorts Festival and Best Oklahoma Film at the Dead Center film festival in Oklahoma City. In January 2007 Harjo’s first feature film, FOUR SHEETS TO THE WIND, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film garnered warm responses from both audiences and critics. Tamara Podemski won a Special Jury Prize for outstanding performance for her role in the film as Miri Smallhill. Harjo’s new film BARKING WATER had a successful premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and it recently screened as a part of the highly acclaimed New Directors/New Film series in New York City. Barking Water is the only American film playing in the Venice Days section of the 2009 Venice Film Festival. The Bismarck Native American Film Series is sponsored by: ND Indian Affairs Commission, United Tribes Technical College, Bismarck State College, Cinema 100, ND Center for the Public Good and Prairie Independent