CREATIVES on WRFI: ‘Remaining Native’ a Conversation with Indigenous Filmmaker Paige Bethmann
This special interview with Paige Bethmann is scheduled to air on Monday December 1st from 5-6pm and on Saturday December 6th from 10-11am hosted by Zoë Van Nostrand. Tune in at 88.1 Ithaca, 89.7 Southern Finger Lakes, 91.9 Watkins Glen or stream from anywhere at WRFI.org/listen
Tune in for two special broadcasts of CREATIVES on WRFI an interview with Indigenous filmmaker Paige Bethmann on her new documentary 'Remaining Native'
Zoë Van Nostrand interviews Paige Bethmann (Mohawk & Oneida) on her recent documentary Remaining Native which will be showing at Cinemapolis with a filmmaker talkback on December 7th at 2:30pm in collaboration with the Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀLearning Project. This screening of "Remaining Native" is made possible in full with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.
Paige Bethmann is a Haudenosaunee from the Mohawk and Oneida communities, and has worked in non-fiction television for various digital and broadcast networks such as ESPN, PBS, Vox Media, Youtube Originals, USA, and NBC. She is a graduate of Ithaca College, with a bachelor’s degree in Film, Television, and Radio from the Park School of Communications. Remaining Native is her first feature film.
The interview explores Paige's role and identity as a storyteller in her community, and the responsibility she feels as a descendant of a boarding school survivor in telling the story of Ku and his relationship with his grandfather who ran away from his residential boarding school through the Nevada desert three separate times as a child. The interview explores the role of the sacred in the film, and Ku's athleticism as a teenage track star aiming to run at University of Oregon.
Trigger Warning(s): The interview discusses the impact of residential boarding schools on Indigenous communities
ABOUT THE FILM
'Remaining Native' a documentary told from the perspective of Ku Stevens (Yerington Paiute), a 17-year-old Native American runner, struggling to navigate his dream of becoming a collegiate athlete as the memory of his great-grandfather's escape from an Indian boarding school begins to connect past, present, and future.
Learn more about the film at remainingnativedocumentary.com