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CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on March 21st, 2024, reviewing the new streaming series “Manhunt” – based on the bestseller by James L. Swanson – currently streaming on Apple TV+.
Podtalk: Aviva Kempner for ‘Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 20, 2023 - 7:02pm
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Directed by Aviva Kempner and Ben West
Photo credit: Ciesla Foundation
“Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting” is currently in theaters, see local listings. Directed by Aviva Kempner and Ben West. Not Rated. For Aviva Kempner’s The Ciesla Foundation, click CieslaFoundation.org.
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CHICAGO – Award winning documentary filmmaker Aviva Kempner is making an appearance in Chicago on behalf of her latest film – co-directed with Ben West – on the continuing controversy regarding sports teams named after Native American tribes and images. “Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting” will screen at the Gene Siskel Film Center, with Aviva Kempner and Ben West in attendance on Friday, April 21st, 2023. Click IMAGINING for tickets and more information.
The film is an illuminating examination of the movement to end the misappropriation of Native culture. Documenting the origins of the words, images, and gestures that many Native people and their allies find harmful, Aviva Kempner and Ben West (Cheyenne) powerfully chronicle the impact that marginalization of history has had on those peoples, and the social movements to force sports teams at all levels – including locally the Chicago Blackhawks – to change their offensive names.
Directed by Aviva Kempner and Ben West
Photo credit: Ciesla Foundation
Aviva Kempner has been making award-winning documentaries for more than 40 years, with an emphasis on rediscovering and celebrating lesser-known Jewish heroes. These include “The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg” (1998, named Best Documentary by the NY Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, National Board of Review and the Peabody Award), “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg” (2009, about radio/TV pioneer Gertrude Berg), “Rosenwald” (2015, about Chicago philanthropist Julius Rosenwald) and “The Spy Behind Home Plate” (2019, about major leaguer Moe Berg and his key spying for the U.S. before World War II).
In a Podtalk with Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com, documentary filmmaker Aviva Kempner talks “Imagining the Indian” …
Trailer for “Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting” …
 | By PATRICK McDONALD |
