Category: News
Returning to Nyae Nyae: Community Connection Through Film Repatriation
In October 2024, DER Executive Director Alice Apley and Technical and Creative Director Frank Aveni had the honor of traveling to southern Africa as part of a film repatriation initiative.
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DER Partners with ORIAS to Promote Media Literacy Learning
In collaboration with the Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) at UC Berkeley and 25 participating federally funded centers for area studies at universities across the country, DER launched an online film program for K-12 teachers in 2023 with the dual goals of providing teachers with resources and tools to promote film literacy and introducing K-12 resource centers and teachers to the DER catalog.
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Exhibition in South Africa featuring the Marshall films: Bringing Back the Archive
We are delighted to announce an exhibition featuring John Marshall’s films and Marshall expedition photos now open at the !Khwa ttu San Heritage Center outside Cape Town, South Africa. The exhibit opened in September 2023, following a multi-year collaboration between !Khwa ttu, Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and DER.
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DER Receives 2023 Preservation Grant from NFPF
DER is excited to announce that we are recipients of a 2023 preservation grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to restore two of John Marshall’s films – BITTER MELONS (1971) and N/UM TCHAI (1969).
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Press Release: ITAM HAKIM HOPIIT Added to the National Film Registry
DER is proud to announce the induction of Victor Masayesva, Jr.’s Itam Hakim Hopiit into the National Film Registry. Each year, the Library of Congress (LOC) selects 25 films deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
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Update on Indigenous Studies Film Initiative
We are excited to share an update on the progress of our Indigenous Studies Film Initiative. We’ve just completed the first phases related to re-imagining the presentation of Indigenous content on our website which was inspired by our review of contemporary Indigenous archiving standards.
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