February 6, 2003

AWARD-WINNING INDIE FILMS PRESENTED BY STUDENT PROGRAMS BOARD

Two award-winning independent films will be featured in pre-broadcast screenings, presented by Boise State University Student Programs Board. Both films begin at 8 p.m. at the Student Union Special Events Center and are free and open to the public.

Produced by Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco, this film has won several awards, including Best Documentary at the New Jersey International Film Festival in 2002 and the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. In this film, a Vietnamese mother and her Amerasian daughter are reunited after 22 years. Both have dreamed of a joyful reunion, but their hopes are shattered as cultural differences and the years of separation take their toll. "Daughter from Danang" is about a war in the past and making peace with the present.

Produced by Donna Dewey, this film won Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002. In "Chiefs," Beaver C’Bearing and his fellow Chiefs want to bring the high school state basketball championship back to Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation and make their people proud. But while struggling through his senior year, he is forced to re-evaluate the importance of basketball. Following two years in the lives of Beaver and his teammates, Daniel Junge’s "Chiefs" explores what it means to grow up Native American at the turn of the 21st century.

Katie Sullins

Student Programs Board

426-3655

Pat Pyke

communications and marketing

426-1987

Patri Ann Thompson

communications and marketing intern

426-3196

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