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Hi folks,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I know there's been a lot of talk about the linguist documentary at Sundance, but I just found out that there's an Iñupiaq short film being featured at Sundance this year, too. It's called Sikumi (On the Ice), by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, and it's shot entirely in the Iñupiaq language (northern Alaska). (The filmmaker is, incidentally, son of Edna Ahgeak MacLean, one of the foremost Native linguists and educators working on Iñupiaq revitalization - way to go, MacLean family!). </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Nice to see a film in an indigenous language featured in such a high-profile setting! If you'd like to check it out for yourself, you can watch it online at Sundance's site: </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://www.sundance.org/festival/shorts/">http://www.sundance.org/festival/shorts/</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I think this is set to work only for one day, so Sikumi will only be up on their website January 26 (North American time zones).</div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Best,</div><div>Linda L.<br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>-------------------------</div><div>Linda Lanz</div><div>Dept. of Linguistics</div><div>Rice University</div><div><a href="mailto:lanz@rice.edu">lanz@rice.edu</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </div><br></div></body></html>