<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">Forwarded From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian McDermott</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brianfmcdermott@gmail.com">brianfmcdermott@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:40 AM<br>Subject: [Linganth] Educational Film on Revitalizing Indigenous Languages<br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:0.22in"><font color="#222222"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="times new roman, serif"><i>Heenetiineyoo3eihiiho' </i></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="times new roman, serif">(<wbr>Language Healers) our 41-minute documentary that tells the story of Native Americans who are striving to revitalize their languages, is now on sale for the next two weeks for $99 (for the Educational DVD). To receive an invoice for the Educational DVD sale price, please respond directly to this email. </font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0in;line-height:0.22in"><font color="#222222"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="times new roman, serif">In the film, we learn about the importance of Native languages and cultures in Alaska from a Yup’ik dog musher and a Tlingit carver of wood and metal. The film then takes us to a school in Wisconsin where we hear the story of a seventh grade girl who was recently punished for speaking a few words of the Menominee language. We learn more about the fight against language loss through visiting a Euchee (Yuchi) immersion school in Oklahoma where only four fluent elder speakers remain. We also meet National Geographic Fellow and Swarthmore College linguistics professor K. David Harrison who introduces us to his innovative online talking dictionaries project for Indigenous languages. Finally, we travel to Montana where an inventive Arapaho professor, Neyooxet Greymorning, has been perfecting a method to quickly save Native languages.</font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><font face="times new roman, serif"><font size="3">Go to:</font></font></font></p><p style="font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.empathyworksfilms.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff"><font face="times new roman, serif"><font size="3"><u>http://www.empathyworksfilms.c<wbr>om/</u></font></font></font></a></p><p style="font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><font face="times new roman, serif"><font size="3">and scroll to the bottom of the page to see a trailer and for more details.</font></font></font></p><p style="font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><font face="times new roman, serif"><font size="3">Available formats include a closed-captioned DVD with Free, Perpetual Video Hosting/Streaming, closed-captioned DVD-only, or a downloadable MP4 Master File for use on university servers or streaming providers like Kanopy. Visit the link above for more details.</font></font></font></p><p style="font-size:13px;line-height:0.18in"><font color="#000000"><font face="times new roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>Language Healers </i></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="times new roman, serif"><font size="3">was selected to screen at: the 10th Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival as well as many other festivals, events and symposiums including: </font></font></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:medium;line-height:17.28px">the 2016 Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival; </span><span style="line-height:17.28px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:medium">the 2016 Red Nation Film Festival; the 2016 Maoriland Film Festival; 2014 World Indigenous Film Festival; t</span><font style="line-height:0.18in" color="#000000"><font face="times new roman, serif"><font size="3">he 11th Native American Symposium at Southeastern Oklahoma State University; the 2015 Stabilizing Indigenous Language Symposium in Riverton, Wyoming; the 130th MLA Convention held in Vancouver in January 2015; the Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium at </font></font></font><span style="line-height:17.28px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:medium">the University of Hawaii, Hilo</span><font style="line-height:0.18in" color="#000000"><font face="times new roman, serif"><font size="3">; and played at the University of Wisconsin—Madison for International Mother Language Day. The movie was also mentioned in the </font></font></font><font style="line-height:0.18in" color="#1155cc"><font face="times new roman, serif"><font size="3"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alissa-stern/technology-to-the-endange_b_6225900.html" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a> </font></font></font><font style="line-height:0.18in" color="#000000"><font face="times new roman, serif"><font size="3">as one of the films helping to empower individuals to take action to rescue endangered languages and was voted by Intercontinental Cry Magazine as one of the “ten films you need to watch on International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.”</font></font></font></p><p style="font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><font face="times new roman, serif"><font size="3">Since becoming available, over 100 university libraries have ordered <i>Language Healers.</i></font></font></font></p><p style="font-size:13px;line-height:0.18in"><font color="#000000"><font face="times new roman, serif"><font size="3">Please let me know if you have any questions.</font></font></font></p><p style="font-size:13px;line-height:0.18in"><font color="#222222"><font face="times new roman, serif"><font size="3"><br><font color="#000000">Thank you,</font></font></font></font></p><div><div style="font-size:13px"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:'times new roman',serif"><font size="4" color="#000000"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Brian McDermott, MFA, MSW</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">EmpathyWorks Films</span></font><span style="color:black;font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span><a href="tel:%28610%29%20574-8147" value="+16105748147" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)" target="_blank">(610) 574-8147</a><span style="color:black;font-family:georgia,serif"> cell</span><span style="color:black;font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:9.5pt"><br><u><a href="mailto:brianfmcdermott@gmail.com" target="_blank">brianfmcdermott@gmail.com</a></u></span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:9.5pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div style="font-size:13px"><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:'times new roman',serif"><u><span style="color:black;font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:9.5pt"><a href="http://www.empathyworksfilms.com/" target="_blank">http://www.empathyworksfilms.c<wbr>om/</a></span></u></p><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:'times new roman',serif"><u style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.empathyworksfilms.net/" target="_blank">http://www.empathyworksfilms.n<wbr>et/</a></u></p></div></div></div>
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