Tentsítewahkwe
Screenings
Embodying the Mohawk value of Tentsítewahkwe, Jessica Shenandoah goes on a knowledge-gathering journey across all four seasons to reinvigorate the healing, land-based practices of her ancestral grandmothers — knowledge that boarding schools, forced religion and land theft may have suppressed but could not destroy.
Directors Spotlight
Katsitsionni Fox
Director
Katsitsionnni Fox is a Mohawk filmmaker sharing empowering stories of resilient Indigenous women. Her debut film was the award winning Ohero:kon – Under the Husk a 26-min documentary following the journey of two Mohawk girls as they take part in their traditional passage rites to becoming Mohawk Women. Katsitsionni received the Jane Glassco Award for Emerging Filmmaker at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival in 2016 as well as the Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking Award at LA Skins Fest in 2016.
- Runtime 17 minutes
- Country United States
- Language English, Kanienkéha (Mohawk)
- Director Katsitsionni Fox
- Cast Jessica Shenandoah
- Cinematographer Jaiden Mitchell, Katsitsionni Fox
- Co Producer Hindou Ibrahim, Yo-Yo Ma, Cristina Mittermeier, Kilii Yuyan
- Editor Sauli Pillay
- Executive Producer Tracy Rector
- Producer Adam Mazo, Tracy Rector, Kavita Pillay, Taylor Hensel
- Premiere Philadelphia
