documentary
We are going to Bulgaria! Stories I Didn’t Know will screen at Sofia DocuMental Film Festival on September 8, 4pm at the Czech Center in Sofia. Our film is part of a small retrospective of our co-director and producer Melody Gilbert who is teaching a workshop at the festival and showing her latest films.
She will be there in person to answer questions and meet the Bulgarian audience!
We are thrilled to announce that now you can bring our documentary to your community! You can host a screening of Stories I Didn’t Know at your campus, theater, organization, or community venue. Also, you can book the co-directors Rita Davern and Melody Gilbert at your event.
We can wait to connect with you and your communties!
We are happy to announce that Stories I Didn’t Know will screen at the 2021 Alexander Valley Film Festival between April 23 and May 2. The festival will take place online and if you wish to learn more about it, buy a ticket or a pass for the festival click HERE.
Note: Ticket and pass holders will have access to the panel discussion: “Amplifying Indigenous Stories” on Monday, April 26th at 6PM featuring the filmmakers and subjects of all three films.
We can finally share with you a secret we’ve been keeping for awhile! STORIES I DIDN’T KNOW will air on TWIN CITIES PBS - TPT on
Monday, March 22 at 9 pm on TPT 2
Sunday, March 28 at 4 pm on TPT 2
On March 28 right after the film (5pm CST) co-directors Rita Davern and Melody Gilbert, together with Dakota educator Ramona Kitto Stately will discuss the film and the ways one can create empathy and understanding through story sharing.
To RSVP for the discussion event on March 28, click the button bellow:
More news about other broadcasts around PBS stations around the country very soon. Stay tuned!
After screening at BIFF Year ‘Round film series in November 2020, we have been invited to be part of the Beloit International Film Festival (February 19 - February 28, 2021) official program that kicks off on Friday, February 19.
We are very happy to be an official documentary program selection at BIFF and we can’t wait to share the film with everyone!
Film tickets go on sale Friday, February 19
Stories I Didn't Know is screening on the West Coast at San Francisco IndieFest between February 4 and February 21, 2021! Don’t forget to check out the Q&A and the short film “Hope's Home” by Yue Li screening alongside our film.
Tickets available here: https://bit.ly/SF-Indie-Fest-Tickets
For those who have seen our documentary film, Stories I Didn’t Know, you may wonder, “Who is Ramona Kitto Stately, and what is she up to these days as an educator and leader?”
Below find Ramona’s profile, along with part 1 of a recent interview with Ramona and Rita about Stories I Didn’t Know. The interview comes from Inclusivi-Tee – a company committed to “co-creating a sustainable, kind, and equitable future through the sale of earth-friendly books and fashion, the organization of workshops and podcasts, and participation in strategic partnerships.”
Ramona Kitto Stately is an enrolled member of the Santee Sioux Dakota Nation. She has a BA in Dakota Art and Culture, and a Masters of Education with an emphasis on Teacher leadership from Augsburg University. After 15 years teaching Indian Education in Minnesota, she is now Project Director for the We Are Still Here Minnesota, creating action for narrative change. Ramona is the mother of two children, an accomplished beadwork artist with moccasins on display in the Science Museum of Minnesota, a part of the scholars' team with of the Minnesota Humanities Center’s for Learning from Place: Bdote and has served as the Chairperson of the Minnesota Indian Education Association since 2016.
Ramona Kitto Stately - Santee Sioux Nation
Project Director - We Are Still Here Minnesota (WASH-MN)
MA Education & Teacher Leadership
ramonastately@gmail.com / (651) 263-0942
"Fostering cultural, social, and policy change by empowering Native Americans to counter discrimination, invisibility, and the dominant narratives that limit Native opportunity, access to justice, health and self-determination."
Ramona Kitto Stately (Still from Stories I Didn’t Know)
Such a pity that we couldn’t attend Cucalorus Film Festival in person this year but nonetheless we had a wonderful time being part of it virtually! Thank you Cucalorus!
We were very happy to have Stories I Didn’t Know screen this month at Lake County Film Festival. Watch below the lovely Q&A we had at the festival together with the director of the fest Nat Dykeman and Greg Allen, director of “Reparations” short film that accompanied the screening of Stories I Didn’t Know at Lake County Film Festival.
Climate Change Leaders (CCL) are an amazing group of farmers pivoting their land use to be sustainable and to help battle climate change. Members of this group saw Stories I Didn’t Know yesterday and had a private Q&A with director Rita Davern and Ramona Kitto Stately, a Dakota educator that features in our film. We want to thank this thoughtful committed group of land leaders for having a discussion with us about what reparations to Native nations might look like and discussing hard topics with one's family.
Read more about CCL's work here: https://bit.ly/3ii1cuA
Cualorus Film Festival shares early films for 26th annual festival and Stories I Didn’t Know is one of the documentaries announced!
Events for the 26th annual festival will take place online and at the Curbside Cinema drive-in
November 11 - 25 (Wilmington, NC). More details about our screening at Cucalorus coming soon!
Our outdoor screening at Moldox International Documentary Film Festival in Eastern Europe went well and even though we couldn’t be present in person at the event, we were grateful to be there via Zoom and chat with the local audience. Take a look at some of the photos from the screening below:
Stories I Didn’t Know was selected to screen at Moldox International Documentary Film Festival for Social Change on September 10 in the small country of Moldova in Eastern Europe. We are excited to bring the film to this corner of the world !
We are thrilled to be one of the 10 films showing at the BEST OF FEST - MSPIFF 39 Redefined.
If you missed our documentary during the festival’s virtual edition, you have the chance to watch it again starting Thursday, June 25. You will have 24 hours to finish watching the movie once you start viewing and must start watching the film by Sunday, June 28 at 11:59 pm in order to finish before the end of the screening engagement. Virtual seats are limited, so reserve a ticket down below:
Screenshot from the MSP Film Society website
We are looking forward to share our film with you and have a conversation afterwards about it.
You are now able to purchase tickets to our screening at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival that will will be available from Sunday, May 17 2PM until Saturday, May 23 11:59PM.
Purchase tickets here:
* Only people with a MN billing address are able to purchase tickets and watch the film at this time
Also, you can now register for the free LIVE Q&A with directors Rita Davern and Melody Gilbert and the film’s subjects that will take place on Sunday, May 17 5PM via Zoom.
