Lumbee Film Festival

The 5th annual Lumbee Film Festival will take place July 6 to July 8, 2023 in Pembroke, NC during Lumbee Homecoming. The Lumbee Film Festival showcases bold, original new films made by Native Americans, Indigenous Filmmakers, and American Indians, especially members of the Lumbee Tribe living in North Carolina and across the United States.

“Each year the Lumbee Film Festival gets better and better. I am so excited about this year’s lineup of short and feature films. Some are traditional and some have us thinking out of the box.  Some are local and some are far away. Just like in real life. Something for everyone. Come join us. You will be glad you did,” – Kim Pevia, Festival Director

The Lumbee Film Festival is a partnership between the Lumbee Tribe of NC and the Cucalorus Film Foundation.

For questions about the Lumbee Film Festival, email dan@cucalorus.org or kim@kimpevia.org.

2023 Official Film Schedule

The Lumbee Film Festival takes place during Lumbee Homecoming from June 30-July 9, which is the largest American Indian cultural celebration in North Carolina and the Southeast. Celebrate the Lumbee Tribe by listening to the Summer Jam Outdoor Concert, supporting  the Teen and Miss Lumbee Pageant, running in the morning Lumbee Homecoming 5K and watching the All Veteran Parachute Team Skyshow before heading indoors for the evening screenings at 7:30 pm. All of the films will be shown in one location: James A. Thomas Hall, 333 Braves Drive Pembroke, North Carolina. FREE ENTRY for all screenings! And don’t forget to eat a collard-green sandwich before the festivities are over!

OPENING NIGHT SHORTS: Thursday, July 6th @ 7:30pm / James A. Thomas Hall

• Arctic Song (6:25)
• Nalujuk Night (13:07)
• Can Archaeology Repair its Past with Indigenous America? (14:39)
• Our Way (5:30)
• Mysterious Lines (2:25)
• Daydreams (5:38)
• Nukum Mary (6:31)
• My Stories: Fallen Leaf (1:39) 
• My Stories: the Black Mirror (1:47)
• Mapping America’s Native Food Trail (18:08)

Faces from the Interior with Mary Two Axe-Earley: Friday, July 7 @ 7:30pm / James A. Thomas Hall 

• Documentary Short: Mary Two Axe-Earley (32:00)
• Documentary Feature by Justin Deegan: Faces From the Interior (40:02)

Tough Skin by Montana Cypress: Saturday, July 8th @ 7:30pm / James A. Thomas Hall

• Documentary Feature Montana Cypress’ Tough Skin (61:19)

OPENING NIGHT SHORTS
Thursday, July 6 @ 7:30 PM / James A. Thomas Hall

Can Archaeology Repair its Past with Indigenous America?

Directed by Victoria Sutton

United States | 14:39

The story tells how statutes and training a new generation of archaeologists have been used to repair and restore damage done over the centuries.

Nukum Mary (My grandmother Mary)

Directed by Normand Junior Tshirnish

Canada | 6:31

A Naskapi grandmother passes on to her Innu granddaughter her experience, knowledge and culture.

My Stories: the Black Mirror

Directed by Vibrina Coronado

United States | 1:47

Poem read over related natural imagery.

Faces from the Interior with Mary Two Axe-Early
Friday, July 7 @ 7:30 PM / James A. Thomas Hall

Faces From The Interior

Directed by Justin Deegan

United States | 40:02

Faces From The Interior, addresses the impact of Karl Bodmer sketched and painted images, which are historical art documents that are iconic in present day America, among the direct descendants of the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation. Which, were a few of the many indigenous nations the Prince Maximilian Expedition made contact with.

Tough Skin by Montana Cypress
Saturday, July 8 @ 7:30 PM / James A. Thomas Hall

Lumbee Film Festival Staff

Kim Pevia, Festival Director

Kim Pevia is an experienced life strategist, an engaging keynote speaker, and a skilled workshop facilitator. Her workshops are experiential and transformational. She specializes in identifying  the issues that keep us stuck and addresses them by developing a personalized toolbox to help us hurdle over them.  Her favorite work is done in circles.  Her favorite topics include Emotional intelligence, Gifts of Conflict, Impacts of Historical Trauma, Cultural Healing, Innocuous Nature of Fear, most of which she includes in Race, Equity and Inclusion work.  Born and educated in Baltimore, MD she currently lives in Robeson County, NC where her roots run deep as a member of the Lumbee Tribe. 

She serves on many local, state and national boards that support community activism and local economy through arts, food, culture and tourism. She recently served as Chair of the Board of Alternate Roots.  In 2015 she founded Artist Market-Pembroke, providing retail opportunities for local and regional artists in southeast North Carolina. Her love of community and films is expressed as the curator of the annual Lumbee Film Festival (along with Cucalorus) and the quarterly CommUnity Cinema (in partnership with Working Films). She expresses her creativity as a writer and workshop/training facilitator.

Chad Locklear, Communications Director

Chad Locklear is from St. Pauls, NC. He is the director of marketing for the Givens Performing Arts Center at UNC Pembroke and was recently selected to join the 2020 South Art’s Emerging Leaders of Color inaugural cohort. He has performed at numerous venues as a member of the traditional native group, the Deer Clan Singers. His previous work was in journalism and graphic design at UNC Wilmington and the Fayetteville Observer. Chad earned a graduate degree in liberal studies from UNC Wilmington and bachelor’s degrees in communication and art studies from N.C. State University. He is currently completing his thesis for an M.A. in digital communications at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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