TWO SPIRITS Trailer

TWO SPIRITS, the documentary directed by Lydia Nibley and produced by Say Yes Quickly Productions, will have its world premiere on Saturday, November 21 at the Starz Denver Film Festival.

The film will screen at 12:30 p.m. in the 520-seat King Center Concert Hall on the University of Colorado at Denvers downtown Auraria campus, and will be followed by a panel discussion and reception.

Two Spirits and the Fred Martinez Project have received the Monette-Horwitz Distinguished Achievement Award for outstanding activism, research, and scholarship to combat homophobia. And the U.S. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in Washington has joined more than fifty national organizations as an outreach partner.

The documentary film interweaves the tragic story of a mothers loss of her son with a revealing look at the largely unknown history of a time when the world wasnt simply divided into male and female and many Native American cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders.

Fred Martinez was nádleehí, a male-bodied person with a feminine essence, a special gift according to his ancient Navajo culture. He was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at sixteen by a young man who bragged to friends that he had bug-smashed a fag. TWO SPIRITS explores the life and death of a boy who was also a girl and the essentially spiritual nature of gender and sexuality. The film makes the case that in the twenty-first century we need to return to traditional values.

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Film & Animation

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• two-spirit
• fred martinez
• navajo
• native
• Native American
• American Indian
• documentary
• documentary film
• outfest
• lgbt
• gay
• transgender
• hate crime
• anti-violence
• two-spirited
• Starz Denver
• Denver Film Festival
• gender
• gender non-conforming
• Lydia Nibley
• Say Yes Quickly

[vaniaaguirres1]

Please anyone know the name of this movie? I would like to watch it,thanks

[TwoSpiritsOrg]

@vaniaaguirres1 The name is TWO SPIRITS

[rays2crazy]

i need to see this film !!!!

[TwoSpiritsOrg]

The film is currently in the final stages of post-production, and it will be completed and released just as soon as our final fund-raising efforts are successful. We hope to have its official premiere at a major film festival in the fall. The DVD will be released sometime in the late fall of 2009, and we will notify you immediately when it becomes available.

The Facebook group will always have posted the most current information about the film, as well as notices of regional screenings.

[EthanCole15]

Anybody know the song??

[TheXFantasyXfreak]

My uncle just got out of jail for covering up the evidence..but he finally said something..if it wasn't for him the body wouldn't of been found..i can't tell you had bad he feels about everything still..he cries..

[adrianthewizard]

What is the name of the song at the end?

[pillowhole]

@the1tigglet Actually,I was told that navajo tradition is fading. Gangs,thugs,Meth,domestic violence,single parents... is extremely high on the reservation. Also they've said, when the U.S. economy collapse ,they're going to take back there stolen belongings,and ship the white man back to Europe.

[pillowhole]

@the1tigglet I live close to the navajo reservation,and I've been to there schools, tc. Native christain's are rare, in the first place. They're more traditional and atheist. Yes,the white man has been teaching atheistism,and a lot of my native friends don't believe nor follow there traditions. So again the white man has caused more damages. I call it ,"two-spirits, screwed by two white man."

[windstorm1000]

@the1tigglet you said it.

[the1tigglet]

@windstorm1000 what's sad is that some of their own people have been brainwashed by the fearmongering and guilt ridden process of christianization to the point of ostracizing their own people. The native people's need to listen more to their ancestors and how they were then they do to the modern churches.