Young Lakota

Dokumentarfilm
USA 2013
Regie: Marion Lipschutz und Rose Rosenblatt
Länge: 1:23 min
Sprache: Englisch

Sunny Clifford, her twin sister, Serena, and Brandon Ferguson are neighbors in Kyle, South Dakota, a small town in the heart of the Pine Ridge Reservation. Their political awakening begins when Cecelia Fire Thunder, the first female President of their tribe, defies a South Dakota law criminalizing abortion by threatening to build a women’s clinic on the sovereign territory of the reservation. In the subsequent political storm, Sunny, Serena and Brandon are faced with difficult choices. Young Lakota is a uniquely sensitive portrait of bright young people at a galvanizing stage of their lives whose cultural pride is informed by a continually uneasy relationship with mainstream American political culture.
The latest in a series of films from Incite Pictures that use the dramatic stories of individual women to explore the fraught terrain of reproductive justice, Young Lakota chronicles the life defining choices faced by three young people as they try to forge a better future for their tribe while securing their own well being.
Young Lakota premiered on PBS’s Independent Lens on November 25th 2013, during Native American Heritage Month, as part of the Women and Girls Lead Initiative. Over a million viewers tuned in.