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"Broken Rainbow" won this year's Academy Award as best documentary - because of the nobility of its sentiments, I suspect, more than the quality of its filmmaking. If a documentary cannot convince us of its basic journalistic accuracy, then it is just opinion and polemic, and the material might have been treated more effectively as fiction.
Broken Rainbow reveals that this harrowing incident was another in a long string of efforts by the United States government to break the spirit of Native Americans by seizing their property. Both the Hopis and the Navajos, according to the filmmakers, have a tradition of seeing themselves as caretakers of the Earth. That is why the effort to move them off their land in the 1970s was so ...
The biggest mistake that Broken Rainbow makes is that it doesn’t have a “call your congressman” screen in reference to the Navajo relocation bill that was passed by Congress. The law is P.L. 93-531 and it is still in effect in 2018. Arizona Senator John McCain’s support of the controversial bill was even quietly mentioned by some newspapers when he ran for President in 2008.
BROKEN RAINBOW presents a moving account of the forced relocation of 12,000 Navajo Indians that continues to take place in Northern Arizona. The United States government claims that by moving the Navajo off the land, it is settling a long-standing territorial dispute between the Navajo and Hopi Tribes. To the traditional Navajo and Hopi, there is no dispute. They believe relocation was ...
Broken Rainbow has received an urgent request from the president of the St Michaels Chapter on the Navajo Reservation for assistance to two families whose homes burnt to the ground. Each family lost everything. The chapter has found vacant accommodations for those families and we are collecting donations of used furniture and housewares and other…
27. Juni 2021 · Broken Rainbow is written, produced, and directed by Godwin Harrison, a Nigerian filmmaker who is passionate about making queer-themed films. It was produced by HUG Media Concept, a Nigerian independent film production company. The 30-minute film highlights family rejection, depression, HIV stigmatization, suicide, and homophobia – all crucial issues affecting the LGBTQ community.
Der Verein Broken Rainbow e. V. wurde 2002 gegründet und ist ein als gemeinnützig anerkannter Verein. Mitglieder/Mitmenschen werden können Vereine und Organisationen sowie Einzelpersonen, die sich in den Bereichen Antidiskriminierung und Gewaltprävention engagieren. Unserer Grundsätze Menschen werden wegen ihrer sexuellen Orientierung, ihrer geschlechtlichen Selbstbeschreibung, ihres ...
