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We are very happy to announce that SKYDANCER will have the New York Premiere at the Brooklyn Film Festival!
May 2011: SKYDANCER premiere screening and cook-out on the Akwesasne Reservation
February 2011: SKYDANCER’s ‘Sneak Preview’ Screening in front of a sold out audience at the
Big Sky Documentary Festival, in Montana
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The Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center: for more than 120 years, Mohawk ironworkers have raised America’s modern cityscapes. They are called 'sky walkers' because they walk fearlessly atop steel beams just a foot wide, high above the city. Who are these Mohawk sky walkers? What is their secret for overcoming fear? Has 'sky walking' replaced an ancient rite of passage? Or is it the pure need to adapt in order to survive? And what is their life really like, when every Friday at quitting time, they jump in their cars and make the eight-hour drive up north to their families on the reservation? SKYDANCER is a feature length documentary that takes a provocative look at Indian life in the 21st Century. more
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