MIWENE x DIYFF program 2024

Amazon Rain forest STATS

1. THE AMAZON RAINFOREST COVERS AN ENORMOUS 6.7 MILLION SQUARE KILOMETRES

2. THE AMAZON IS THOUGHT TO BE HOME TO 10% OF KNOWN SPECIES ON EARTH

3. THE AMAZON IS HOME TO 47 MILLION PEOPLE, INCLUDING MORE THAN 2 MILLION INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.

SCAVENGER HUNT

Grab a tea with SINESIS

massage from Panacea Holistic Institute

Take a red carpet photo

laugh

Learn about local resources for indigenous community

cry

Hug a pal

get sober curious?

Get a glass of wine (!)

say hi to a stranger 🥸

Place a bid on a service you’ve never tried

Tour the new exhibitions on your departure

Use #MIWENE

to share your DIYFF experience @diy.filmfest

Schedule of Events

1:30.......................Museum Doors Open

..........Sisters of the One Drum

2:05..................Welcome with Sea

.......Flute Blessing w Guillermo

.........Welcoming Song w Tahesha

2:15.....................MIWENE Screenings

...................QNA w Obe Nemquimo

...................QNA w Keith Heyward

4:15.....................Final Biddings

4:20 ..............Claim your winnings!

4:30 ......................Conscious Closing

4:30-6....Optional After Party @ BAMBOO CLUB

RECLAIMING THE RAINFOREST

Special Guests

Sisters of the One Drum

We are a intertribal women’s circle that gather around the Ceremonial Drum for the Soul purpose of healing.

We bridge the gap between cultures through the medicine of the Universal pulse that is the drum.

Founder is Sewa Valencia a

Apache and Yoeme Yaqui

Born and raised in Los Angeles

Drum teacher

Elder in the Making

Song Prayer Carrier

Guillermo Martinez

For over 35 years Guillermo has been making custom Native American and Mesoamerican instruments at his magical abode on ancient Tongva land in the Santa Ana Mountains.

Guillermo’s instruments are handmade with love to promote healing and awareness. Quetzalcoatl Music was created by his passion for honoring his indigenous culture and traditions and sharing that knowledge with reverence to any who are called to this path.

for the

love of emotions

#filmfestlbc

Special Guests

Tahesha

Tahesha Knapp-Christensen, Omaha Nation, Water Protector, was born into the American Indian Movement, in Berkeley, CA. By age six she had been to Yellow Thunder Camp, Big Mountain, and Hiroshima. Her father, Will Knapp, carried the Sacred Pipe over the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the first Longest Walk in 1978. Tahesha grew up in Long Beach, CA, earning a BA in Cultural Anthropology from CSULB and attending UCLA where she was President of the American Indian Graduate Student Council. She later worked at the Southwest Museum, the Tribal Law and Policy Institute, and the Autry National Center, where she assisted in the repatriation of the museum’s cultural materials to Native American Tribes.

In 2015, she organized a virtual protest that ended the racist tradition of the Long Beach Turkey Trot Thanksgiving run where participants dressed up in stereotypical Native American costumes, “My culture is not a costume. We are a living culture. This protest is not just about the event itself, it is about our social and civic institutions making progressive policy changes that are in support of the inclusion of all races, religions and genders.” In 2016 she was at Standing Rock, “We are real human beings here, the way we were intended to be before technology and the politics of hate divided us from each other and the earth and destroyed our sacred fires.”

During the pandemic she created an online site, One Hundred Acts of Kindness, which collected and distributed food and other necessities locally and also to chapter houses on the Navajo Reservation. She is committed to preserving the Sacred Site of Puvunga and is a co-founder of Puvunga Wetlands Protectors, which focuses on ending fossil fuel production in the Los Cerritos Wetlands, “We carry our ancestor’s greatest hopes for the preservation of land, culture, and the future of all Indigenous generations.”

friendsofpuvunga.org

@protectpuvungna on Instagram

puvu.org

#MIWENE

Special Thanks

MOLAA

Keith Heyward

ciana Lee

ANNETTE AisPURO

Erin Grissom

Chrissy Cox

Prehensile Productions

Dave Van Patten

Braja Holiday

Jason Miller

mckenna Swan

Kayla Grassbaugh

NICO PADILLA

for the

love of emotions

Thank you for joining us on this auspicious day

MAKING OF THE FEST

The D.I.Y. Film Fest was born out of the desire to quilt together unique creatives and their voices.

The collective culture benefits from platforms for expression and relation. D.I.Y.F.F. will serve as an inclusive environment to gather together for entertainment, community, and creative expression. Proceeds from the D.I.Y. Film Fest events are paid forward to rotating causes, like MIWENE for the KEWEDIONO Community.

ABOUT JANE FREE PRODUCTIONS

Jane Free Productions is an advocate for emotional freedom; especially for those surviving trauma and grief. Providing tools for self-realization and transformation are the forefront of all Jane Free campaigns in music, film, education, community. Jane Free Productions is a branch of Panacea Holistic Institute.

Use #MIWENE @diy.filmfest

to share your DIYFF experience

Amazon PROTECTORS

TO FOLLOW on IG

@alianzaceibo

@amazonfrontlines

@mullu.tv

@ifnotusthenwho

@moiguiquita

@eli.virkina

@nemonte.nenquimo

@davidhpalmar

@helenagualinga

@txaisurui

FIlm crew and Team

KEWEDIONO Community

UEBI Nongi Togodo SChool

THE NATURE OF THIS FUNDRAISER:

Proceeds from MIWENE @ MOLAA will be going directly to the community featured in the film. This is the journey your funding will take:

1) From an Earthling

(thats you)

2) Via

3) DIRECTLY TO

KEWEDIONO SCHOOL

The coveted FLUTE RAFFLE

440 HZ Native Flute by Nash

in the key of ‘A’ in Mahogany

$5 = 1 ticket

$20 = 5 tickets

$50 = 15 tickets

$75 = 25 tickets

$100 = 35 tickets

WAYZ TO SEND Funds

please complete all donations for silent auction before leaving the museaum to secure your winnings!

Venmo

@jocelynfeemiller

ZElle

jocelynfee@gmail.com

Paypal

Sacredrootshh@gmail.com

Debit or Credit Card

check out at the auction table.

Check

payable to Panacea Holistic Institute

reclaiming the amazon

#miwene

Fresh PRessed Juice

Provided by

Curious about Sober

Curiousity?

@rainbowjuices

reclaiming the amazon

#miwene

RESOURCES

FOR PUVUUNGNA

@FRIENDSOFPUVUNGNA

@PROTECTPUVUNGNA

Many Winters Gathering of Elders

The D.I.Y. Film Fest is devoted to sharing film expression built to liberate hearts + minds.

Raising awareness + Funds for emotional liberation through independent film & music.

Benefiting

WAORANI Primary School

Resources will be brought to Kewediono with Keith.

www.miwene.com

for the

love of emotions

#miwene

Thank You Community!

reclaiming the rainforest

#MIWENE

Resources:

California Family Institute

nuMbers fOr Support

SuicidAL Ideation

888

Self-Harm

1-800-366-8288

Trans Lifeline

1-888-843-4564

bullYing

1-800-420-1479

LGbtq+

1-888-843-4564

Eating disorders

1-800-931-2237

domestic violence

1-800-799-7233

grief & Loss

1-800-445-4808

sexual assault

1-800-656-4673

mental health

1-800-950-6264

24/7 texting support

741741

huge Thank you to our Garage Theatre contributors

www.thegaragetheatre.org

DIYFF team

Jocelyn Jane Free

Is a mother to two daughters and married to Jason Miller. Jocelyn founded Sacred Roots Holistic Healing center in 2012. She is the director of Panacea Holistic Institute - Long Beach’s massage therapy career college. In 2021 with alumni and friends she founded the DIY Film Fest as a community service outlet and storytelling platform. In 2023 Jane Free TV was launched on YouTube. Jocelyn has been friends with Keith Heyward since 2002, it is an honor to celebrate MIWENE.

Ciana Lee

Gaurdian of Ceremonies: Ciana Anita Kalokomaikai’imaikalanimai thrives out of Puvuunga//Long Beach.

Ciana is a Xicanx<>Kanaka Maoli<>Two Spirit/Mahu<> educator, interdisciplinary artist, community organizer and performer. They shine through public speaking, writing, painting/drawing, tatu ceremony,fiber arts, mixed media installation, fire dance and facilitating intergenerational community arts projects.

They are illuminated by expression that arises through storytelling, remembering/reclaiming, re-indigenizing, curanderisme practica, reconciliation, connection with Tonantzin/Haumea/Gaia, plant medicina, teaching:learning as catalyst, the 7 generations to come,and amplification of the global majority.

Erin Grissom

Erin’s love for the art of storytelling began early in life. More recently she has participated in a number of experimental theater productions at Long Beach’s very own Garage Theater, as well as produced a DIY backyard dinner theater. Erin is a contributor at Jane Free productions and believes storytelling in all forms is an important component to embodied healing and community connection.

Relaxation Station

Hosted

by Panacea Holistic Institute