Nyla Innuksuk’s 2022 sci- fi/ horror film Slash/ Back

We celebrate the works of Native American films that break racial stereotypes and promote awareness of contemporary Native American issues and society.

About

First Nations Film and Video Festival, Inc. is a 501c3 tax-exempt registered non-profit organization. We host the largest Native American Film Fest in Chicago as well as being the #1 resource for Native-produced films in the region and the most trusted BY Native American filmmakers for getting their films screened.

We are Chicago's only Native American film festival that deals exclusively with Native American film and video makers and features brand new works not being screened anywhere else in Chicago! We offer educational screenings and presentations for your school or educational event! We host the First Nations Film and Video Festival twice a year: SPRING FNFVF: May 1-10 FALL FNFVF: November 1-10

Our Purpose.

Though depicted in film almost from the creation of the craft, Native Americans have had little control in how others present them: Our purpose is the change that.

We provide a venue for all Native American filmmakers to be able to tell and show their side of the story, their history, and their perspective on today’s societies and issues.

Native Americans need to be in control of how others see them and thereby gain that power back that was taken from them in the eras of colonization and assimilation.For so long the voice of an evolving contemporary society has gone without representation in today’s media-driven landscape. The control of these images has been out of the hands of the Native American film makers themselves.

That is, until now.

Together we can change the Narrative.

We work with Native American directors and works to find a venue for their films and voice.

 Contact us.

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Summer outdoor short film program at the First Nations Garden
Showing at the Robert Crown Community Center with Evanston Public Library.
Program Two of the Fall 2022 FNFVF held at the Field Museum.

Photos of our film programs (locations listed in order): Summer 2023 outdoor program at First Nations Garden, Program at the Robert Crown Community Center with Evanston Public Library, Fall 2022 FNFVF at Field Museum