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In Conversation - End of the Line

Join us for a discussion between filmmaker Shannon Kring and Joely BigEagle-Kequahtooway.

This event will livestream on RPL Film Theatre's Facebook page and YouTube channel.

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Watch the film End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock on Wednesday November 17, 7:00 PM CST at RPL Film Theatre.

Shannon Kring is an Emmy-winning producer/director and humanitarian who amplifies the experiences of those left vulnerable and voiceless through years of systematic oppression. Her work has been presented by dozens of governments, and by institutions including the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Smithsonian Institution Museum of the American Indian, NASA, MIT, and the British Museum. Shannon works with the UN, US Department of State, USAID, UNEP, and other global bodies concerning the indigenous and other marginalized members of society, environmental sustainability, and cultural preservation. She serves as Honduras’ UNWTO Liaison and Official Goodwill Ambassador.

In 2008, Shannon left behind culinary and lifestyle media fame. Gaining unprecedented access into typically fiercely guarded groups in 70+ countries, she has been entrusted with lifting the veil on spiritual practices long shrouded in mystery and intrigue. To date, she has conducted nearly 3,000 interviews on ancient and indigenous wisdom.

After living in places as diverse as Helsinki and San Pedro Sula, Honduras (then the Murder Capital of the World), Shannon returned to the US in 2016 to begin production on her second feature documentary, End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock. In 2018, she became the first US director and only third woman to receive the backing of the Finnish Film Foundation. In 2019, she won the Stella Artois-Women in Film Finishing Fund Award. A 2021 Film Independent Fellow, Shannon is the author of five award-winning nonfiction books.

Joely BigEagle-Kequahtooway is an inter-disciplinary artist whose main source of inspiration is Tatanga aka Buffalo. She is a fashion and textile designer, visual artist, beader, storyteller and co-founder of the Buffalo People Arts Institute. She comes from a long line of Buffalo hunters and is Nakota/Cree/Saulteaux from the White Bear First Nations - signatory to Treaty 4. She has degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Calgary and Mathematics from the First Nations University of Canada. She loves to incorporate mathematics and geometry in her artwork and is inspired by the perfect symmetry in nature. Her mantra envelopes everything Tatanga as it connects her to ancestral memories, the land and is the manifestational glue that keeps her world together.

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