Desert Messenger

September 16, 2015 www.DesertMessenger.com 15 MOUNTAIN QUAIL C AFE Open 7am - 7pm 7 DAYS/ WEEK 928-927-8890 & Gift Shop 490 N. Moon Mt. Ave., Quartzsite (corner of Moon Mt. & Quail Trail) B-10, Main St. Moon Mountain X Quail Trail N Hwy. 95, N. Central • DAILY SPECIALS • Friday FISH Special • Sat. PRIME RIB • Sunday POT ROAST Enjoy our Famous Bread Pudding ! Home Style Cooking! HAPPY HOUR EVERY DAY! 10 -noon & 3:30-5:30pm 175 E. Main St. 928-927-5585 www.sillyalspizza.com SILLY AL'S PIZZA Famous Gourmet Pizza KARAOKE DJ • Tues- Thur 7pm Kevin James Serving Quartsite at Same Location for over 20 years! LIVE MUSIC • Fri-Sat. 7pm - Ern Cunningham EAT IN OR TAKE OUT! Reservations Accepted! Large Groups OK! Desert Messenger offers FREE Classifi ed Ads! Here's the small print: Items for sale under $1000. Private Party Only. 1 per month. Yard/Garage/Craft Sales, Wanted, Give-a-ways, Free, Lost & Found, etc. (non-commercial) For more information, contact Rain at 928-916-4235 or Email: Editor@DesertMessenger.com NatiVisions Film Festival & Frybread contest Sept. 24-26 NOW OPEN 6am - 8pm Daily American & Mexican Menu BREAKFAST - LUNCH - DINNER 904 W. MAIN STREET QUARTZSITE, AZ 928-927-5718 • Corned Beef Hash • Open Faced Reuben • Banana Bread French Toast NEW ITEMS! Check out our delicious HOME MADE PIES We cook all our meats in-house! We Welcome Large Groups! Reservations Accepted NatiVisions Film Festival and Frybread Contest will run from Sept. 24 to 26. The festival will be at BlueWater Cinemas and there is no admission charge. The fi lm schedule for Thursday, Sept. 24 starts at 2 p.m. "Rhymes for Young Ghouls" is story takes place on the Red Crow Mi'g Maq reservation in 1976 (Canada) and every child 16 years and under must enter residential school. The Indians view it as im- prisonment at St. Dymphna's. At 6:30 p.m., "Akamya" will be shown. There was no available information on the fi lm. At 6:45 p.m. "Three Sisters will be shown. There was no available information on the fi lm. At 7 p.m. "Empire of Dirt" will be featured. It is a story of three generations of First Nations women struggling with their pasts. On Friday, Sept. 25, the fi rst fi lm at 4 p.m., is "Dancing on the Moon." A road dramedy about three Native American friends going to a powwow. The fi lm was written and directed by Roderick Po- cowatchit. At 5:30 p.m., "Adamya" will be shown. At 6 p.m., "Violet" will be featured. This is the latest pro- duction of Choctaw fi lmmaker Mark Williams. Accord- ing to his press release online, "In the fi lm an escaped mental patient dies under mysterious circumstances. The real story emerges 30 years later as a newly wed couple are starting their life together. During the move into their new home, they stumble upon a mysterious package that was never meant to resurface." At 7 p.m., featured fi lm will be "CRIT 1865 to 2015: The Marking of a Milestone." On Saturday, Sept. 26, the morning kicks off with the fi fth annual Frybread Contest will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. First place winner gets $500; sec- ond place, $300; and third place receives $200. Ap- plications can be picked up at Bluewater Cinemas, CRIT Tribal Complex or Parker Area Chamber of Commerce. Entries must be received by Sept. 18. At 2 p.m., "The Dead Can't Dance" will be featured. This fi lm is described as a comedy, horror and sci-fi . Three Native Americans discover they are immune to a virus that's turning everyone into a zombie. The fi lm was written and directed by Roderick Pocowatchit. At 6:30 p.m., a fun movie will be featured, "The Adventures of Josie & the Frybread Kid. Episode 3." Imaginative Josie is a young Native American boy who believes he gets super powers from his grand- ma's frybread. At 7 p.m. there will be two features : "Jew in Choc- taw County" and "The Burden of Being." "Jew in Choctaw County" was written and directed by Ian Skorodin (Choctaw). The story takes place in 1969. Moshe, a Jewish doctor from Chicago, is as- signed to work in an Indian hospital on the Choctaw Reservation in Oklahoma. Not liking the situation, Moshe tries to get fi red, only to fall in love. He falls for the tribal police chief's daughter. Skorodin presented one of his fi lms at the 2013 fi lm festival. He spoke to CRIT youth about fi lmmaking. The second feature is "The Burden of Being." Indi- vidualism has been outlawed in 2061—only one reli- gion and one race are recognized. In a corrupt prison system a Native American man is serving a life sen- tence for speaking his tribal language. He gets a new cellmate and things change. And at 7:30 p.m., "Songs My Brother Taught Me" will be featured. This fi lm takes a look at life on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. On the fi lm's offi cial site it is described as "A complex portrait of modern day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that explores a brother and his younger sister who fi nd themselves on separate paths to rediscovery the meaning of home." BlueWater Cinemas is located at 11378 Resort Drive, Parker, next door to the BlueWater Resort & Casino.

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