News & Reviews
Posted 03.24.10
West Coast premier: American Indian Film Festival, November 10 at 7 pm, Embarcadero Center Cinema, One Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA More >>
Posted 03.24.10
Special Screening: August 6, 2009 at 7 pm, Valley Cinema Theater, Little Falls, NY. Funded by the New York Council for the Humanities. More >>
Posted 03.23.10
On February 4, 2010 at 7:00 pm, Lost Sparrow will screen in Minneapolis, MN as part of the Augsburg College Native American Film Series. More >>
Posted 03.23.10
January, 2009: Lost Sparrow premiers at the 2009 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. More >>
Posted 03.23.10
There was a third documentary, about birdsongs, showing Tuesday night at the American Indian Film Festival, but the truth is that “Lost Sparrow,” which preceded it, was so wrenching, so powerful that we couldn’t help rushing out instead to talk over what we had just seen. As the lights came up for a Q&A with… More >>
Posted 03.23.10
Like so many personal documentaries, Lost Sparrow begins with a family’s home video. However, the faces in the family portrait revealed therein are blurred and unidentified. Lost. Given that half the faces in the lost image belong to Native American children, my mind bends to spirits, to the oft-mythed legend of the ability of photographs… More >>