Event Locator: 2024-AAJVSB
BAD RIVER
PRESENTED BY: NICOLET COLLEGE TRIBAL STUDENTS AND ALUMNI CLUB ALONG WITH THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN (AAUW) AND 350 WISCONSIN.
Tuesday, March 4
5 pm | Meal and Fellowship
6 pm | Drum Ceremony and Film Screening
Nicolet College Theatre
Admission: $8 Includes meal, screening, and panel | Free With Nicolet College Student ID
Reserve your seat online at nicoletlive.com
Bar opens at 5 pm – Enjoy non-alcoholic refreshments and concessions before the show.
Join us for a meaningful discussion panel with some of the filmmakers and contributors immediately following the screening.
Experience this engaging and critically acclaimed film highlighting local tribal members and their powerful story. BAD RIVER, narrated by Quannah ChasingHorse and Academy-Award nominee, Edward Norton; written and directed by award-winning filmmaker, Mary Mazzio; and produced by Grant Hill (owner of the Atlanta Hawks) and Allison Abner (writer for Narcos, West Wing and descendant of the Stockbridge Munsee Band), is a new documentary film which chronicles the Wisconsin-based Bad River Band and its ongoing fight for sovereignty, a story which unfolds in a groundbreaking way through a series of shocking revelations, devastating losses, and a powerful legacy of defiance and resilience which includes a David vs. Goliath battle to save Lake Superior, the largest freshwater resource in America. An aging pipeline is threatening the Bad River Band reservation in Northern Wisconsin. This film has been nominated for three Critics Choice Awards and recently won the Environmental Media Award for Best Documentary. Visit film's website for more.
“Model Quannah Chasinghorse is helping director Mary Mazzio‘s newest documentary “Bad River” reach new audiences. Films like ‘Bad River,’ can really help shape how people see Native Americans,” Chasinghorse says. “It’s really exciting to see more and more Native people being seen and uplifted, and having the opportunity to share these stories.”” – Kristin Tauer, Women’s Wear Daily
“Bad River reveals Indigenous People’s Fight to Protect their Land and Lake Superior. Read Matt Carey’s article in Deadline.
“The documentary film “Bad River” about the northern Wisconsin tribe’s fight for sovereignty has been nominated for three Critics Choice Awards…” – Frank Vaisvilas, Milwaukee Sentinel
“Mazzio’s film presents a sweeping history of events and federal policies that forged Bad River’s tenacious commitment to defending its homelands and culture. That fierce defiance, we see, was borne out of relentless, hard-headed love for all that is Bad River. Defense of their homelands has always been intensely personal for Bad River citizens.” –Mary Annette Pember, Indian Country Today