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Two Spirits
2009, 65 minutes
Media type
Country of origin

United States of America

Rating

US:R

Production company

Say Yes Quickly Productions

Just MediaRiding

The Tiger Productions

Filming locations

Cortez, Colorado, United States of America

Technical specs

Colour

Languages

Navajo/Diné

English/English

Content Warnings
Unreviewed
Images
The image depicts a person wearing a plaid shirt who is throwing their head and hands up dramatically in front of a colorful sunset sky. The setting sun is visible in the lower right corner of the image, casting the bottom of the frame in a hazy orange glow. A thin sliver of crescent moon is visible in the upper left corner of the image, surrounded by a navy blue night sky. In between the two, in the middle of the poster, is a line of clouds. At the bottom of the poster, behind the person who is throwing their hands up, are several more hands, which are slightly transparent and grasping up at the sky. Just below the moon is the film's title, "Two Spirits," with the word "Two" in orange and the word "Spirits" in light blue. Beneath the title is the following text introducing the topic of the film: "Fred Martinez was a Navajo boy who was also a girl. In an earlier era, he would have been revered. Instead, he was murdered."
Description

Filmmaker Lydia Nibley explores the cultural context behind a tragic and senseless murder. Fred Martinez was a Navajo youth slain at the age of 16 by a man who bragged to his friends that he 'bug-smashed a fag'. But Fred was part of an honored Navajo tradition - the 'nadleeh', or 'two-spirit', who possesses a balance of masculine and feminine traits. Through telling Fred's story, Nibley reminds us of the values that America's indigenous peoples have long embraced.

IMDb. “Two Spirits,” n.d. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1296906/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_pl.

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