Location: CSWS Lyceum (Room 120)
Free and open to all!
Join us for an evening of storytelling and film with Charine Pilar Gonzales, Fort Lewis College alum and featured artist in the Center of Southwest Studies’ current exhibition, Constellations of Place. Charine will share her creative journey and approach to community-based filmmaking that intertwines memories, dreams, and truths through vivid story. During her presentation, Charine will screen two of her acclaimed short films: River Bank (Pō-Kehgeh), which is the first narrative fiction film approved by San Ildefonso Pueblo to be filmed on Tribal lands since the 1980s, and is told using an Indigenous story structure, inspired by traditional Tewa stories. Her second film, This Land Carries Us, is a reflection of Tewa people and land that was produced for the recent exhibition ‘Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country’ at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
Charine Pilar Gonzales is a Tewa filmmaker from San Ildefonso Pueblo and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her Tewa name is “Ku’yan Povi,” which means Turquoise Flower. She is a 2024 Sundance Institute Native Lab Fellow for her episodic project, NDN Time. Her esteemed short doc Our Quiyo: Maria Martinez (2022) premiered at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and was acquired by AT&T, Comcast Xfinity, Millicent Rogers Museum, and The Heard Museum. Charine’s debut narrative fiction short film, River Bank (Pō-Kehgeh), received the Achievement in Short Filmmaking Award at the 2023 LA SKINS FEST. She is a Producer for the Native Lens project, a crowdsourced collaboration by KSUT Tribal Radio and Rocky Mountain PBS. She owns the multimedia production company Povi Studios, and is represented by Rain Management Group.
Charine is a proud alum of Fort Lewis College, earning a BA in English-Communication, and currently attends the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA Creative Writing program with a focus in Screenwriting.
Charine’s short film Mesa Memory that is featured in Constellations of Place is made possible with generous support from the Belonging Colorado initiative of The Denver Foundation and the Greater Good Science Center and is in partnership with the America 250-Colorado 150 Southwest regional “Power of Place” activities.
This is a featured event for the Four Corners Water Center’s annual Water Week series of lectures and presentations. Learn more.