PMA Associate Professor Jeffrey Palmer will be screening his film N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear, at LitFilm, in the Central Library Dweck Center of the Brooklyn Public Library on Monday, October 14, from 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm.
LitFilm is the Brooklyn Public Library’s popular film festival about writers, celebrating its seventh year highlighting seven nights of some of the most influential and iconoclastic literary minds. Words from a Bear will be the opening night screening, followed by a talk back with Palmer. The film is also representing Indigenous Peoples Day.
N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear examines the enigmatic life and mind of National Medal of Arts-winner Navarro Scott Momaday, the Kiowa novelist, short-story writer, essayist and poet. His Pulitzer Prize-winning novel House Made of Dawn led to the breakthrough of Native American literature into the mainstream. The film premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and aired nationally on the PBS series, American Masters. In 2020, the film was nominated for an Emmy in support of American Masters' 33rd season, for Outstanding Documentary or Non-Fiction Series. The film also won the 2019 Ted Turner Award for the film that most encourages environmental stewardship.
