Movie Night November: Native Leads (Patreon)

Watch date: Sunday, November 26th, 8pm ET

1) Prey (2022) 

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Naru, a skilled warrior of the Comanche Nation, fights to protect her tribe against one of the first highly-evolved Predators to land on Earth. (via IMDB)

2) Smoke Signals (1998) 

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Arnold rescued Thomas from a fire when he was a child. Thomas thinks of Arnold as a hero, while Arnold's son Victor resents his father's alcoholism, violence and abandonment of his family. (via IMDB)

3) Blood Quantum (2019) 

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The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague. (via IMDB)

4) Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013) 

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Red Crow Mi'kmaq reservation, 1976: By government decree, every Indian child under the age of 16 must attend residential school. In the kingdom of the Crow, that means imprisonment at St. Dymphna's. That means being at the mercy of "Popper", the sadistic Indian agent who runs the school. (via IMDB)