Andrew Okpeaha MacLean

On what's traditionally known as Columbus Day, a San Francisco affiliate of the American Indian Movement, AIM-West, hosted the second annual American Indian Movement International Film Festival. Organizers of the festival took a cue from the United Nations' observance on this day as they celebrated indigenous filmmakers -- instead of the brutality embodied by Columbus. "What the United Nations was trying to declare was, 'Make your own stories, produce your own movies,' so it was to encourage...Read Full Story

Qalli (Josiah Patkota) in On the Ice. The frozen onesBy Ed RampellWhat if playwright Eugene O’Neill had been an Inuit? His classics such as The Iceman Cometh may have been set in another culture and environment, but their universal themes could still find expression, even in Barrow, Alaska, where most of writer-director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean’s On the Ice takes place. Indeed, the substance abuse that plagues O’Neill’s barflies also ravages Inupiaqs, Natives of Alaska, in MacLean’s feature...Read Full Story

Shot entirely on location in Barrow, Alaska, On the Ice is the engrossing and suspenseful film debut by filmmaker Andrew Okpeaha MacLean about two teenage boys who have grown up like brothers go about their lives in the comfortable claustrophobia of an isolated Alaskan town. This unique feature will release in New York, Los Angeles, Fairbanks, and Anchorage on February 10th, 2012! On the Ice was written and directed by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean…Read Full Story

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