Question
Answer the following about visual sovereignty, the process by which Indigenous filmmakers reclaim their identity in media, for 10 points each.
[10e] Lily Gladstone translated scenes into Osage (“OH-sayj”) and helped to restructure this 2023 Martin Scorsese epic to avoid telling a “white-savior” narrative.
ANSWER: Killers of the Flower Moon
[10m] Jennifer McMahon noted how Brady Jandreau subverted stereotypes in his portrayal of a traumatized rodeo star in this director’s film The Rider. This Chinese-American director’s other Western-like films include Nomadland.
ANSWER: Chloé Zhao [or Zhào Tíng]
[10h] Michelle Raheja (“ruh-HAY-juh”) examined visual sovereignty in an essay titled for Nanook of the North and this 2001 Canadian film by Zacharias Kunuk that adapted an Inuit legend of a man who flees naked over the ice from a rival chieftain.
ANSWER: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner [accept “Reading Nanook’s Smile: Visual Sovereignty, Indigenous Revisions of Ethnography, and Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)”]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 10 | 17.00 | 90% | 70% | 10% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 60% | 60% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 88% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| Berkeley A | Berkeley C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Berkeley B | Stanford C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Stanford B | Stanford A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |