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CASCADIA International Women's Film Festival presents "Rising Through The Fray" as their Native American Heritage Month film at 2:30 PM Sunday, Nov. 15 at the Firehouse Arts & Events Center (1314 Harris Ave., Fairhaven). Q&A with director Courtney Montour to follow the film's screening.SYNOPSIS:
Uniting from across continents to bring representation to the sport they love, Indigenous Rising laces up their skates to claim their space on the roller derby track.
#Indigenous Rising is the first team in roller derby history to break the barriers of representing a single country at the Roller Derby World Cup – igniting a movement that pulsates throughout the sport and within each other. "Rising Through the Fray" follows the team as it welcomes a new generation of players determined to change the face of roller derby—an inclusive, female-empowering sport still lacking diversity.
With a compassionate and candid lens, filmmaker Courtney Montour weaves energetic on-track game play with tender moments in teammates’ daily lives as skaters from over 30 Indigenous Nations navigate and learn each other’s play styles at tournaments and find strength within each other to compete and skate onto the track with pride.
Intimate portraits of teammates Sour Cherry, Krispy and Hawaiian Blaze reveal stories of displacement and disconnection from their culture and identities and the journey of finding belonging within team Indigenous Rising.
"Rising Through the Fray" offers a poignant exploration of resiliency, healing and reconnection of a roller derby family with a bond that goes beyond sport.
Tickets here: https://bit.ly/4jhKiQh
ABOUT CASCADIA
Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, CASCADIA showcases and celebrates exceptional films directed by women. It is one of only a handful of festivals in the U.S. and the only one in the Pacific Northwest currently dedicated to this purpose. The organization also works year-round to provide film production, exhibition, and distribution education.
Since its first festival in 2017, #CASCADIA has presented films by more than 300 women directors from around the world. More than one-third of the films shown at the 2025 festival were directed by women of color. Films by students, emerging directors and Indigenous women are included.
Our 2027 festival is scheduled April 22-25 in-person at The Pickford Film Center (1318 Bay St. Bellingham). More information is on our website at www.cascadiafilmfest.org.
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Firehouse Arts and Events Center, 1314 Harris Ave, Bellingham, WA 98225-7116, United States
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