Longhouse Media’s 4th annual “SuperFly Filmmaking Experience, ” was held June 4th-6th, 2009, on the beautiful Squaxin Island Reservation. SuperFly, in partnership with the Seattle International Film Festival, brings together 50 youth and 20 mentors from across the country to participate in a 36-hour filmmaking challenge. Youth engage in a cross cultural experience while learning more about indigenous culture, media literacy, and advanced filmmaking techniques.

This year youth and mentors came from all over Washington, as well as Hawaii, New York, Baltimore, Flagstaff, Phoenix, Santa Fe, San Francisco, and Saskatoon, B.C.! In a mere 36 hours youth worked together to produce four shorts films, based on a script by Native Alaskan Actress/Filmmaker Princess Lucaj, a music video, an animated short, and an original soundtrack, which premiered to a full house on Saturday, June 6th at SIFF’s FutureWave screening at the Egyptian Theater. We are very thankful to the Squaxin Island Tribes for their wonderful support and generosity, and to all the youth, mentors, volunteers, and staff who together made this year nothing short of tremendous. For more information check out our Facebook page for photos http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8662449846&ref=ts or our flicker site…

Posters are here! See image below.