{"id":108588,"date":"2015-10-29T16:26:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T22:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/los-angeles-festival-to-screen-ute-mountain-ute-teen-film\/"},"modified":"2015-10-29T16:26:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T22:26:06","slug":"los-angeles-festival-to-screen-ute-mountain-ute-teen-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/los-angeles-festival-to-screen-ute-mountain-ute-teen-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles festival to screen Ute Mountain Ute teen film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Escape
Escape actors Wendell Mills, Jr. and Kamea Clark pose with Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Chairman Manuel Heart at a world premiere after-party this month in Cortez.<\/span>Tobie Baker\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

An online fundraising campaign has been launched to help Ute Mountain Ute teens attend next month\u2019s LA Skins Fest.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, some 14 teens from Towaoc wrote, directed, produced and performed in \u201cEscape,\u201d a 23-minute narrative film depicting struggles that Native American youths face living on a reservation. Tapped as an official selection at LA Skins Fest, \u201cEscape\u201d makes it national debut at Culver Studios in Los Angeles on Nov. 15.<\/p>\n

A recently launched social media GoFundMe.com campaign aims to cover the cost to send all of the Ute Mountain Ute teens that had a role in the film making process to attend the Native American film festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour contribution will help give these youth a once in a lifetime experience to present their film, and speak on a national stage about the prevention of teen suicide and violence,\u201d said fundraising organizer Beverly Santicola.<\/p>\n

Santicola is seeking individual donations of $20 or more prior to Nov. 13.<\/p>\n

\u201cEscape\u201d centers on the lives of two main characters, Rachel, a bullied teen played by 14-year-old Kamea Clark, and Adam, a teen struggling with his sexual orientation, portrayed by 17-year-old Wendell Mills, Jr. The duo forms a suicide pact to escape their perceived hopelessness.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt moved me,\u201d said Ute Mountain Ute Chairman Manuel Heart after a world premiere screening in Cortez earlier this month. \u201cThis is going to open people\u2019s eyes as well as their hearts and minds.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEscape\u201d is one of 50 films to be screened at LA Skins Fest, which aims to offer a voice for emerging Native American actors, filmmakers, writers and directors.<\/p>\n

To donate, visit gofundme.com\/sv6gjk6g.<\/p>\n

To view \u201cEscape,\u201d visit vimeo.com\/141806754.<\/p>\n

tbaker@the-journal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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