LAWTON, Okla. – Grab some popcorn and prepare to view some of the best in Native American film at the 11th annual Comanche Nation College Film Festival, November 7-8 inside the Comanche Nation College James Cox Auditorium, 1608 S.W. 9th Street on the CNC campus in Lawton.

The festival will begin from 1-3 p.m. Friday November 7 with the workshop “From Script to Concept” by Choctaw filmmaker Tvli Jacob. This workshop will include examples of Jacob’s film career as a producer, writer, director and cinematographer.  Jacob’s productions include American Indian Graffiti, Search for the World’s Best Indian Taco, Shouting Secrets and the PBS series We Shall Remain.

The primary screenings will be 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday November 8. Documentaries on the bill include Forty Winters, a film about the planning of a 40-year commemoration of the Alcatraz occupation of 1969, and Indian Relay, a film about horse relay racing by the tribes of Idaho and Montana.

One of the feature films in the festival is The Daughter of Dawn, an 80-minute silent film shot in May-July 1920 in the Wichita Mountains of southwest Oklahoma. The film has an all-Indian cast of 300 Kiowa and Comanche, who had been on the reservation less than 50 years. The actors and extras brought with them their own tipis, horses, clothing, and material culture. The lead actor is White Parker, the son of Comanche leader Quanah Parker.

Additional entries include Shouting Secrets, written by Jacob and Mickey Blaine, starring Gil Birmingham and Chaske Spencer of Twilight fame; the Native American Paranormal Project’s new production Wheelock Academy; Crooked Arrows, also starring Birmingham; Lesser Blessed starring Benjamin Bratt and Kiowa Gordon; “Wolverine,” a short documentary about the James Bay Cree’s fight to protect their water and land by keeping uranium mining out of their territory; “The Big Lizards Are Camping” a stop-motion animated short by 12-year-old Chado Daffron; and “Itsy Bitsy Spider” by nine-year-old twins Kateri and Matthias Daffron.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call CNC at 580-591-0203.