SILVER BULLET PRODUCTIONS’ MISSION
Silver Bullet Productions’ mission is to encourage educational achievement through a hands-on approach to film making projects that empower students, enhance academic and economic opportunities, and preserve community culture and heritage.
Non-profit
Silver Bullet Productions is a 501(c)(3) educational film production company, incorporated in New Mexico.
NEWS AT SILVER BULLET PRODUCTIONS
Tickets now available for our May 12 event LIGHTS! CAMERA!... LEARNING!
Silver Bullet Productions biannual fundraiser will be held at the beautiful Inn and Spa at Loretto in Santa Fe. The banter of Award winning Author Michael McGarrity and Actor, Director, and activist, Wes Studi, moderated by Kirk Ellis, will engage you in the evening’s theme, “Native Americans in Film & Fiction.” You are invited to participate in this lively discussion. Simply send your question by May 10 to pampierce@silverbulletproductions.com.
The evening will begin with a silent auction of more than 50 high-quality items plus cocktails and appetizers. Following the silent auction, you will be mesmerized by McGarrity, Studi, and Ellis before a seated dinner and then a live auction of ten wonderful and unique items featuring Paul Margetson and Ali MacGraw. If you have followed the rave revues of the Luminaria Restaurant, you know the quality of the food and atmosphere to expect from the Inn and Spa at Loretto. Those attending will receive either a gift certificate for Michael McGarrity’s newest book Hard Country to be released in June 2012, or a Wes Studi film DVD.
Tickets are $150 per person ($90 is tax deductible). Tables of 8 are available. Seating is limited. Money raised by this event will go to projects that fulfill the goal of engaging rural and Pueblo students in hands on filmmaking which empowers them, enhances their academic and economic opportunities, and preserves community, culture and heritage. Such projects include suicide prevention workshops in Pueblo communities as well as the development of documentaries such as CANES OF POWER.
More information can be found on our Events page | Click here to purchase tickets
Click here to view Silver Bullet’s advertisement which is in Western Art & Architecture Magazine’s (WA&A) Spring 2012 Issue. You now have the opportunity to bid on this unforgettable sculpture “Horse and Rider” by George Rivera, Pueblo of Pojoaque. In addition, WA&A is donating 100% of all magazine subscriptions between now and June 1, 2012. Click here for subscription form.
Lead Sponsor – Inn and Spa at Loretto – Offers Benefits to Friends of Silver Bullet Productions!
Anyone who mentions Silver Bullet Productions will receive a 20% discount off all food and non alcoholic beverages at the Luminaria Restaurant and the Living Room, as well as on Spa treatments.
More information about the Inn and Spa at Loretto and can be found at www.innatloretto.com.
See the July 8 Albuquerque Journal article on Luminaria here.
CANES OF POWER
In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln recognized Pueblo independence by bestowing an ornamental, silver tipped cane to each Pueblo Nation. From more than 500 Indian nations in the United States, only New Mexico’s 19 Pueblos received these symbolic gifts of sovereign status.
Why? What was the motivation of this American President, fighting a War between States, a stranger to the Southwest and its people? A leader whose harsh policies with other tribal nations seem to be the antithesis to his recognition of New Mexico’s Pueblos.
The Lincoln Canes documentary film – CANES OF POWER – and the related educational program, provide the vehicle for Pueblo people to tell the story of the Canes, and the struggle for sovereignty, upon which cultural survival depends.
CANES OF POWER is a completed documentary film, told through historical narrative, interviews, video images of Pueblo communities, and photographic or oral histories of cultural and political events.
The first screening of Canes of Power was held Wednesday, April 11, 2012, at 5:30 pm at the Institute of American Indian Arts, 83 Avan Nu Po Road, Library and Technology Building Auditorium. Silver Bullet Productions thanks the standing-room only audience for sharing the Premiere of this film, the participating panel for audience discussion, and the sponsor for this screening, Institute of American Indian Arts, and also thanks our radio sponsors KSFR and Hutton Broadcasting. Silver Bullet Productions apologizes to those who attempted to attend and yet were turned away due to the unexpected crowd.
Those of you who plan to be in the DC area this September, please look for the announcement of the Washington, DC Premiere at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
Silver Bullet Productions Receives McCune Charitable Foundation Grant
Silver Bullet Productions is the honored recipient of a grant from the McCune Charitable Foundation. This grant funds our hands-on film making workshops in Pueblo communities. Thanks to the McCune Foundation, SBP was able to provide a workshop at Native American Community Academy (NACA) and leave five new camera packages behind for NACA's continued work. We will use additional McCune grant money for an additional Pueblo Workshop later in 2012.
ANCIENT PATHWAYS - MODERN LEADERS: Voices of Pueblo Leadership, a documentary film from Silver Bullet Productions – now available on DVD
There is significance to the role of pueblo “heroes” in community life that is greater than self; leadership, an expression of Pueblo values, is service to the greater community. In pueblos, spirituality and service are the basic qualities against which leaders are judged. Leaders are chosen for character, knowledge, and commitment to cultural survival. Individuals do not seek power or control, nor do they demand fame or authority. Leaders are not self-selected, but nourished, encouraged and chosen based on the commitment and skills needed by a community at a given time (American Indian Research and Policy Institute, 1999).
This 45-minute documentary film is a profound and stimulating glimpse into this model of leadership that has sustained a culture for more than a thousand years.
To purchase a DVD, please click here.
If you would like to view a trailer of the film, please click here.
BOARD AND MANAGEMENT
Silver Bullet Productions has thirteen volunteer members of the Board of Directors and two day-to-day managers with expertise in education, film, community awareness and relationships, government agencies, marketing and development, law, and long term planning. Silver Bullet Productions also has the guidance of fourteen Advisors and Honorary Board members.