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Two Spirits
1:30 PM THURSDAY • ST. GEORGE 108
Filmmaker Lydia Nibley explores the cultural context
behind a tragic and senseless murder. Fred Martinez was
a Navajo youth slain at the age of 16 by a man who
bragged to his friends that he ‘bug-smashed a fag’. But
Fred was part of an honored Navajo tradition—the
‘nadleeh’, or ‘two-spirit’, who possesses a balance of
masculine and feminine traits. Through telling Fred’s
story, Nibley reminds us of the values that America’s
indigenous peoples have long embraced.
NOT RATED • 54 MINUTES
Ashley Horne, Senior Government Affairs Associate,
National Indian Child Welfare Association, Portland, OR
Jill Shepard Erickson, M.S.W., A.C.S.W., Executive
Director, First Nations Behavioral Health Association,
Portland, OR
Jeff Poirier, Ph.D. Candidate, M.A., P.M.P., Senior
Researcher, Cultural Competence Action Team Member
and LGBTQI2-S Learning Community Co-Lead,
Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family
Mental Health, American Institutes for
Research,Washington, DC
Who Cares About Kelsey?
8:30 AM FRIDAY • ST. GEORGE 108
Who Cares about Kelsey? is a documentary film about
Kelsey Carroll’s journey from being a defiant and
disruptive young person into a motivated and selfconfident
young woman. Kelsey, who has a variety of
issues with which she has struggled over the years
including ADHD, emotional and behavioral problems,
immaturity, angry outbursts, hyperactivity, and
stubbornness, has one goal for herself—graduating from
her high school. During Kelsey’s sophomore year, her
school which had one of the highest drop-out rates in New
Hampshire, implemented Positive Behavioral Interventions
and Supports (PBIS) and a planning process for youth
and young adults called RENEW to help students such as
Kelsey. This film, which is in Kelsey’s own voice and the
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voices of her family and teachers, tells how critical persons
in her life encouraged and helped Kelsey to discover her
own strengths and dreams as well as ask for help if she
needed it. Who Cares about Kelsey? shows this unique
young woman’s transformation as she finally graduates,
finds her own happiness, and becomes a champion for
other students who are at risk of school failure.
NOT RATED • 75 MINUTES
Nicholas Read, Research Analyst, Technical Assistance
Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health,
American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC
Debra Grabill, Education Content Specialist, Technical
Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental
Health, American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC
JoAnne Malloy, Ph.D., Ph.D., Assistant Clinical
Professor, Institute on Disability, University of New
Hampshire, Concord, NH
Kelsey Carroll, Young Adult Featured in the Film,
Concord, NH
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
8:30 AM SATURDAY • ST. GEORGE 108
Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11
attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a final
message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling
disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by a
relentlessly active mind that refuses to believe in things
that can’t be observed, Oskar begins searching New York
City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in
his father’s closet. His journey through the five boroughs
takes him beyond his own loss to a greater understanding
of the observable world around him.
RATED PG-13 • 129 MINUTES
Ernestine Briggs-King, Ph.D., Director, Data and
Evaluation Program, National Center for Child Traumatic
Stress, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
Ken Martinez, Psy.D., Principal Researcher and Mental
Health Content Specialist, Technical Assistance
Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health,
American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC
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