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Local East End artist, Ginew Benton will present a screening of his film Looking Glass. In the film, a Native American young man suffers the murder of his father and builds a time machine using science and traditional Native American knowledge in an attempt to save him but ultimately discovers his true purpose in creation.
Ginew Benton (Ojibway) is a Native American filmmaker local to the Hamptons, NY. Growing up on the Shinnecock Nation Territory, Ginew Benton graduated from Southampton High School, and continued his education graduating from Stony Brook University with Honors in Theatre and High Honors in Media Arts. Benton is a 2007 Ford Foundation Film Fellow for his short film script Looking Glass. In 2006, he participated in the Fox American Indian summer Institute at University of California – Los Angeles, directing the short video Cry for Help. He has directed several other shorts, including Monotony, for which the educational viewing rights were requested by The Smithsonian Institute, The Hatrix, screened at the Annual Urban Visions Festival, Museum of Television, and Radio City in NY, United Nations Short Film Award recipient, Crossroads, and Looking Glass.
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