FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Dina Horwedel, Public Education Director, 303-426-890

Hope on the Rez Selected to Screen
at 33rd Annual American Indian Film Festival

The American Indian College Fund submitted Hope on the Rez to a jury for selection for the 33rd Annual American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco, California. The Fund was notified that the short film was selected for screening on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at the Embarcadero Center Cinema, One Embarcadero Center, at the festival's noon program.

Wieden+Kennedy, the Portland-based advertising firm, filmed the video on location in Indian Country. The film depicts American Indian students, tribal colleges, and the need for higher education in Indian Country.