GRACIAS FOR 2017
Thank you, dear friends, for helping us manifest Nasario remembers the Río Puerco with such truth and beauty. We're still in awe of all that came to pass this year - finishing the film, of course, and then, to see it:

• broadcast on New Mexico PBS 
• screened in Santa Fe, Albuquerque  and a mountain town in Spain 
• streaming on NM PBS (you can still watch it for one more day thru 12/31)
• available on DVD 
• receive such heartfelt responses such as this one by famed NM author John Nichols" “exquisite – it’s up there with the best I’ve ever seen.”

And we're just getting started!

Inspired once again, we now plan to go forth and self-distribute the film.
In select locations, we want to link screenings with community sharing/oral history gatherings. As part of the mission of our new project, Faraway is Close, we mean to connect communities & cultures through story, film, song.
We hope to arrange screenings in:

• Southern Spain (where the story of the film begins)
• New Mexico, focusing on Native and Hispanic communities.
• Around the world, starting with a few connections we have in Mexico, Peru and Bolivia.
  
• Now that we have a Spanish dubbed version, all of South America
  

and Latin America are open markets for us!

• And we will submit to some festivals & reach out to theatrical, TV and educational distributors.

Our vision is to create true and profound encounters with audiences and co-presenting partners, to inspire us all to listen and speak the story only we - only you - can tell.
 
One good story deserves another…and another…

 Thank you!  Gracias. Shukriya

Here’s to the adventure of what comes next.
 
And most of all, dear friends, here’s to you.
We're looking forward to our journeys together.
 
As always with profound gratitude
Shebana Coelho, director
and the team at Nasario remembers the Río Puerco

 Last April, Iren Schio and David Fant  - friends of our film who felt so inspired by the Rio Puerco and Nasario's stories - led the students of Santa Fe's Little Earth School in art and song projects!

Iren helped the students create dioramas from word images (by Nasario ) - using soil, rocks and plant fragments from the Río Puerco Valley and incorporating drawings, paintings and clay to make his memories come alive through each creation .

Dave (aka Cowboy Blue) created a song inspired by Nasario - he and the children performed it for Nasario. Olé.

These are the kinds of beautiful evocative arts and humanities interplay that we hope to encourage and inspire in more workshops, more gatherings, to bring out what happens when you encounter the stories that speak or sing to you!

A big THANKS to Iren, David, and the Little Earth School students and teachers and principal, Ellen Souberman

MORE ABOUT IREN AND DAVID HERE
https://www.nasarioremembers.com/team.html

ABOUT LITTLE EARTH SCHOOL
https://littleearthschool.org/