RisingVoices

Rising Voices tells the story of young Lakotas who are on a journey to learn their language--representing a new generation transforming their world in the 21st century. 5 short films by Lakota filmmakers will be integrated into the 90-minute anchor doc. Description Rising Voices/ Hótȟaŋiŋpi is a multi-platform documentary project that portrays the growing movement among tribes all over the country to revitalize their languages -- a movement for creative transformation by communities and individuals, which challenges the expectations put on them by outsiders and those put on young generations by the old. The anchor of this project is a 90-minute documentary film intended for national broadcast on public television. Rising Voices/ Hótȟaŋiŋpi will focus on one of the strongest language revitalization movements in the country, among the Lakota people of the northern plains. "Hótȟaŋiŋpi" is the Lakota word for, "They will have their say."