Creative Capital

Billy Luther Grab

Discipline
Film/Video
Medium
Documentary
Subject

Cultural Identity

Religion and Spirituality
State
California
Year
2008
Status
Touring

Description

Grab is an intimate portrait of the little-documented Grab Day in the villages of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, who annually throw water and food items from the rooftop of a home to people standing below. A community-wide prayer of abundance, thanks, and renewal, Grab Day exists at the intersection of traditional Native and contemporary Western cultures. Luther’s film, which is narrated by Parker Posey, follows three families as they prepare for the annual event, chronicling their lives for the year leading up to this day.

Billy Luther

Billy Luther belongs to the Navajo, Hopi and Laguna Pueblo tribes and is the director of the documentary, Miss Navajo, which premiered at the 2007 Sun…
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Project Updates

2011: GRAB screens in the All Roads Film Festival at the National Geographic Museum
2011: Grab has New York premiere at the National Museum of the American Indian
2011: Still photos from Grab are featured in Grab: The Exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in New York
2011: Grab has world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival