I have to be honest. This movie was very familiar to me; sometimes it was too familiar. I am part Navajo and many times as a kid my family would spend time in New Mexico to visit my dad’s family.
After premiering at SXSW earlier this year, filmmaker Billy Luther‘s (Navajo, Hopi and Laguna Pueblo) narrative feature debut Frybread Face and Me hit the festival circuit and GLAAD has followed it since.
Billy Luther’s “Frybread Face and Me” walks a fine line. The story of an indigenous boy’s summer on a Navajo reservation, its tone is light. In the Navajo community it shows, crime and poverty are present, but they don’t come close to defining it.
Benny (Keir Tallman) keeps his hair long, wears his mother’s hat, loves TV soap operas and Fleetwood Mac, and plays with dolls, though they are, technically speaking, action figurines.
Gentle comfort is something the entire world is in need of these days, and “Frybread Face and Me” delivers that in abundance.
FRYBREAD FACE AND ME follows two adolescent Navajo cousins as they bond during a summer on their grandmother’s ranch. Streaming on Netflix starting Friday, November 24. Read More