In The Second World Film Analysis

In the short film The 6th World, written and directed by Nanobah Becker as well as the television episode of In the Blood directed by Jorge Montesi, Native Americans are put in the center of focus in a futuristic context. Both display several progressive aspects about Native Americans and include Native American main characters. The female main characters in each short film exude power and outline the possibilities for Native American communities to have a place within the contexts of new worlds, new technologies, and television. The contents of each short film are extremely progressive, which might be made possible through the science fiction genre in which they both fall under. In her article on Reznet News, Stacy Thacket explains that the director of The 6th World, Nanobah Becker, used “the Navajo origin story” to create the short film. By integrating a traditional Native American origin story with the futuristic Mars colonization narrative, the progressive aspects are not lost and instead continue into a new world. The pilot of the spacecraft, Tazbah
Both of the short films involve central female Native American characters with certain levels of power and the freedom to maintain their Native American traditions while respectfully entering new worlds in space. In the Blood is an especially good example of how people should enter space, and it is shown through the main character Callie Whitehorse, who guides the audience through space with a traditional Navajo approach as well as an appreciation and respect for all forms of