Halpate

(HD video, Directed by Adam Piron & Adam Khalil, 14 mins, 2020)

Considered a staple of Florida tourism, alligator wrestling has been performed by members of the Seminole Tribe for over a century. As the practice has changed over the years, HALPATE profiles the hazards and history of the spectacle through the words of the tribe's alligator wrestlers themselves and what it has meant to their people's survival.

Screenings:

Walker Art Center, as part of Power Plays, curated by Brett Kashmere & Astria Suparak - 2024

Thousandsuns Cinema - 2022

Native Cinema Showcase, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian - 2021

AFI DOCS - 2021

DOXA Documentary Film Festival - 2021

True/False Film Festival - 2021

San Francisco International Film Festival - 2021

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival - 2021

Seattle International Film Festival - 2021

The New Yorker Documentary Series - 2021

London Short Film Festival - 2020

Camden International Film Festival - 2020