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Lydia Nibley

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TWO SPIRITS interweaves the tragic story of a motherÂ’s loss of her son with a revealing look at the largely unknown history of a time when the world wasnÂ’t simply divided into male and female and many Native American cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders.

Fred Martinez was nÃ¡dleehÃ, a male-bodied person with a feminine essence, a special gift according to his ancient Navajo culture. He was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at sixteen by a young man who bragged to friends that he had Â“bug-smashed a fag.Â” TWO SPIRITS explores the life and death of a boy who was also a girl and the essentially spiritual nature of gender and sexuality. The film makes the case that in the twenty-first century we need to return to traditional values.

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Two Spirits (2009)

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Lydia Nibley produces, directs, and writes film and television projects. Her work has been broadcast internationally and she has created and contributed to works that have received Emmy, Clio, and numerous film festival awards. Lydia Nibley's documentary TWO SPIRITS aired on PBS--Independent Lens and received the Audience Award, as well as breaking all records for audience engagement online. The film is available on over 500 college and university campuses. TWO SPIRITS has screened in over 60 film festivals around the world and aired on the CBC in Canada and NITV in Australia.The Creative Visions Foundation named Lydia Nibley as one of their Creative Activists--someone who skillfully uses media and the arts to raise awareness about the world's most critical issues and whose projects ignite lasting social change.