The Exiles with Edgar Garcia and Adam Piron

To honor the history of Bunker Hill and its importance as a landing place for Native peoples who left their reservations to start a new life in Los Angeles, The Broad presented a special screening of The Exiles (1961). The film chronicles a night in the lives of young Native Americans living in the Bunker Hill district, now a bustling artistic corridor on the edge of downtown Los Angeles. The film is based on interviews with the participants and follows them as they flirt, drink, party, fight, and dance. The Exiles is gritty, realistic, beautifully photographed, and energized by a rock-and-roll score from Norman Knowles and The Revels. A post-screening conversation with Edgar García, Interim General Manager for El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument with over twenty-five years’ experience in cultural policy, arts administration, historic preservation, and urban planning and Adam Piron (Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma and Mohawk), filmmaker, writer, and curator who is also Director of Sundance Institute's Indigenous Program and a co-founder of COUSIN: a film collective dedicated to supporting Indigenous artists experimenting with, and pushing the boundaries, of the moving image.