Industry Spotlight: Dan Warrior has a larger-than-life passion for Native representation in film. Dan Warrior (Mvskoke, Absentee Shawnee, Rosebud Sioux) has a larger than life presence. Standing at a modest 6’10” his presence commands a room. Over the last year those rooms have become studios and film sets, and it wasn’t just his [...]
For Leland Prater (Cherokee) the idea of being in movies was always just a dream. Growing up in rural Oklahoma he felt that Hollywood was worlds away. Little did he know that the film industry would find him right here in his home state. Now, having been in several films shot in Oklahoma over the [...]
Industry Spotlight: Jennifer Podemski is creating the representation she wishes to see in the world. Native and Indigenous people, specifically women, are the lowest represented demographic in the film and television industries, both in front of and behind the camera. It's not a new concept, but it still stings. According to a 2019 report [...]
Behind the scenes in Arizona with Mark Williams. Choctaw Nation citizen Mark Williams is an award-winning filmmaker who started out small, learning storytelling skills as a child from his father, and then taking those skills all the way to the big screen. Williams now owns his own production company and has produced, edited [...]
We're excited to be sponsoring the first-ever Indigenous Filmmaker's Lounge at Sundance Film Festival 2020 because #MORENATIVES.
