Courtesy of Sundance Institute photo by Marshall Stief. This has established a rich legacy of work and has supported more than filmmakers through labs, grants, mentorships, public programs, and the platform of the Sundance Film Festival.
When her son calls her in the middle of the night, Alice takes action, abducting the children on an illicit charter trip to the Canary Islands.
World Premiere. The lives of a Native woman and a troubled young boy intersect over the course of a school day on a reservation in Oklahoma. An experimental look at the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, following two people as they navigate their own relationships to the spirit world and a place in between life and death.
Director and screenwriter Lisa Jackson Anishinaabe ; Canada. An otherworldly deep dive into the hidden beauty of lichens, asking what we might learn from them. Ancient and diverse, thriving in adversity, confounding scientists to this day, lichen is a model of emergence. Director and screenwriter Christopher Auchter Haida ; Canada. Meet the current Indigenous Program Fellows whose film projects are being supported in their development.
Peshawn Bread is a screenwriter, poet, and cinematographer from the Penneducah sugar eater and Yappaducah root eater bands of the Comanche Nation. Her writing explores Indigenous women, sexuality and humorous experiences. Her current project, The Diary of Mistress Red , is about a Native dominatrix for hire finds cultural healing in whipping apologies out of her white supremacist clients.
