The Barcid Foundation is proud to announce its selections for the inaugural Native American Showrunner Program, sponsored by Bad Robot, Comcast NBCUniversal and Walt Disney Television, in partnership with Kung Fu Monkey Productions, Sugarshack Animation, Crunchyroll and Owen Dennis. “We are excited to launch a new and robust program that offers genuine… Read more »
Cari Daly is the grandchild of Irish gangsters, Canadian Mennonites and Southern orphans. She grew up in the Washington, DC suburbs, escaped to NYC, and currently lives in South Central LA. While in New York, Cari received her BFA at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, then relocated to the west coast, where she earned… Read more »
NATIVE AMERICAN PARTICIPANTS SELECTED FOR THE 5TH ANNUAL NATIVE AMERICAN TV WRITERS LAB Sponsored by Comcast NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Walt Disney Television, the Cherokee Nation Film Office, Kung Fu Monkey Productions and Snowpants Productions. The LA Skins Fest, a Native American film festival, in partnership with Comcast NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Walt Disney Television,… Read more »
Born and raised on the Crow reservation in Montana, Brian grew up floating the river, hunting, exploring, jumping off cliffs and blasting Korn in his parents basement. After getting cut from the basketball team two years in a row, Brian took a direction that would ultimately change his life. Running every day for nearly two… Read more »
Kaherawaks Thompson was born and raised on Kawehnoke, an island on the St. Lawrence River in the northernmost territory of Akwesasne. An alum of the Sundance Institute Native programs, Kaherawaks workshopped her short screenplay, Tehokkenhén:tons (“Close to Death”), during the 2010 Native Lab. In August 2012, a short film was produced from the workshopped story,… Read more »
Brian began his career in Los Angeles as an actor in the late 1990’s working both in TV and independent film. He spent several years honing his skills as a storyteller while understanding character psychology before deciding to follow a deeper calling to create story rather than just play in it. Best Punching Bags for… Read more »
Boise Esquerra is a Native American (Hopi) filmmaker who is currently enrolled in the Colorado River Indian Tribes in Parker, AZ. He is finishing out his last term at the New York Film Academy (Screenwriting), where he is at the top of his class and is in his 9th year of writing. He holds a… Read more »
Kris Crenwelge is a Los Angeles-based writer whose half-hour comedies focus on her careers in sports and entertainment, her experience as a motherless daughter, and life with her maternal Choctaw grandmother. Hailing from Houston, Kris graduated from Texas A&M University and landed a job working for a travel company in Mexico and the Caribbean. Within… Read more »
Sheila Chalakee, a citizen of Muscogee-Creek Nation, is a comedian and writer whose work has been seen on PBS, WEtv, E! Network, Univision, FNX, and most recently, Amazon Prime. Her collaborations with BuzzFeed, YouTube, and Google garnered over hundreds of millions of views collectively leading to positive press regarding Native issues from The Huffington Post,… Read more »
Sugar on the surface, strong on the inside, Emma finds a dance floor everywhere… even the grocery store aisle. Originally from Portland, Oregon, Emma moved to Los Angeles for college where she attended California Institute of the arts and received her BFA in Acting. She’s been writing since she was small: first picture books then… Read more »
