Events for May 21, 2022

7th ANNUAL NATIVE AMERICAN TV WRITERS LAB ANNOUNCES TWELVE SELECTED FELLOWS The Native American Media Alliance, in partnership with Netflix, Amazon Studios, Comcast NBCUniversal, Kung Fu Monkey Productions, Cherokee Nation Film Office, Snowpants Productions and A+E Networks is excited to announce the twelve selections for the 7th Annual Native American TV Writers Lab fellows. “We... Read more »

The Native American Media Alliance announced its selections for the inaugural Native American Showrunner Program, sponsored by Bad Robot, Comcast NBCUniversal, National Endowment for the Arts, Pop Culture Collaboration and A+E Networks, in partnership with Kung Fu Monkey Productions. “We are excited to usher in another year of incredible writers for this unique intensive," said... Read more »

In 2012, the Native Youth Media and Tech Workshop launched its international outreach program! We partnered with the US Embassy and worked with the Amazigh people in Morocco. The Amazigh people of Northern Africa invited us teach our film workshop to their community during their week long festival. We provided three workshops with their film... Read more »

In 2013, the Native Youth Media and Tech Workshop collaborated with United National Indian Tribal Youth. We worked with several Native youth from around the country to provide a film workshop. Participants worked with film equipment to produce a short piece about their annual youth conference: In October, we travelled to the Colorado River Indian... Read more »

 In 2014, we expanded our workshop to the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay, the Pala Band of Mission Indians, and the Big Pine Paiute Tribe of the Owens Valley. The youth produced over fifty films that ranged from drama to comedy to documentary. In July, Native youth from the Pala Band of Mission Indians produced several... Read more »

In 2015, we expanded our workshop to include new tribes and tribal organizations. We partnered with the Morongo Tribal TANF in San Bernardino, CA and the Pauma Band of Luiseno Indians in San Diego, CA. We also continued our partnership with the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay and conducted another film workshop. Morongo Tribal TANF was... Read more »

2016 was a huge year as we worked with eight tribes, tribal organizations and travelled back to Morocco! Native and indigenous youth produced several films, documentaries and more that were showcased at our annual film festival. In June, we expanded our outreach to Oklahoma and collaborated with the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma. Iowa youth produced... Read more »

In 2021, we hosted several online workshops for filmmaking, animation and anime. Throughout the year, we collaborated with Seven Generations at United American Indian Involvement in Los Angeles. In February, we conducted a Native Youth Anime Workshop that taught 3-D animation software and drawing software. Native youth learned about anime and developed their own anime... Read more »