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16th Annual LA SKINS FEST – Save The Date
The 16th Annual LA SKINS FEST takes place this November 15th - 20th, 2022 with screenings at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood! The year's festival will showcase over sixty films and host filmmakers from around the world. Stay tuned for showtimes and tickets. Once again, this year’s festival will offer a week-long series of... Read more »
Find out more »16th Annual LA SKINS FEST
The 16th Annual LA SKINS FEST takes place this November 15th - 20th, 2022 with screenings at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood! The year's festival will showcase over sixty films and host filmmakers from around the world. Stay tuned for showtimes and tickets. Once again, this year’s festival will offer a week-long series of... Read more »
Find out more »Ongoing
Youth Media and Tech Workshop Overview
Since 2009, the Native American Youth Media and Tech Workshop has travelled to reservations and urban centers across the world to provide an expansive and comprehensive program that provides new access for our community. Every year, we expand the workshop to include new curriculum, new technology and new equipment. Our multimedia curriculum... Read more »
Find out more »3rd Annual Native American Showrunner Program – Fellows Selected
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 »
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Native Youth Media Weekend
The LA SKINS FEST has launched the 2022 Native Youth Multimedia Weekend. We have returned with studios tours, film workshops and the Hollywood Pow Wow. Check out the activities we are offering this year! Friday November 18th, invited Native youth participants tour Sony Pictures movie lot. Invited Participants will learn about film and television history,... Read more »
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Cotanka Calling
A would be couple have an instant connection and live out their love story in two different time lines or two different life times. The environment around them will play a factor in their ability to connect.
Find out more »Ellay
Ellay is a short about how expensive it is to be poor. A day in the life of Aidan Alvarez shows how difficult juggling multiple aspects of life can be. It depicts the complexity of love and what it means to truly be there for someone even when the payoff isn’t what you expect. From... Read more »
Find out more »Stripper
When 13-year-old Cricket walks past the local strip club with his friends, nothing can prepare him for who they see walking into work: his mom. With rumors starting to spread, Cricket must take matters into his own hands to clear his mom's name and prove that she isn't a stripper.
Find out more »Commodity
Commodity is a Modern Native American folktale about one man’s trials and tribulation to get an indian taco.
Find out more »Seeds
Without parents to guide them, Loretta and Raven reflect on the love their parents modeled and the grief of their loss. While one finds catharsis in their mother’s old VHS camera the other struggles with a potential pregnancy.
Find out more »The Original Shareholder Experience
THE ORIGINAL SHAREHOLDER EXPERIENCE is a short satire-thriller set in the high-elevation boardrooms of corporate conglomerate THE FREEDOM COMPANY, following true-believer REBECCA, an Indigenous telepresenter nearing the top of her class through selling “authentic” Native memorabilia to her audience on her show, a mix between QVC, Mad Money, and The History Channel.
Find out more »Opening Night Screening – 16th Annual LA SKINS FEST
Native filmmakers shared an incredible collection of short films at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood to open the incredible films premiering at the 16th Annual LA SKINS FEST! Native directors, writers, producers and actors joined the Q&A following the screening. Thanks to the artists for their hard work! Special thanks to our host Janae Collins!... Read more »
Find out more »10:00 pm
Opening Screening After Party
The LA SKINS FEST hosts a night with Native musicians at the Hard Rock in Hollywood! We celebrate our opening showcase of indigenous cinema with a special event at the iconic party place in the heart of the entertainment industry. The Native community and festival-goers will enjoy a special collection of indigenous musicians provided by... Read more »
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