The Native American Showrunner program is a multi-month intensive designed to address the lack of Native American executive producers in television. The overall goal is to provide experienced Native American writers an opportunity to gain new skills and elevate their opportunities in the television writing industry. This program will have selected Native… Read more »
“As part of our mission to support underrepresented and emerging filmmakers, FilmLA is proud to support this initiative for Native American writers. Expanding the reach of underrepresented communities not only vastly broadens the entertainment library for all of us, it also greatly increases our knowledge and understanding of the greater American community,” announced Paul Audley,… Read more »
The 5th Annual NATIVE AMERICAN TV WRITERS LAB call for applications is now closed. The lab is sponsored by Comcast NBCUniversal, Cherokee Nation Film Office, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Kung Fu Monkey Productions and Snowpants Productions. The NATIVE AMERICAN TV WRITERS LAB is a five week intensive scriptwriters program that prepares Native Americans for writing careers… Read more »
The Native American Youth Animation Workshop was a two day intensive workshop that offered Native American youth new opportunities in animation. This lab was designed to offer genuine access for Native Americans interested in learning and entering the field of animation. The LA SKINS FEST partnered with Sherman Indian High School in Riverside, CA and provided… Read more »
The NATIVE AMERICAN ANIMATION LAB wrapped the first year! It was an incredible experience for the 8 fellows. Participants spent the week meeting with executives from Skydance Animation, Cartoon Network, Sugarshack Animation, Kung Fu Monkey Productions, Universal Pictures, Kung Fu Monkey Productions, FOX Animation and Disney Animation. The animation lab culminated in a pitch panel… Read more »
Vladimir Perez is a comedian from Brooklyn NY and is of Puerto Rican and Taino Indian decent. As an actor he can be seen in network sitcoms that include Modern Family, Brooklyn Nine Nine, The Unicorn and the upcoming Disney+ show Diary of a Female President. As a writer, Vlad was honored to be a… Read more »
Sierra Revis, Yuchi, is a Graphic Designer currently working for the Native-owned marketing agency, Buffalo Nickel Creative based in Pawhuska, OK. There she has designed posters, brochures, pamphlets, business cards, and stickers as well as digital assets like web banners, social media images, and PDF reports for a variety of Native American non-profit clients including… Read more »
Jason Turner is an accomplished filmmaker, producer, editor, and director. A music video he shot and directed won the Art at Work award in 2013 from the Arts Council of Kansas City (ArtsKC). Many of his films have screened at film festivals. His motion comic, The Iron Detective: Sentinel, won the Achievement in Animation award… Read more »
I have trained in traditional Native American lore and shamanism since I can remember. After a couple of years of Agricultural Business at Cal Poly I realized that the Native elders I knew were disappearing and soon they would be gone forever. Because of this I decided to study with several medicine men and leaders… Read more »
After completing my freshman year of college, my partner, Steve, who is also my father, and I started a small animation team in Thailand. We quickly discovered our love of filmmaking and animation . We worked quickly and have since produced several shorts and two animated feature films since our humble beginnings. We focused on… Read more »
