Alton Lizer and Renisha Clara Lizer, better known as Synapse and Renisha Clara are a Hip Hop father/daughter duo of the Dine’ Nation who promote, foster and perpetuate the philosophies of Hip Hop culture. The duo motivate communities to express their inner voices moved by freedom of thought and tell inexpressible stories through raps by touching base… Read more »
Sherman Indian High School
The 2018 NATIVE YOUTH MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP will be working with Sherman Indian High School in Riverside, CA. Sherman Native youth will be producing digital video projects in various genres, including short documentary, narrative short fiction and public service announcements. Films produced in the program will have a community screening on the final day at Sherman… Read more »
2018 Native American Documentary Track Program
The documentary track program will be composed of an intensive panel discussion with Visionmaker Executive Director Shirley Sneve, First Nations Experience Executive Director Micah Wright and Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Film Fund Manager Paola Mottura. The panel will be moderated by LA Skins Fest Executive Director Ian Skorodin. We will have a food and beverage reception… Read more »
3rd Native American TV Writers Lab
Congratulations to our 2018 Native American TV Writers Lab fellows for completing the program! Seven Native writers developed incredible new television pilots. The writers pitched three original ideas, selected one to develop and crafted their idea into a second draft within the 5 week intensive. Actors read the scripts during the final week. Thanks to… Read more »
Mohegan Tribe
The NATIVE YOUTH MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP travel and worked with Mohegan Native tribe. Mohegan Native were taught how to produce digital video projects about their tribal history, language, and culture. The youth worked on four films during the workshop! The NATIVE YOUTH MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP is a filmmaking program designed to teach acting, writing, directing, camera operation,… Read more »
Wellpinit School District
The 2018 NATIVE YOUTH MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP partnered with Paramount Studios and conducted a workshop at Wellpinit Middle School in the Spokane Indian Reservation. The workshop was an intensive film program that was designed to teach acting, writing, directing, camera operation, and video editing to Native American youth. In the program, Spokane Native youth produced four… Read more »
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe (UMUT)
The 2018 NATIVE YOUTH MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP partnered with the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe’s (UMUT) Tiwahe Youth Film Program Initiative and conducted two workshops in the UMUT Indian Reservation. Workshops were held in Towaoc, Colorado and in White Mesa, Utah. UMUT Native youth learned how to write, direct, shoot and edit their own movies! They produced… Read more »
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe (UMUT)
The 2018 NATIVE YOUTH MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP partnered with the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe’s (UMUT) Tiwahe Youth Film Program Initiative and conducted two workshops in the UMUT Indian Reservation. Workshops were held in Towaoc, Colorado and in White Mesa, Utah. UMUT Native youth learned how to write, direct, shoot and edit their own movies! They produced… Read more »
2018 NATIVE AMERICAN TV WRITERS LAB
NATIVE AMERICAN PARTICIPANTS SELECTED FOR THE 2018 NATIVE AMERICAN TV WRITERS LAB Los Angeles, CA – The LA Skins Fest, a Native American film festival, in partnership with Comcast NBCUniversal, CBS Entertainment Diversity, Netflix, HBO, United Talent Agency, and Turner, announced today they have selected 7 participants for the 3rd NATIVE AMERICAN TV WRITERS LAB, a talent development program that aims to… Read more »
NATIVE AMERICAN FEATURE FILM WRITERS LAB Final Deadline
Final Deadline June 8th