Runningwater, N. Bird Cheyenne/Mescalero Apache Associate Director, Native American and Indigenous Programs, Sundance Institute
Indigenous Film: Embracing a Modern Form of Storytelling With Duane Gastant' Aucoin, Morgan Howard, and Caryl McConkie In an era when Native languages and cultures are shifting, declining, morphing and revitalizing there is hope on the horizon that lies in the hands and cameras of Native filmmakers. Bird Runningwater will present on the Institute's Indigenous Program and the strides it is making in supporting Native filmmakers. The Native Program runs filmmaker labs supporting early stage development of short films, features and documentaries, offers a grant fund to support the production of projects, and selects films for Sundance Film Festival to be shared with audiences. He will screen SIKUMI by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean (Inupiaq) and share the films journey from idea to script to the screen. Duane Gastant’ Aucoin will provide the perspective of a Tlingit filmmaker, with several films to his credit (including the film My Own Private Lower Post, to be screened at this session entitled Healing through Haa Koosteeyi).
