In the Center: Indigenous Women Filmmakers

Описание: Join us for a conversation between Bird Runningwater, Director of the Sundance Institute Indigenous Program, and filmmakers Erica Tremblay and Shaandiin Tome as they discuss the current state of filmmaking amid the pandemic, and their experiences as artists coming up through the Indigenous Program.

Video transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JZTi...

Bios:
Bird Runningwater
Bird Runningwater belongs to the Cheyenne and Mescalero Apache Tribal Nations, and grew up on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico. Since 2001 he has guided the Sundance Institute’s investment in Native American and Indigenous filmmakers while building a global Indigenous film community. He has nurtured a new generation of filmmakers whose films have put Indigenous Cinema into the global marketplace. Based in Los Angeles, California, Runningwater serves as the Director of Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program, and co-leads the Institute’s Outreach and Inclusion work across all programs.

Erica Tremblay
Erica is an award-winning filmmaker and digital strategist with over 10 years experience across interactive and video content. Her projects have screened at 60+ film festivals and her work has been featured on PBS, CNN and IFC. Erica’s films explore topics including violence against Indigenous women, restorative justice and issues impacting the two-spirit community. She has worked with many grassroots organizations including the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, the Alaska Native Women’s Coalition and Wica Agli. In 2016, Erica was awarded a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship and in 2018, Erica was a Sundance Native Film Lab Fellow. Her film Little Chief premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was chosen by IndieWire as a "top ten must-see short film of the festival". Erica was recently honored as a 40 Under 40 Native American. She currently lives in Ithaca, NY where she is studying her Indigenous language.

Shaandiin Tome
Shaandiin Tome is a filmmaker and director from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Tome was put on the map as a writer/director with her breakout short film, Mud (Hashtł’ishnii), which was selected and premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Her film went worldwide, and received awards from Montana Independent Film Festival, Presence Autochtone (Montreal), LA Skins Fest, and New Filmmakers Los Angeles. In her upcoming feature, Dibé, she was a participant at the Sundance Creative Producers Summit 2019 and Sundance Talent Forum 2020. At the beginning of 2020, she was selected as a finalist for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Her current work spans documentary, commercial, and narrative work with National Geographic, Al Jazeera, Vice, Levi’s, and Merrell. Her unique perspective allows her to capture other trailblazers in the indigenous community. She lives in Albuquerque, aiming to bring resonating imagery in convergence with story, illustrating her perspective as a Diné woman.