Bird Runningwater heads the Sundance Initiative, which helps produce new works by both Native Americans and Indigenous people worldwide. He talks about Native American fillmmakers and the Sundance ...

“Hollywood is realizing that the ‘I’ in BIPOC stands for ‘indigenous,’” Sundance Native film program leader Bird Runningwater says . Diane Haithman. June 29, 2021 @ 6:00 AM.

Native Forum set at Sundance. NEW YORK -- Four features and two short films from American Indian and Indigenous filmmakers will be showcased at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival's 13th annual Native ...

Sundance Institute said in a statement that fellows in the Native program will engage in one-on-one feedback sessions with advisors, as well as round-table discussions.

The Native Lab's stance couldn't be clearer: "Write for your communities, don't write for the white man," program coordinator Katie Arthurs told the cohort. "They can figure it out - they have ...

A question that often comes to mind for many underrepresented filmmakers is whether or how the reality of systemic racial trauma and abuse shows up in narratives centering on their people. Native ...

Sundance echoed the sentiment, saying, “What we need are people who will maintain their Native identity in the face of rules and regulations that have been enacted to keep us oppressed ...

Syracuse native Zackary Drucker took home an award at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. “The Stroll,” co-directed by Drucker and Kristen Lovell, won Sundance’s U.S. Documentary Special Jury ...

Four features and two short films from American Indian and Indigenous filmmakers will be showcased at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival's 13th annual Native Forum. The forum features artist panels ...