FACEBOOK LIVE STREAM TODAY
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Join Executive Director Shirley K. Sneve and Assistant Director Rebekka Schlichting for a
Facebook live stream
today at
2:00 PM CT
for a conversation about the new projects! Comments and questions encouraged!
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Vision Maker Media Announces 2019 Public Media Fund Recipients
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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, 6/18/2019
- Vision Maker Media (VMM) Announces support for nine new American Indian and Alaska Native projects for public media. The projects were selected as part of VMM's mission to increase documentaries by and about Native Americans in Public Broadcasting. With funding from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting (CPB), Vision Maker Media's Public Media Content Fund awards support to projects with a Native American theme and significant Native Involvement.
"Our goal is to increase the diversity of voices available to PBS viewers," said Executive Director Shirley K. Sneve (Rosebud Sioux).
Since 1990, filmmakers have been invited to submit proposals in various stages of their film - including research and development, to production, to post-production/completion and new media. All proposals are reviewed by a group of Public Television professionals, station programmers, independent filmmakers, educators and executives from Indigenous organizations.
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(Untitled) Twin Cities PBS
Documentary
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(Untitled)
is an evocative documentary exploring the sexual exploitation of Native women today in the context of the repeated colonization of Native people’s lands and bodies. The film will travel between the policies and treatment of Native women in the past, to the contemporary legal tensions and efforts to decolonize Native women’s bodies and spirits today.
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Ancestors in the Archives
Documentary
Directors:
Adam Khalil
(Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians),
Zach Khalil
(Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians)
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In the sterile storage of museums and archives, our ancestor’s remains struggle to find their way home. The film follows eleven indigenous repatriation specialists fighting to rebury and return ancestors from settler-colonial libraries, archives, and museums.
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When They Were Here
Documentary
Director of Photography: Jessica Jane Hart
Editor: Zane Clampett (Yankton Sioux/ Ihankton- wan Nation)
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Indigenous women and girls face rates of violence unlike any other group. The stories of these women and girls go beyond the statistics and figures used to define them. They were mothers; they were grandmas; they were daughters; they were loved
When They Were Here.
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Indigi-Genius
Web Series
Executive Producer: Kevin McDonald
Director/Producer: Anthony Rodriguez
Writer/Producer: Antonia Gonzales (Navajo)
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A PBS digital series that will highlight ingenuity and expertise within indigenous communities from the past and present. Welcome to
Indigi-Genius
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Clans
Documentary
Cinematographer: Kahlil Hudson (Tlinqt)
Editor/Composer: Jeff Barnaby (MigMaq)
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Clans
explores relationships among the Na-Dene, the largest Indigenous linguistic family in North America, through the origin and migration stories of the Dene in the Canadian Subarctic and the Diné (Navajo) in the American Southwest.
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Indian Country Today (IDC) TV
Weekly News Broadcast
Associate Editor of IDC: Vincent Schilling (St. Regis Mohawk)
Reporter for IDC: Jourdan Bennett-Begaye
(Diné)
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A national weekly news TV program produced by Indian Country Today in Washington, DC and Phoenix, AZ.
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Indigeneity Learning Media
Web Series
Producer: Cara Romero (Chemehuevi)
Producer/Cinematographer: Morgan Howard's (Tlingit)
Cinematographer/Editor: Dylan McLaughlin
(Diné)
Cinematographer
/Editor: Jade Begay
(Diné)
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This "Indigenous Studies" virtual classroom, hosted by two well-known Native media personalities combines truth, traditional knowledge, humor, animation, and personality to present important educational themes in Indigenous Studies. The media will be accompanied by lesson plans and assessments that will support teachers to integrate Native American subject matter and knowledge across a range of subjects already being taught in high-school curriculum.
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Sisters Gone: Missing & Murdered in Alaska
Documentary
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Sisters Gone: Missing & Murdered in Alaska
investigates the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Alaska, whose rates of violence are higher than any other racial, ethnic, or gender group in the United States. Through the lens of the family members left behind, Native American filmmaker Erica Tremblay reveals the impact and continuation of centuries of trauma navigated by Native Alaskan communities as a result of industry, isolation, lack of law enforcement, and racism.
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Searching for Sequoyah
Documentary
Producer/Director: James Fortier (Ojibway)
Producer/Writer: LeAnne Howe (Choctaw)
Co-Producer/Host: Joshua Nelson (Cherokee)
Production Manager: Julianna Brannum (Comanche)
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Searching for Sequoyah
is the first documentary feature to chronicle the legendary accomplishments and mysterious death of the famed Cherokee renaissance man, Sequoyah. From Tuskegee, Tennessee to Mexico,
Searching for Sequoyah
takes viewers on a journey retracing his final quest, and unlocking the mysteries of his life and death.
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Vision Maker Media (VMM) empowers and engages Native People to share stories. We envision a world changed and healed by understanding Native stories and the public conversations they generate. We work with Native producers to develop, produce and distribute programs for all media. VMM supports training to increase the number of American Indians and Alaska Natives producing quality public broadcasting programs. A key strategy for this work is the development of strong partnerships with tribal nations, Indian organizations and Native communities. Reaching the general public and the global market is the ultimate goal for the dissemination of Native produced media that shares Native perspectives with the world.
With funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), Vision Maker Media, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) empowers and engages Native People to share stories. For more information visit visionmakermedia.org.
Media Contact:
Alyssa Ranard
Marketing & Communication Specialist
aranard@netad.unl.edu
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