Skip to main content

Indigenous Films

Pictured: Godfrey “Mikal Okshila (Above Boy)” Benjamin Chipps.
News

Indigenous films make scene at Black Hills festival

By Buffalo’s FireJun 2, 2022
Guarani-Kaiowá leader and activist Alenir Ximendes in the documentary The Wind Blows the Borders. (Photo courtesy of Juan M. Gonzalez-Calcaneo)
Lifestyle

Indigenous Film+ Online

By Indigenous Media InitiativesApr 22, 2022
"Call Me Human/Je m'apelle humain" (2020). Directed by Kim O'bomsawin. (Courtesy photo)
Lifestyle

INDIGENOUS FILM+ ONLINE

By Indigenous Media InitiativesApr 11, 2022
Ammin Acha-ur appears in the short film, "The Headhunter's Daughter," by Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, which won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. (Photo by Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, courtesy of Sundance Institute)
News

Indigenous film takes top honors at Sundance

By Carina DominguezFeb 10, 2022
Indigenous people have always measured and reported what we have collected, grown or hunted. Petroglyphs, pictographs and buffalo hide drawings are all excellent examples of that practice. (Photo by John Fowler via Creative Commons)
Newscasts

Indigenous excellence in politics, film and more

By ICTJan 21, 2022
A still shot from the short documentary, "ᎤᏕᏲᏅ (What They’ve Been Taught)" shows a traditional Cherokee mask. The film examines recipocrity among the Cherokee people as told through a traditional storyteller. The film is an official selection of the Shorts Program at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. (Photo by Taylor Hensel, courtesy of Sundance Institute)
News

Sundance puts spotlight on Indigenous films

By Dan NinhamJan 19, 2022
RESERVATION DOGS “Uncle Brownie” Episode 3 (Airs, Monday, August 16) Pictured: (l-r) Gary Farmer as Uncle Brownie, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai as Bear, Paulina Alexis as Willie Jack, Devery Jacobs as Elora Danan Postoak. CR: Shane Brown/FXCopyright 2021, FX Networks. All rights reserved.
Lifestyle

INDIGENOUS FILM+ ONLINE

By Indigenous Media InitiativesJan 14, 2022
This historic photos shows the original farmhouse at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The house has been saved from demolition and efforts are underway to make it a center where families could go to learn about their ancestors who attended the school and never came home. (Photo courtesy of Carlisle Digital Resource Center)
Lifestyle

Indigenous film+ online 2021

By Indigenous Media InitiativesNov 20, 2021
The comedy-drama film, "Run Woman Run," by Heiltsuk/Mohawk director Zoe Hopkins, is among the featured films at the National Museum of the American Indian's Native Cinema Showcase from Nov. 12-18, 2021. The film describes a single mother's journey to face her path and get healthy by running a marathon. (Photo courtesy of Running Home Productions)
Lifestyle

Indigenous film festivals online 2021

By Indigenous Media InitiativesNov 10, 2021
Elle-Máijá-Tailfeathers and Violet-Nelson portray two Indigenous women in the Array film 'The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open.' Array is the production company founded by director Ava DuVernay. (Photo by Katrin Braggadottir)
Lifestyle

Indigenous film festivals online 2021

By Indigenous Media InitiativesOct 18, 2021
Leanne Ferrer. (Photo courtesy of Aloha for Leanne website)
Obituaries

Hawai’i film champion ‘exuded aloha’

By Kalle BenallieOct 10, 2021
Wildwood, directed by Bretten Hannam (Mi'kmaq)
Lifestyle

#NativeNerd: The profoundly beautiful Indigenous films at TIFF

By Vincent SchillingSep 27, 2021
Volunteers put up orange shirts before a press conference and prayer vigil at the former Muscowequan Indian Residential School, one of the last residential schools to close its doors in Canada in 1997 and the last fully intact residential school still standing in Saskatchewan at Muskowekwan First Nation, Saskatchewan, on Tuesday, June 1, 2021. The vigil was in response to the remains of 215 children recently found at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. (Kayle Neis/The Canadian Press via AP)
Lifestyle

Indigenous Film+ Online and more 2021

By Indigenous Media InitiativesSep 22, 2021
Bird Runningwater - Sundance Institute
News

N. Bird Runningwater: ‘A fond farewell to Sundance’

By Vincent SchillingSep 22, 2021
Mato Wayuhi, Oglala Lakota, created the original music for the hit TV show "Reservation Dogs." (Photo by Dennis Elliott)
News

‘Make it more Mato!' The music of ‘Reservation Dogs’

By Jourdan Bennett-BegayeSep 20, 2021
Flags from Canada's First Nations fly at the Assembly of First Nations, which represents hundreds of thousands of Indigenous people in Canada from more than 600 First Nations communities.  (Photo courtesy of Assembly of First Nations)
News

The Wrap: Canada’s Indigenous vote

By ICTSep 16, 2021
The film, "A Christmas In Ochopee," written and directed by Montana Cypress and released in 2019, features Cypress, left, in a lead role, along with actors Lavonne Andrews and Andrew Roa. (Photo courtesy of Montana Cypress)
News

Miccosukee filmmaker breaks out in Hollywood

By Sandra Hale SchulmanSep 16, 2021
#NativeNerd - Sundance 11 Feature Films
Lifestyle

#NativeNerd: 11 Sundance feature film reviews

By Vincent SchillingFeb 4, 2021