First Nations Film and Video Festival Inc continues its online panel discussion series with “The Other 51%: Native American Women Directors” taking place on Sunday, October 14th, 2021 at 6:00pm CDT (7pm EDT, 5pm MDT). Panelists include

MICHELLE HERNANDEZ (Wiyot/Latina)
Director: The Little Deer Killer, Douk, The Bartow Project “Untitled” (Still in Production)
Michelle Hernandez is a Wiyot and Latina filmmaker. She grew up on the Table Bluff Reservation, where she found her love for filmmaking. She has a Masters in Film and Electronic Media at American University in Washington, D.C. and a B.A. at Humboldt State in both Film and Native American Studies. Much of her work focuses on the importance of culture, traditions, and identity, as well as dealing with Indegenous subjects. With her work she gives voice to stories that aren’t often told. She is the co-founder of Sugarbush Hill Productions, which she currently runs with her partner, Richie Wenzler. Her latest works include Douk and The Bartow Project.

RAMONA EMERSON (Diné)
Director: The Backroad, The Last Trek, A Return Home, Hidden Talents, Opal, The Mayors of Shiprock, The Protector, Crossing the Line
Ramona Emerson is a Diné writer and filmmaker originally from Tohatchi, New Mexico. She received her degree in Media Arts in 1997 from the University of New Mexico and her MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) in 2015 from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is an Emmy nominee, a Sundance Native Lab Fellow, a Time-Warner Storyteller Fellow, a Tribeca All-Access Grantee and a WGBH Producer Fellow. Ramona just finished her first novel, Shutter, which will be published with SOHO Books in 2022.

PAMELA PETERS (Diné)
Directed: Legacy of Exiled NDNZ (2014), Indian Alley (2021)
Pamela J. Peters is a Diné multimedia documentarian from the Navajo Reservation where she was born and raised. Her first clan is Tachii’nii (Red Running into the Water clan), which she uses to identify her photography. Pamela’s work captures not only still images documenting people, cultures, and environments; she also incorporates storytelling with video digital capturing that is completed with a unique and distinctive creative style. Her creative lens explores the history and identity of her participants, which she calls Indigenous Realism, which often places a nostalgic aesthetic in her photographic images. She incorporates black and white photography to express her photography series: Legacy of Exiled NDNZ that explores the 1950s Indian Relocation program; and Real NDNZ Re-Take Hollywood, that evocates studio-style portraits of Hollywood glamour of the 1940s and 1950s.

SARAH HANNIGAN (Cherokee)
Director: Light
Sarah grew up on-set and backstage, and has been involved in the arts ever since. Her directorial work has been seen in festivals such as LA SkinsFest, Māoriland Film Festival, Phoenix Film Festival, and the Green Bay Film Festival. Outside of writing and directing her own films, she focuses on documentary and narrative cinematography, with work recently shown at SXSW, the Austin Film Festival, the Texas Filmmaker’s Showcase, and seen on PBS.

UPDATE: Tammy Lynn Elder is unable to participate in Sunday’s event.
TAMMY LYNN ELDER (Ojibwe)
Director/Producer: Project Eagle Feather)
Tammy Lynne, an Ojibwa Native, from the Nippissing First Nations, is an aboriginal Filmmaker/Performer that is currently overseeing the distributing, marketing and post production of her 1st large project entitled STOLEN GENERATIONS, This documentation of unheard stories introduces the continuing legacy of aboriginal story telling and will be used to heavily market the feature project on community levels. She worked along side producer/performer Ryan Black(actor Dance Me Outside, The Rez) and Jesse Green(Producer/Owner Strong Front Studios) to complete a demo of the project. She finished her first run at training sexually exploited/aboriginal Youth at Risk in the film and broadcast industry last year. As well as being a filmmaker, Tammy Lynne is an actor, stunt performer and activist.

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We hope to see you there.