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EPISODIC | USA | 12 MINUTES | English
Facing The Storm: The Indigenous Response to Climate Change (Episode 1 Mazaska Talks)
Director Mikayla Gingrey
“Facing the Storm: The Indigenous Response to Climate Change”, is an episodic series highlighting Climate Justice leaders in the Indigenous community who have been fighting to protect Mother Earth since time immemorial. This series takes a look at climate change and climate justice from the Native lens by focusing on the cultural, ancestral and communal impact climate change has on Indigenous Peoples. The episode, “Mazaska Talks” explores the rise of the divestment movement in Seattle as part of the strategy to fight the Dakota Access Pipeline. Hear from the co-founders of Mazaska Talks, a Seattle based Indigenous led grassroots organization focused on protecting Indigenous rights, as they discuss the divestment movement as a tool to combat the destruction of sacred sites and the climate crisis.
CAST & CREDITS
Director
Mikayla Gingrey
Producer
Matt Remle, Marya Gingrey
Screenwriter
Mikayla Gingrey
Key Cast
Matt Remle, Rachel Heaton
Directors Bio
Mikayla Gingrey is a filmmaker born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She is a television writer, an alum of the prestigious Television Academy Foundation internship program, a national and international award-winning screenwriter and a creative who will enter this industry as a change maker. She recently wrote her first professional episode of television in collaboration with Glen Mazzara on Beacon 23, a science fiction show airing on MGM+. She worked as the Writers Assistant and Showrunners Assistant on the television series Beacon 23.
At the outset of her writing career she has received the following awards: Austin Film Festival quarter finalist, Female Eye International Film Festival semi-finalist, Winner of the WeScreenplay College writing lab competition, Winner of Best Undergraduate Original Feature at Loyola Marymount University, Winner of the Michael Peters Screenwriting Award at Loyola Marymount University and Black Girl Writes mentorship Initiative semi-finalist.
Mikayla Gingrey is an up and coming writer-producer who is bold in pushing boundaries and telling the stories that reflect, shape and influence society. She is a social justice advocate, a passion driven individual and a person with a powerful narrative to share for the purpose of uplifting community. She uses cinematic storytelling as a tool to bring about social change and progress.
Directors Statement
As a Director, I am motivated to use cinema as a tool for change because it is accessible to the masses while also transcending borders, languages, and races. Cinema, like ideas, can spread and influence at an exponential rate. Cinema plays out on the big screen and the small ones that everyone carries in their hands. One small cinematic clip on a phone can go viral and within mere seconds connect people across the globe. Those millions of people can now unite and create change on the global scale. Moreover, I am a firm believer in using cinema to level the playing field as I desire to create a platform where all stories, traumas, and hopes can be shared equitably for good. I was specifically drawn to Direct and Produce this short film because it is meant to inspire the next generation of climate leaders and give honor and respect to those who have paved the way.
Program Six
Showtimes
Friday, November 15
IN-PERSON
Screening: 6:15pm
Post Screening Guest (s) Mikayla Gingrey (Director), Matt Remle (Producer), Marya Gingrey (Producer) and Matt Remle (Cast).
Once Purchased
your name will be at ‘Will Call’
AMC The Grove 14
189 The Grove Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Parking
At The Theatre
