ACADEMY MEMBERS
2011
Wes Studi. Cherokee
Academy Branch: Actors
Red Nation Celebration Institute Connection: Pow Wow Highway, 2003 Festival; Older Than America, 2008 Festival
2016
Joanelle Romero. Apache, Navajo, Southern Ute, Paiute Nations
Academy Branch: Associates
Red Nation Celebration Institute Connection: Founder and President of Festival 1995; American Holocaust: When Its All Over I’ll Still Be Indian, 2003 Festival; Pow Wow Highway, 2003 Festival; The Girl Called Hatter Fox, 2003 Festival; The Life, Blood and Rhythm of Randy Castillo, 2014 Festival
Heather Rae. Cherokee
Academy Branch: Producers
Red Nation Celebration Institute Connection: First Circle, 2010 Festival; Young Lakota, 2012 Festival; Frozen River, 2018 Festival; Trudell 2014 Festival; Among Ravens, 2014 Festival
Adam Beach. Saulteaux
Academy Branch: Actors
Red Nation Celebration Institute Connection: Older Than America, 2008 Festival
2017
Gil Birmingham. Comanche
Academy Branch: Actors
Red Nation Celebration Institute Connection: Dreamkeeper, 2003 Festival; The Twilight Saga: New Moon, 2009 Festival; Shouting Secrets, 2011 Festival; Crooked Arrows, 2012 Festival; Wind River, 2017 Festival
2018
Irene Bedard. Iñupiat, Yup’ik, Inuit, Cree, Métis
Academy Branch: Actors
Red Nation Celebration Institute Connection: Songs My Brothers Taught Me, 2015 Festival
Tantoo Cardinal. Métis
Academy Branch: Actors
Red Nation Celebration Institute Connection: Dreamkeeper, 2003 Festival; Shouting Secrets, 2011 Festival; Older Then America, 2008 Festival; From Above/Chasing Shakespeare, 2013 Festival; Wind River, 2017 Festival
Q’orianka Kilcher. Quechua-Huachipaeri
Academy Branch: Actors
Red Nation Celebration Institute Connection: Running Deer, 2013 Festival; Shouting Secrets, 2011 Festival
Danis Goulet. Cree, Métis
Academy Branch: Short Films and Feature Animation
Rachel Perkins. Arrernte /Kalkadoon Nations
Academy Branch: Directors
Warwick Thornton. Kaytej Nation
Category: Cinematographers