The Pitch is Back

Four filmmakers with ‘works in progress’ will pitch their films to industry insiders, producers, and investors, aiming to secure investment. Each filmmaker will have 15 minutes to present their project to film distribution companies and funders.

Filmmakers to be announced soon

AMC

Success Stories

RUNNING EAGLE

Director Konrad Tho Fiedler 

A young American Indian girl, on the run from the North Dakota oil patch, is determined to get back to her home in Blackfeet country, Montana.

BLOOD MEMORY

Director Drew Nicholas

A Story of Removal and Return 

END OF THE LINE: THE WOMEN OF STANDING

Director Shannon Kring

A group of Indigenous women risks their lives to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which jeopardizes their land, water and entire way of life.

11 DAYS THE SEARCH MISTY UPHAM

Director Charles Upham 

A documentary film trailer about the search for Misty Upham. She went missing on October 5, 2014 and was found dead 11 days later by friends and family. The police did not help with the search and rescue and they refused to investigate her unsolved murder. She was one of a 1000+ missing Native American women that they never search for.

 

LAST RIDE

Director / Producer Neta Rhyne

A Direct Descendant of The “Trail Of Tears”, Cherokee woman’s personal journey that informs and reflects into the world of horse slaughter and her goal of creating awareness to the spirit of the Horse through multi-cultural participation and co-creation through all the ARTS.

SECOND SUNRISE

Director/Executive Producer Joanelle Romero

A case of plutonium brings a Navajo nightwalker (vampire) and a no- nonsense FBI agent together. While deadly shapeshifters stalk them, Lee Nez and his beautiful partner must stop the power-mad Nazi who created him.

 

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