Reel Indigenous

This week in reruns, we go way back to our first season and two rock stars of television: Jana Schmieding and Sierra Teller Ornelas. We had tons of fun visiting with these two talented ladies. Enjoy!

Enjoy this 2023 episode of our favorite guest: Wes Studi, while you're heading to his favorite place: Santa Fe. Can't wait to see all the pics from Santa Fe Indian Market!

We wrap up our deadCenter coverage with an interview from Cherokee Film's Brettlyn Bevenue. She shares how they are building Native filmmaking on their reservation through different training programs and production incentives. Maaman Rezaee talks about her short Evanescence, and we visit with filmmaker Robert Mendoza.

Join Jeffrey Palmer, Kiowa citizen and filmmaker, as he talks about his short film Ghosts, starring Lane Factor, Kaden Earwood, and Gus Palmer. Be sure to watch it online at the PBS Short Film Festival! Our Native Creatives just keep bringing the hits! Follow us on this podcast station, and leave your thoughts on our socials.

Noetta and Angela celebrate the recent Emmy nominations for Reservation Dogs, True Detective: Night Country, and Under the Bridge. Lulululu! Who will win? We go thru the different categories and make our best predictions.

Lily H Tuzroyluke (Inupiaq/L'ingit/Nisg'a) writes a real page-turner! Full of action, loss, insane whalers and more, her debut novel Sivulliq has been winning awards left and right. She joins Angela for a peek into her Arctic world and a mother's pursuit to save her daughter. Check our LinkTree for more info on our weekly guests and let us know your favorite summer read on our socials.

Okie filmmakers Loren Waters and Cheyenne Scarborough are rising stars in the film industry. We get to hear about their projects at deadCenter Film Fest and learn more about what drives them.

New friend of the pod Amelia Winger-Bearskin gets personal about artificial intelligence and new technology to share the stories she grew up hearing at her grandmother's knee. A citizen of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, her installation I Would LIke to be Midnight/I Would Like to be Sky examines who owns the sky.

In this episode, we chat it up live during Litfest in Tulsa, OK. with the talented Mona Susan Power, Esq (Standing Rock Sioux). Her newest novel, "A Council of Dolls" has recently dropped and so we get blessed with her reading and discussing her writing, as well as giving us some to As to our Qs. And this episodes guest star is Dr. Lindsey Claire Smith, the goddess of Litfest, who introduc...

Donick Cary is a legacy fan of the Washington Football team. One day, son Otis asked him about the name. That conversation turned into the documentary Hail to the Breadsticks, winner of the Best Oklahoma Documentary at deadCenter Film Festival. Donick shares his journey through Indian Country as he discusses the name with some of our favs, including Graham Greene, Sterlin Harjo, Joey Clift, Steven...

Fancy Dance will be at a theater near you soon! To celebrate, and to recover after deadCenter 2024, we present our interview with writer/director Erica Tremblay in 2023.

We continue our Host Interviews this week with Monica Brain, former journalist, current broadband advocate and raccoon enthusiast. Our wide-ranging discussion covers the hands, morals and ethics of trash pandas, the Apes movies, Yoda, and the importance of digital equity across Indian Country.

Paris Burris, shorts programmer for deadCenter Film Fest, gives Matt and Angela the scoop on films and parties coming up June 6-9 in Oklahoma City. This is a great chance to get your passes, or volunteer, to network with some of the industry's movers and shakers!

Author Weyodi OldBear joins us this week to talk about all of the writing projects she is working, including Coyote and Crow RPG, five novels, a graphic novel, and more. She talks about the intricacies of world-building for Natives in the future, and why we are so enthralled with apocalyptic stories.

Girl-on-girl violence, racism, great soundtrack, chokers...the Hulu series Under the Bridge has the 90s all over it. Our hosts discuss the first episodes of the series starring Lily Gladstone and Riley Keogh and how very Canadian it all seems.

We had a blast at IPX this year! Noetta got some fun interviews, and Angela moderated the Reservation Dogs panel. We all shopped and marveled at the Cosplayers, who get better every year!

In this episode, we turn the microphone on Matt "Lowdown" Barse as he talks about his new short film, " Distance " and his journey of how he got to becoming a filmmaker. Check out his film, " Distance " on the film festival circuits. It will be playing: Sunday May 4 at 6:45 PM at the Barebones Film Festival in Muscogee, OK. Go check it out! Catch Matt on the various socials...

Chris Cote, Osage language consultant for Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, joins our hosts to talk Oscars!

Na Na Ping joins guest host Adrienne Lalli Hills and Angela to discuss proposed changes to the Indian Arts and Crafts Act by the BIA. Reel Indigenous does not take policy positions. The views expressed are those of the individuals.

In this episode, we get to talking about the final 3 episodes of TRUE DETECTIVES: NIGHT COUNTRY, and how Aunties regulate. Angela, Matt, Sunrise and tvli join in on the conversation. Monica chopped the episode together Whoever showed up, produced. The music is "AAAAYYYY!!!!" by the Chahta vba isht Taloa cocophony orchestra consort find us on the socials and follow us @Reel_Indigenous https...

The Original Indigenous Comic Con is back in Oklahoma for 2024 and we have the deets! Get your fav cosplay ready, gather the family and join the Reservation Dogs, Eugene Brave Rock, the OKC Ghostbusters, Huncles Yancey Red Corn and Brent Greenwood, and more April 12-14.

In this episode, we chat it up with Nico Albert and Kyle Williams, the dynamic duo of the metal group, Medicine Horse. They share their music and advice and all the great things that they do. Thanks for listening. And after you listen, go out and buy their self-titled debut album, Medicine Horse and the Cherokee compilation album, Anvdvnelisgi. Also, for those of you who are interested in Burning...

It took us a minute. Sunrise got sick, then was back on the festival circuit, but we finally got Matt and Sunrise to sit down for a bit and talk about the Sundance Film Festival and the few Indigenous movies they got to see. They also talk about the short film, "Kicking the Clouds". A beautiful movie that you can watch here: http://www.skyhopinka.com/kicking-the-clouds also here is the lin...

A bonus Oscars episode for your listening pleasure. Just four filmies discussing random categories of the upcoming awards ceremony and their thoughts on some of the nominees.

All of that Choctaw spirit we saw and loved in Echo? We can trace it back to a podcast fav: Peshawn Bread. What can't they do? Direct, produce, model, they do it all and we are here for it! Peshawn shares the lengths they went to during the shoot, specifically the stickball game and powwow, to make our Choctaw friends and family part of the now-canon origan of Maya Lopez in the Marvel MCU. Get...