I have Cat Power hair now.

Volume One: my 16mm first film, circa 2004

short movie

Our first day of the film program they gave us point and shoot digital cameras and told us to make a 2 minute movie in one night...here's what I did:

ghosts and cowgirls, she and him

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I thought you'd like this one

what i'm doing with my summer

I finished my shoot today. The shortest yet at 11.5 hours. I never want to work with child actors again.

Here's our press release:


News Release
For Immediate Distribution
June 30, 2008

Contact: Marcella Ernest
Summer TV and Film Workshop Coordinator
505.424.5796 (ph)
505.424.3030 (fax)
mernest@iaia.edu


IAIA and Disney/ABC Summer Television and
Film Workshop Screening July 25th
Celebratory Dinner and Presentation Offered to Public Free of Charge

Santa Fe, NM –The public is invited to attend a special screening for the Institute of American Indian Arts and Disney/ABC Summer Television and Film Workshop on July 25, 2008 beginning at 6 p.m. The event is a culmination of six weeks of hard work by fifteen Native American students from across the country. A complementary dinner with Native cuisine will be offered, followed by a first-time viewing of several original films. Disney/ABC executives will be on hand to discuss the unique partnership between organizations and students will attend to discuss their work. The dinner and screening will take place at the Library and Technology Center on the Institute of American Indian Arts Campus, 83 Avan Nu Po Road, Santa Fe, NM. The event is free of charge and everyone is welcome.

Now in its fifth year, the Institute of American Indian Arts and Disney/ABC Summer Television and Film Workshop is a unique program offered to American Indians who are interested in the film industry. Its goal is to target students who are passionate about writing and/or producing television and film and who are considering careers in Hollywood and beyond. Television executives assist with the design and implementation of projects, and academic credit is offered at the end of the course. This year, the workshop focused on two tracks, a writer’s workshop and a production workshop.

J. Carlos Peinado (Hidatsa/Mandan), Chair of the New Media Arts Department says, “Entering the fifth year of our Disney/ABC Television and Film Workshop we are pleased to have established long term opportunities for our students in both the writing and production tracks of this course. This year promises some of our best work yet as we shift the emphasis towards a more streamlined approach to the underlying fundamentals and skills associated with quality production.”

For more details about this event please call Marcella Ernest at 505.424.5796 or email mernest@iaia.edu

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IAIA Mission:
To empower creativity and leadership in Native arts and cultures
through higher education, lifelong learning and outreach

Talking Stick Film Festival

The first annual Talking Stick Film Festival just ended and it was so amazing! Go Carin for making this all possible and I'm totally entering whatever comes out of this IAIA summer program into next years festival. These are a few (trailers) of the incredible films I saw:

Older than America by Georgina Lightning



Imprint by Michael Linn



Turquoise Rose by Holt Hamliton



Sikumi by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean



I saw a lot more and they were all pretty awesome. It was just really inspiring to be around all those Native filmmakers who are paving the way for all us upcoming Native filmmakers. I tip my hat to everyone who can do it.

Dude Vision

Here's a short (30 min) movie I saw tonight at the Talking Stick Film Festival
It's totally funny.

Where you been Little Shell?

1) My Div 3 show was AMAZING! Everyone loved it, professors and friends and family were all raving and excited to see where it goes! My birthday party/closing reception was totally awesome also. It began as a stressful day, but the evening of magic and love made up for it. Thank you everyone who came, wrote in my book, supported me and the other two brilliant artists I got to show with...it really made it all worth while. I finally got a chance to read through my guest-book and it was extremely touching to read all those encouragements. Thanks again to everyone who helped me pull it off. (For some reason the interweb, in all it's communicational glory, isn't letting me post pictures, but don't worry, I will post them soon!)

Also...
It's been a long time since I updated. Suffice it to say that, aside from my fabulous senior show, amazing final meeting with my faculty committee, bbqs, friends, and family visiting, I graduated from college, moved away from New England via a quick road trip to Austin in 3 days, dropped Trey off at his new city and apartment (Austin), spent a week there, drove to Santa Fe and started the Summer Film Workshop at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). whew! That's all why I haven't updated my inter-web life in a while.
At the summer workshop I'll be learning the more conventional way of making movies. So far we've been doing technical workshops, learning the Panasonic DVX100B, the Advanta-Jib, dollies, etc. as well as picking screenplays to make into movies by the end of the 6 weeks. We'll each (7 people in the program) be directing our own shorts and working on each other's crews. We already did some photo assignments and made a 2 minute video (which I'll post on here soon). All that already and it this is only the 4th day! So stay tuned back in because I'll start updating pretty regularly again.

Thanks a million times over to everyone who loves me. I was so sad to leave Hampshire and Massachusetts when it really came down to it, but I know we'll all do great things in the world beyond. Please keep in touch. I love you.