Native American Writers
by NavajoFilmmaker | created - 27 Aug 2015 | updated - 25 Mar 2021 | PublicThese are Native Writers who are WGA members or Caucus members.
1. Jason Gavin
Writer | Echo
Jason Gavin is known for Echo (2023), Friday Night Lights (2006) and Dark Winds (2022).
2. Sierra Teller Ornelas
Producer | Superstore
Sierra Teller Ornelas is known for Superstore (2015), Rutherford Falls (2021) and Splitting Up Together (2018).
3. Lucas Brown Eyes
Writer | Reservations
Lucas Brown Eyes is an Oglala Lakota writer. His family moved to California so he could study film and television at Orange County High School of the Arts. He would then get a film degree from USC. In 2014 he was accepted into the ABC Disney Writing Program and soon started writing for shows like ...
4. Marilyn Thomas
Producer | Shi-Shi-Etko
Marilyn Thomas is an award winning screenwriter and producer. After graduating Vancouver Film School's intensive Writing for Film and Television Program she was awarded the BC Film Story Department Internship for Da Vinci's Inquest. She returned the next year and also had the opportunity to ...
5. Nanobah Becker
Director | Conversion
Nanobah Becker is known for Conversion (2006), Laura Ortman: I Lost My Shadow (2011) and Flat (2005).
6. Steven Paul Judd
Writer | Search for the World's Best Indian Taco
Steven Paul Judd is known for Search for the World's Best Indian Taco (2010), Dark Winds (2022) and Echo (2023).
7. Sheila Barnes
Producer | Replica Rising
Sheila Barnes is known for Replica Rising, Death Factory (2014) and Platypus Man (1995).
8. Mary Ann Barnes
Writer | Last Man Standing
Mary Ann Barnes is known for Last Man Standing (2011), Army of One (2020) and Caleb's Crossing.
9. Kelly Lynne D'Angelo
Writer | Final Space
Kelly Lynne D'Angelo is a Native Haudenosaunee comedy, musical, animation, and fantasy writer based out of Los Angeles. In her non-existent free time, Kelly also writes stage musicals and plays Dungeons & Dragons professionally (she kids you not). Recent writing credits include MIRACLE WORKERS (TBS...
10. Greg Sarris
Writer | Grand Avenue
Greg Sarris is known for Grand Avenue (1996), Joan Baez I Am a Noise (2023) and California and the American Dream (2005).
11. Tazbah Chavez
Producer | Reservation Dogs
Tazbah Chavez is known for Reservation Dogs (2021), Rutherford Falls (2021) and Your Name Isn't English (2018).
12. Ian Skorodin
Director | Tushka
Ian Skorodin graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and began his directing career with an award winning feature film, entitled TUSHKA, based on the murder of a Native American activist's family. After premiering at Sundance in 1998, TUSHKA went on to win Best Feature at the ...
13. Sterlin Harjo
Writer | Reservation Dogs
Sterlin Harjo is known for Reservation Dogs (2021), Barking Water (2009) and Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People (2015).
14. Georgina Lightning
Actress | Older Than America
Georgina Lightning brings a long track record of creative experience in the film industry as an actor, producer, director and acting coach on such projects as: Dreamkeepers, Backroads, Johnny Greyeyes, Christmas in the Clouds, Tecumseh, the Oath and Smoke Signals among countless others. Lightning ...
15. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Actress | The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers is a writer, director, producer and actor. She is a member of the Kainai First Nation (Blood Tribe, Blackfoot Confederacy) as well as Sámi from Norway.
Her short documentary Bihttos was included in the 2015 TIFF Top Ten Shorts and was commissioned for the imagineNATIVE ...
16. James Lujan
Producer | Liminality
James Lujan is known for Liminality (2008), Four Quarters (2014) and He Can't Be Caught (2007).
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