Public Media Fund Projects Awarded

PUBLIC MEDIA INDIGENOUS STORIES

We are happy to announce our final (5) five Public Media Fund Award Recipients for 2024 funding.

PUBLIC MEDIA FUND AWARD RECIPIENTS

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JUSTICE DELAYED

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FILMMAKER

Mary Katzke

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The American justice system promises a timely resolution for crimes but is failing our Alaska Native families who wait years, and even decades for resolution within our system.

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Supporting POST-PRODUCTION/COMPLETION

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MORE THAN WATER

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FILMMAKER

Cindi Finneran

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The Kiamichi River has sustained local communities, including the Caddo and the Choctaw, since time immemorial. Uncertainty lingers as the State of Oklahoma threatens to divert its life-giving waters to other communities. 

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Supporting PRODUCTION

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UNCOVERING BOARDING SCHOOLS: STORIES OF RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE

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FILMMAKER

Kami Horton

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Present-day efforts by Klamath tribal members to uncover the difficult and often hidden history of Indigenous children forced into government-sanctioned boarding schools.

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Supporting PRODUCTION

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RED POWER: THE CLYDE WARRIOR STORY

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FILMMAKER

Michael J. Kirk

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The influential life of Clyde Warrior, a trailblazer in reawakening the Indigenous mind and American Indian activism who founded RED POWER.

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Supporting POST-PRODUCTION/COMPLETION

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WHEN THEY WERE HERE

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FILMMAKERS

Ivan MacDonald (Blackfeet)

Ivy MacDonald (Blackfeet)

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A documentary about the missing and murdered Indigenous women, and girls’ crisis within the Blackfeet Reservation in the state of Montana.

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Supporting POST-PRODUCTION/COMPLETION

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Together we are vision makers

Empowering Native Storytellers

Vision Maker Media. The Premiere Source of Indigenous Knowledge through film and media.  

We work with VMM funded producers to develop, produce, and distribute programs for public media. VMM supports training to increase the number of Native Americans and Alaska Natives producing films.