What We’re Working On
MY NAME IS NOT AMY: After nearly four years in the making, our short film MY NAME IS NOT AMY (19min) premiered at the Denver Film Festival in November 2024. We are currently coordinating various community and impact screening events for both virtual and live audiences. Visit our website www.MyNameIsNotAmy.com for more information.
LAND BACK: A series of short films and a larger independent feature film based on Rick William’s work as the Truth, Restoration, and Education Commission (TREC) of Colorado. The reports provide a comprehensive examination of the extensive damage endured by Native peoples due to forced relocation, illegal seizure of land, violations of human rights, acts of violence, warfare, deceptive practices, and other illicit actions perpetrated by the state of Colorado, its citizens, and the US government and federal agents over the past 170 years. This collection of films is exploring what reconciliation and healing look like through a dynamic constellation of movements across Colorado and led by Native artists, activists, and youth who are boldly reclaiming their creative, cultural, and narrative sovereignty.
Herbalist, artifact medium, and urban shaman, Monticue Connally.
DIVINATION (working title): In this experimental short film-in-progress, our close friend and herbalist, artifact medium, and urban shaman, Monticue Connally, reflects on growing up different than his family and friends in his tight knit Denver community.
FOR THE PEOPLE: A short film supported by the Colorado Creative Industries and National Endowment for the Arts Folk and Traditional Arts Grant that follows four generations of the Yellow Horse family as the Rocky Mountain Indigenous Dancers and doing their cross-cultural healing work throughout the region.
6-year old Sage Yellowhorse Martinez with the Rocky Mountain Indigenous Dancers warming up for a dance performance at The Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, CO.
Other projects in the works include a collaborative photography workshop for Native youth in the Denver area funded by the RedLine INSITE Fund with support from Creative Nations; and a new round of assignments and workshops for USAID based on the 2023 Story Collaborative work we did in the Philippines, Peru, and Madagascar.