Miles T. Red Corn (Osage and Caddo) is an emerging self-taught director and writer from Oklahoma City. Growing up in a family of artists and writers, Red Corn has wanted to be a filmmaker since before he can remember. He began making films on VHS at age 6, and for a brief 4-year stint in elementary school, he led a film criticism YouTube page. Red Corn grew up in and continues to be immersed in his tribes’ traditions, getting put into the Osage In.Lon.Shka ceremony when he was barely 3 and as an active participant in the Caddo dances and the Caddo Fall Festival organized by his grandmother.
Red Corn’s Tsi-Co (grandfather in Osage) inspired him from an early age to pursue writing as an outlet of self expression, and is one of his biggest influences, as well as his grandma Jeri Red Corn who reinvigorated the dormant art of Caddo Pottery. In his writing, Red Corn traverses Native identity and postcolonialism through intimate character exploration and interpersonal dynamics, portraying fables, tribal history, adaptations of family members’ experiences, and reflections of his own identity as an Indigenous person. Red Corn uses the cinematic language and structure of genre like film noir, westerns, and chanbara (samurai films), to subvert expectations and dissect his themes through a Native lens, recontextualizing Native characters and identity in conversation with cinematic Hollywood stereotypes. Red Corn’s love of film reaches from the golden age of Hollywood to the New Hollywood movement of the 70s, all the way from silent filmmakers like Abel Gance to Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.
Red Corn is currently in post-production of his first short film as writer and director of “Two Brothers” which follows two Osage boys at the turn of the century trying to make their way back home—physically and spiritually—after escaping from a boarding school. Red Corn realized “Two Brothers” with grant support from Vision Maker Media as a Creative Shorts Fellow under mentor Nathan Raglin. Red Corn’s experience in the film industry includes working on Killers of the Flower Moon as a personal assistant to legendary publicist Larry Kaplin and working with Assistant Director Jeremy Marks on the upcoming Josh
Safdie/A24 film Marty Supreme. He has also worked as a production assistant on a Netflix documentary, as a publicity assistant, and a cast member on Reservation Dogs, gaining a range of experiences on various film sets and bringing his love for cinema in everything he does