Cheyenne Gordon is a Hualapai writer, director, and photographer from the Grand Canyon in northwest Arizona, now based in Los Angeles. After a decade in front of the camera, including the lead in Sooyii, a feature told almost entirely in the Blackfeet language, opposite Stormee Kipp (Prey), she moved behind it. Her photography appears in a full spread in the September issue of Cowboys and Indians. She holds an associate degree in creative writing and is developing three scripts. White and Delightsome, a horror short set on the Salt River Pima reservation, is her first film as writer, director, and cinematographer.
She left college in 2012 to act and model full-time and has spent the last decade in Los Angeles working on advertising campaigns and film sets, most recently as the lead in Sooyii, a feature set in 1700s America that is told almost entirely through visuals, with its dialogue in the Blackfeet language, opposite Stormee Kipp (Prey). Over that time she moved behind the camera as a photographer. Her photography is featured in a full spread in the September issue of Cowboys and Indians magazine.
She holds an associate degree in creative writing with a focus on screenwriting and is currently writing three scripts: White and Delightsome, a horror short about a Mormon woman who keeps showing up at two orphaned Native brothers’ house with food; EMOtional, a coming-of-age dark comedy set in Mesa, Arizona; and Mabel, a period drama about her grandmother. She writes from inside the places and the people she grew up with, and she shoots her own work. White and Delightsome would be her first film as writer, director, and cinematographer.