Author: Ian Skorodin

Her main medium being 2D digital animation, Emalisa Tejada enjoys practicing in this medium to bring to life stories. Her style mainly depicts semi-realistic cartoons in character proportions, colors, and backgrounds. Due to her desire to relate stories to individuals’ lives and provoking the mind to ponder, she focuses mostly on characters in their design… Read more »

Jade Puga and Richard Montes are a writing, producing and filmmaking team. The duo are FOX Writers Incubator 2023 DRAMA fellows. Jade is a NAMA TV Writers fellow and Richard is a NAMA Features Writers fellow. They formed Safada Y Sano Productions and have directed, written and produced the feature films Aguruphobia, which had a… Read more »

Jocelyn Garcia is from Santa Rosa California. She has always been a passionate artist and started out mostly painting in traditional mediums such as acrylic, oil and watercolors. However storytelling has always been at the heart of her work and led her into animation at San Jose State University. It was here she would major… Read more »

Amari was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona and is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Painting and Drawing at Arizona State University. Her art has mostly consisted of her interests such as shows, movies and games or themes relating to Navajo culture. She creates works in a usually semi realistic or anime style. Amari’s main… Read more »

Born and raised in an Alaskan village of 500, Carlee Malemute (Athabascan) is a graduate from USC’s Screenwriting MFA Program and a participant in the 2016 Native American TV Writers Lab and the 2018 Native American Features Lab. She co-wrote three movies for Lifetime, was staffed on Hallmark’s Good Witch and Netflix’s Spirit Rangers, and… Read more »

John Timothy (Muscogee/Creek)  is a LA-based writer and comedian. He most recently wrote for several seasons of Ghosts on CBS, and previously wrote for Leverage: Redemption on Amazon. In short, if you have a project about funny ghosts who do heists, give him a call. He was a participant in the 2019 Native American Media… Read more »

William Jehu Garroutte is an enrolled Citizen of Cherokee Nation. He had an Army brat childhood and a midwestern adolescence in a town best known for its cattle slaughterhouses. William didn’t go to college, and learned how to write by reading stacks of scripts in the WGA library. Along the way, he worked a wide… Read more »

Jade Puga is an indigenous writer, producer and filmmaker. She is a FOX Writers Incubator 2023 fellow and a NAMA TV Writers fellow. Jade graduated from USC’s School of Theater. She formed Safada Y Sano Productions with writing and filmmaking partner Richard Montes. The two have developed with major studios and production companies for film,… Read more »

After starting as an animation writer on Nickelodeon’s Penguins of Madagascar, and later co-creating the live-action sitcom Bella & The Bulldogs, Gabe listened to the advice of the life-sized Yoda in his office and followed his big geeky heart – leading him to the writing staff of CW’s The Flash. During his 100+ episode tenure,… Read more »

Tammy “TS” Botkin has been producing documentaries for ten years and directing for five. Her feature directorial debut is the Better Angels Lavine Fellow documentary, A Long March, which began broadcast nationally in April 2024 via PBS member stations, and she is Director/Writer/Producer for the American Masters Renegades Daniel K. Inouye episode which began PBS… Read more »