Author: Ian Skorodin

Joshua is a Diné (Navajo) comedian, actor, and writer based in Denver. He performs at clubs and festivals all over the world including Netflix is a Joke Fest, SF Sketchfest and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Joshua was selected for the Mayors Award for Excellence in Arts and Culture in 2023 and was named one of… Read more »

Jenna Monroe is a Diné Producer and Choreographic Director in the SF Bay Area and Central Coast. She has been producing documentary/reality television for the past 4 years. Her work for the Emmy award winning Life Below Zero franchise can be seen on National Geographic and Disney+. In stage production, she has garnered awards from the city and county of San Francisco. Her choreography has been performed at SAFEHouse Arts, National Dance Week, Dance… Read more »

Evan L. Chouteau is a Mississippi based filmmaker whose career spans scripted and unscripted television. He grew up in Jackson and is now based in Oxford. He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 2017 with a major in Anthropology and a minor in Film Production, then began freelancing across the Southeast to build experience…. Read more »

Alana Tiikpuu is a non-binary Nez Perce and Navajo writer and director from Lapwai, Idaho. They are a 2019 graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts, where they majored in Cinematic Arts & Technology. Alana has gone on to become a fellow of the LA Skins Fest Animation lab, the Native Arts & Culture… Read more »

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… Read more »

Lucas Mendevil is a recent graduate of Emerson College who has earned his Master of Fine Arts degree through the Writing for Film & Television program. With over four years experience educated in creative writing for film, television, marketing and technical writing, he writes for feature films with focuses in historical fiction, drama and thriller…. Read more »

Isabella Dionne Madrigal (Cahuilla/Turtle Mountain Chippewa) is a writer/director/actor. A 2025 Sundance Native Lab Fellow, Isabella’s work centers on empowering Indigenous communities through the arts. Isabella co-leads the Luke Madrigal Indigenous Storytelling Nonprofit, an organization that empowers Indigenous ways of knowing through performance art. She is a recipient of the Center for Cultural Power’s Culture… Read more »

As a Norman, Oklahoma native, Breyden Boyd has been working towards cultivating a creative space in his home state for years. As a child, Breyden was often drawing and designing superheroes that he could relate to. Somewhere along the way in his adolescence, he took a break and found other hobbies as he entered his… Read more »

Richard R. DeVore is a Native American screenwriter from Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico. Born and raised on a reservation, storytelling has been a cornerstone of his life since childhood. Influenced by the voices of his grandmother, mother, and the elders in his community, Richard learned early on the power of stories to preserve culture, heal… Read more »

Marleah Makpiaq LaBelle is an aspiring screenplay writer of Sugpiaq, Iñupiaq, Dena’ina, and Filipina descent and is a tribal member of the Native Village of Port Graham. In Iñupiaq, Makpiaq, means “to turn pages,” and was named after her paternal grandmother, Clara Makpiaq LaBelle (Hensley). Makpiaq was raised between the urban landscape in Anchorage, Alaska… Read more »