Author: Ian Skorodin

Tristin Calderon has loved acting and singing for most of his life, performing in both school and community theatre productions. He enjoys being on a stage and has been performing for community theatre for several years, where his first show was The Descendants. His list of performances include High School Musical, Into the Woods (Rapunzel’s… Read more »

Sloane Primiano (Choctaw) grew up in Los Angeles, California, and attended high school at Ramon C. Cortines School for Visual and Performing Arts. While there, she won Best Animated Short at the High Schools 2023 Grand Arts Film Festival. Her stop-motion short  film, Kachinas in Space, premiered at the 2023 LA Skins Fest – A… Read more »

Samara Lopez-Jones (she/her), a member of the Choctaw Nation who grew up in the Bay Area, moved to Los Angeles in 2021. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Film, TV, & Media Studies from Cal State LA and has since established herself as an award-winning filmmaker with a talent for both scripted and unscripted work…. Read more »

Tamara Stratton grew up in Oklahoma. Her love of storytelling started early in life and she has been a voracious reader since she encountered “A Wrinkle In Time” in the third grade. A chronic daydreamer, she would lose herself in her own imaginative adventures for hours, to the concern of her parents and the annoyance… Read more »

Tony Magaña (Western Shoshone, Chilula, and Mexican-American) is a Reno, Nevada-born filmmaker, writer, and every-once-in-awhile Stand-Up comedian currently residing in Las Vegas. His mother works as an elementary grade teacher and his father is a mail carrier. After a very brief stint in Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz, Tony’s attention turned to film studies… Read more »

Noah Rose Keeling is an LA-based emerging writer. She is an exceptional playwright-turned-screenwriter, a proud trans woman, and a member of the Choctaw Nation. Noah is currently in the room for Julie Plec’s new Amazon show, WE WERE LIARS. Her drama pilot, in the vein of Six Feet Under, sold to Lionsgate Television with Bob Greenblatt producing and… Read more »

Doane Tulugaq Avery is currently co-writing an unannounced queer western horror film for Blumhouse Productions and most recently co-wrote the forthcoming film MOTHERTRUCKER with Joey Soloway and Taylor Blackburn. Doane is one of three participants selected for the Native American Media Alliance’s 2021 Showrunner Program and one of four participants in the 2021 Sundance Native… Read more »

Amanda WouldGo (Secwepemc and Wampanoag) is a storyteller whose narrative craft is steeped in the rich traditions of indigenous myths and fantasy. Bearing the Secwepemc word for “story,” slexéy̓em, tattooed on her wrist, she believes that stories have the power to both entertain and heal communities. Her current project draws inspiration from seminal works like… Read more »

Alex is a skilled graphic designer and animator hailing from the Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico. Currently, he holds the position of Media Specialist at the Pueblo of Santa Ana, where he utilizes his creative talents to design captivating visuals for community events and initiatives. With a degree in Graphic Design from Fort Lewis College,… Read more »

Luis Angel Rossy also known as Machete Sound was born in Victorville, a city in the High Desert of Southern California in the fall of 1988. His parents welcomed him into a family with two older sisters. Named after his father, a United States Marine who was born in Puerto Rico and raised in New… Read more »