Mitch Lewis is a storyteller and multimedia creator whose work bridges cinematic imagination with lived experience. With a background in film production, digital media, military service, and leadership within the Chickasaw Nation, Lewis offers studios a voice shaped by discipline, cultural insight, and a drive for emotionally resonant storytelling. Lewis earned a degree in Video… Read more »

C.J. Caughman is an award-winning author and storyteller from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Raised in the small town of Coweta, Oklahoma, he developed a lifelong fascination with storytelling through books, films, and television. That early passion eventually led him to pursue writing as a career. C.J. studied English – Creative… Read more »

Ripley Barnes is a born and raised California kid of African American and Osage-Kiowa descent on her mother’s side and Choctaw on her father’s. She comes from a family of movie buffs, as her parents named her after the incredible heroine, Ellen Ripley, from the ALIEN  franchise. She enjoys balancing multiple genres in storytelling. More… Read more »

Rachel Baldwin is a Native American writer, improviser and comedian based in Los Angeles. A proud member of the Brothertown Indian Nation, she brings bold, irreverent and comedic perspectives to the stage and screen. She has trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade, WE Improv, The World’s Greatest Improv School, and Native Voices. She has produced… Read more »

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 »