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creative shorts fellowship award recipients

We are happy to announce our Creative Shorts Fellowship Award Recipients from our pool of applicants. 

The Creative Shorts Fellowship unleashes the harness and barriers of Native storytelling. We nurture and encourage new and creative, innovative storytelling and mentor emerging Native filmmakers in creating film stories in a uniquely imaginative, inventive, and artistically experimental way.

The Next Generation of Vision Makers 

Fellow: Deidre Peaches (Navajo/Diné)

holding hands

Through a supernatural event, a young Diné woman is visited by her deceased grandmother, who reminds her of the strength of her ancestors she carries with her. 

Mentor: Ramona Emerson (Navajo)

Fellow: Rochelle Smallwood (Tlingit/Aztec)

on the boat

A group of Indigenous intergenerational women embark on a transformative journey of healing through sharing collective wisdom, stories and ceremonies as they reclaim the art of sewing, regalia making and beading. 

Mentor: Alexis Anoruk Sallee (Inupiaq/Mexican)

Fellow: Jerrick Hope-Lang (Tlingit/Tsimshian)

clan house revitalization

Through the act of land back, we are seeking to recreate Tlingit governance through traditional practices of land management. 

Mentor: Alexis Anoruk Sallee (Inupiaq/Mexican)

Empowering Native Storytellers 

Vision Maker Media. The Premiere Source of Indigenous Knowledge through film and media.  

We work with VMM funded producers to develop, produce, and distribute programs for public media. VMM supports training to increase the number of Native Americans and Alaska Natives producing films.
 
Learn more at https://visionmakermedia.org/about-us/ 
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Walt Pourier

Vice Chair

Walt is Oglala Lakota and created the logo for Urban Rez. He is Creative Director, owner of Nakota Designs Advertising Designs and Graphics. Executive Director of the Stronghold Society nonprofit dedicated to instilling hope and supporting youth movements through Live Life Call To Action Campaigns.

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lynn palmanteer-holder

Lynn Palmanteer-Holder, an Indigenous plateau woman of North Central Washington and member of eight of twelve Tribes of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Lynn recently retired as inaugural Director of Tribal Government Affairs for Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges, the state’s oversight agency of 34 CTCs.  She is a highly accomplished professional that spans over 40 years. She is an experienced educator that has a demonstrated history across K12, post-secondary & higher education as a teacher, school counselor, superintendent, researcher, and professor. Also, she has diverse experience as an entrepreneur, Tribal leader and administrator. She is skilled in curriculum and program development, facilitating government to government relationships that led to formal partnerships between state institutions and Tribes developing custom programs. Lynn has served on many boards and has been recognized for various statewide, and national awards. She has several scholarly publications and has done various conference presentations and speaking engagements, at the local, national and international level. Lynn holds a Ph.C. (ABD) in Social Welfare Policy from University of Washington. She earned her M.Ed., with a concentration in counseling psychology from Washington State University and B.Ed., in K12 Education from Eastern Washington University. Lynn is a wife of 49 years, a mother of three adult professional children, granny of 10 and great granny to two. Lynn and her husband are high school sweethearts, and together enjoy time with their 15+ two-legged blessings.