Documentary films rarely break even but the educational value far outweighs the cost.
That’s why, for financing, we are going the non-profit route. The Pickford Film Center is our fiscal sponsor so your financial backing can be tax deductible.
Cherokee Nation
Sponsor | Film Crew | Advisor
Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Sponsor | Advisor
Children of the Setting Sun
Film Crew | Advisor
The Respect Diversity Foundation
Sponsor | Advisor
Suquamish Tribe
Sponsor | Advisor
Assoc. of Tribal Archives, Libraries & Museums
Sponsor | Advisor
Dee Ayles
Financial Backer | Advisor
Film Crew
Julia Clifford
Producer | Director | Owner of Clifford Creations
Bob Ridgley
Co-Producer | Director of Photography | Editor
Jennifer Loren
Native American Filmmaker | Adviser | Cherokee Nation Film Office & Member of the Cherokee Nation
Darrell Hillaire
Native American Filmmaker | Adviser | Lummi Nation
Cherokee Nation
Sponsor | Film Crew | Advisor
Dee Ayles
Financial Backer | Advisor
Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Sponsor | Advisor
Children of the Setting Sun
Film Crew | Advisor
Suquamish Tribe
Sponsor | Advisor
The Respect Diversity Foundation
Sponsor | Advisor
Assoc. of Tribal Archives, Libraries & Museums
Sponsor | Advisor
People to Interview
Jewell James
Interview | Wood carver, Lawyer, Activists from the Lummi Nation
James Floyd
Interview | Past Chief of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Mark Macarro
Interview | Chairman of the Penchanga Band of Luiseno Indians
Joy Harjo
Interview | Poet and Musician from the Muscogee Creek Nation
Chuck Hoskin Jr.
Interview | Chief of the Cherokee Nation
John W. Franklin
Interview | Executive Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Hank Klibanoff
Interview | Author of the The Race Beat, a book about The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation.
Judge Raquel Montoya-Lewis
Interview | Associate Justice of the Washington Supreme Court and a member of the Pueblo of Isleta and decendent from the Pueblo of Laguna
Oren Lyons
Interview | Native American Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy
Patti Gobin
Interview | Historian and Grandmother from the Tulalip Tribe
Hannibal B. Johnson
Interview | Lawyer, Academic and Author of Black Wall Street, a book about the Tulsa Race Massacre
Rabbi Olivier Benhaim
Interview | Rabbi of the Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue in Seattle
Crystal Echo Hawk
Interview | Executive Director of Illuminative
Michael Korenblit
Interview | Executive Director for The Respect Diversity Foundation
Heather Rae
Interview | Native American Filmmaker
Father Patrick Twohy
Interview | Priest for the Pacific Northwest Native American community.
Bill Anoatubby
Interview | Governor of the Chickasaw Nation
Clayton Duncan
Interview | Grandson of Lucy Moore of the Pomo Tribe
Dr. Charles Gourd
Interview | Executive Director of the Cherokee Cultural Heritage Center
Dee Simon
Interview | Executive Director of Holocaust Center for Humanity in Seattle
Isabel Wilkerson
Interview | Author of The Warmth of Other Suns, a book about the epic story of America's great migration
Jay Rosenbaum
Interview | Rabbi of the Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation in Seattle
Walter Echo Hawk
Interview | Speaker, Author and Attorney from the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, well versed in the Constitutional Law and Treaty agreements.
Melissa Harjo-Moffer
Interview | Archivist, Linguistics (Grandmother) of the Muscogee Creek Nation
Jefferson Keel
Interview | Lieutenant Governor Emeritis from the Chickasaw Nation
Beau Garreau
Interview | Filmmaker and Photographer from the Lakota Tribe
Help from Hollywood
Star Power (Our Wish List)
These folks are not secured. We show them to you so you know the caliber of film we want to make. Securing them for this film depends on our funding and their interest/availability.
Rick Steves
Influencer | Author | Activist | I saw Rick speak at the American Library Association conference and part of his talk included the history of books and Hitler's burning of the books. Powerful! Our hope is to interview Rick Steves on that subject for our film.
Ken Burns
Interview | Narrator | Influencer | Considered best Documentarian, Ken Burn's Masterclass helped us shape this film. We hope to inlist Ken Burns' help in narrating the Civil War section of the film.
Alfre Woodard
Narration | Award winning actress. Our hope is to have Alfre narrate segments of the film.
Jennifer Lawrence
Narrator | Actress | Activist | This film is for our young and a lot of them LOVE this actress (me included - I first saw her in Winter's Bone - a phenomenal film). We hope to enlist Jennifer to do a portion of the Narration for the film.
Malcolm Gladwell
Influencer | Author | PodCaster | (I love this guy's brain!) Malcolm Gladwell's storytelling style on his podcast "Revisionist History" inspired the way we tell our story. Check it out! revisionisthistory.com
Advisors
Dee Ayles
Financial Backer | Advisor
Jerrid Miller
Advisor | Archivist for the Cherokee Nation at the Cherokee Cultural Heritage Center
Mary Jo Maute
Developing Curriculum and Advisor | Eduction Director Emeritus at the Whatcom Museum of History and Art
John Beaver
Advisor | Curator for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Past employee of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian
Henry Cagey
Advisor | Councilman for the Lummi Nation
Harvey Scwartz
Writing Editor | Advisor | Writer
Tessa Campbell
Advisor | Curator for the Hibulb Cultural Center for the Tulalip Tribe
Glen Berry
Advisor | Founder and Director Emeritus for the Northwest Film School
Barbara Brotherton
Native American Art curator for the Seattle Art Museum
John Haworth
Advisor | Executive Director Emeritus at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
Daniel Weiner
Advisor | Rabbi at Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Seattle
Kristen Parsons & Lance Rosen
Advisors | Lance is a retired Hollywood Actor and Entertainment Lawyer