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.

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

Mel Damski

Advisor | Producer and Director for shows like Psych, Aley McBeal, Mash

Michael Petryni

Advisor | Writer for shows like Moonlighting and Matlock

Sheila Larken-Goodwin

Advisor | Hollywood Actress playing Scully's mom in the XFiles and shows like The Incredible Hulk

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