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Indigenous-made films, new fellows, and the grand opening of the film festival all give a gracious nod to Indigenous inclusion at Sundance 2021

Sundance Institute Announces Marja Bål Nango As 2021 Merata Mita Fellow Marja Bål Nango is a film director, screenwriter and producer.by BWW News Desk Sundance Institute today announced Marja Bål Nango (Sámi) as the 2021 recipient of the Merata Mita Fellowship, an annual fellowship named in honor of the late Māori filmmaker Merata Mita (1942-2010). The announcement was delivered today at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival's Native Forum Celebration by N. Bird Runningwater (Cheyenne/Mescalero Apache), director of the Sundance Institute's Indigenous Program and Diversity, Equity and Inclusio...

A young Minnesota Native filmmaker's 'Wild' ride to Sundance After years of writing and dreaming, a Minnesota filmmaker will compete at the Sundance Film Festival this month.  January 15, 2021 — 4:34pm Text size Copy shortlink: Lynn Lukkas couldn't have predicted that the shy, 6-foot-5 student who took film classes from her years ago at the University of Minnesota would compete in this month's Sundance Film Festival. But she knew there was something special about Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. "He is very quiet, so he wasn't a student...

Credit: PDAC. For the first time in its 89-year history, The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada’s (PDAC) Convention – the world’s premier mineral exploration and mining industry event – will go virtual this year on March 8-11. “We are committed to providing a first-class experience to participants—wherever they are in the world,” says Felix Lee, PDAC’s president. “We are excited to provide the high-quality programming attendees have come to expect by offering a fully virtual experience to participants for the first time and are encouraged by the prospect of reach...

ABC's 'Big Sky' has drawn claims of exclusion and misrepresentation. Activists and leaders in the industry say that Hollywood has significant outreach work to do: "There's not parity in terms of the Native community getting an equal amount of support with what the other communities are getting."  On Dec. 2, Indigenous groups protesting the lack of Native and Indigenous female representation on the ABC procedural Big Sky sent a message that they won't be backing down anytime soon. Not long after the show's executive producers responded for the first time to the weeks-long protest — saying...