Native American Heritage Month 2025

Nov, 28, 2025

This Native American Heritage Month, increase your literacy by engaging in works by these Film Fatales members.

Ivey-Camille Manybeads Tso is an award-winning queer Navajo filmmaker. Her first feature, Powerlands, has screened internationally and won several festival awards including the The 2022 Rigoberta Menchú Grand Prize. She is currently at work on her next feature, She Breathes.

Powerlands, 2022

Native Hawaiian filmmaker Erin Lau has dedicated her life to creating stories for her community, exploring empathy, redemption, and legacy. Her films have screened at over 50 festivals worldwide.

Rescue: Hi-Surf, 2024
Inheritance, 2022

Leya Hale comes from the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Diné Nations. She is a multiple regional Emmy award winning documentary producer for Twin Cities PBS.

The Electric Indian, 2024
Bring Her Home, 2022

Diane Fraher writes and directs narrative feature films about contemporary Native Americans. Her first feature-length narrative film, The Reawakening, was the first feature film written and directed by a Native woman and wholly produced by Native people.

The Heart Stays, 2024
The Reawakening, 2004

Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu is a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) teacher, cultural practitioner, and community leader. Kumu Hina is currently a cultural advisor and leader in many community affairs and civic activities.

Kapaemahu, 2020
Leitis in Waiting, 2018
Kumu Hina, 201