• Little Chief

    Directed by Erica Tremblay
    USA | 12 minutes |

Against the landscape of a rural reservation in Oklahoma, the lives of a Native woman and nine-year-old boy intersect over the course of a school day.

In competition for the Local Jury Award

film synopsis

film details

Director: Erica Tremblay
Producers: Deidre Backs, Kasia Chmielinski, Erica Tremblay
Screenwriter: Erica Tremblay
Cinematographers: Marshall Stief
Editor: Robert Wilson
Music: Garth Stevenson
Cast: Lily Gladstone, Julian Ballentyne
Country: USA
Language: English
Year: 2019
Running Time: 12 minutes
Primary Company: Homespun Pictures
Contact Email: erica.tremblay@gmail.com

director biography

Erica Tremblay is a Native American documentary filmmaker and activist currently studying her Indigenous language at Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve in Ontario. Her projects have screened at 60+ film festivals and her work has been featured on PBS, CNN and the Independent Film Channel. Erica’s films explore topics including violence against Indigenous women, restorative justice and issues impacting the two-spirit community. She has worked with many grassroots organizations, including the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, the Alaska Native Women’s Coalition and the Monument Quilt Project. Erica was recently honored as a 40 Under 40 Native American and received a 2018 Sundance Native Film Lab Fellowship.

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