CREATIVE TEAM
Director/Producer
Gwendolen Cates is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer based in NYC.
Composer and Consultant
Pura Fé (Tuscarora/Taino) is a world-renowned musical artist.
Producer
Robert J. Miller (Eastern Shawnee)
Consulting Producers
Gary Farmer (Cayuga Nation, Wolf Clan)
N.Bruce Duthu (Houma)
Consulting Editors
Jillian Moul ACE
Andre Constantini
Director/Producer/DP
Gwendolen Cates is a photographer and filmmaker whose work has screened on PBS, at festivals, colleges and universities, museums, and the UN. Her award-winning documentaries include Water Flowing Together, which chronicles the life of Navajo/Puerto Rican principal ballet dancer with the New York City Ballet (Independent Lens 2008); The Good Mind (2016) about Onondaga leaders fighting for return of stolen lands; and We Are Unarmed (2020) a fresh look at the Standing Rock resistance to the DAPL pipeline. Cates is the daughter of a linguist fluent in Diné Bizaad, the Navajo language, who first brought her to Indian Country as a child. She studied cultural anthropology at the University of Chicago.
www.gwendolencates.com
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