Movies: Vision Maker Media

  • 2019
    Words from a Bear

    Words from a Bear (2019)

    Words from a Bear

    02019HD

    A visual journey into the mind and soul of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Navarro Scott Momaday, relating each written line to his unique Native American experience representing ancestry, place, and oral history....

    Words from a Bear
  • 2020
    Osage Murders

    Osage Murders (2020)

    Osage Murders

    02020HD

    A historical documentary focusing on the events that occurred on the Osage reservation in the 1920s. In the early 1900s death was all too common in the oil boom town of Fairfax on the Osage reservation. Osage people were dying at alarming rates. Loca...

    Osage Murders
  • 2022
    Seeds

    Seeds (2022)

    Seeds

    02022HD

    Without parents to guide them, two girls reflect on the love their parents modeled and the grief of their loss....

    Seeds
  • 2021
    Daughter of a Lost Bird

    Daughter of a Lost Bird (2021)

    Daughter of a Lost Bird

    02021HD

    What does blood have to do with identity? Kendra Mylnechuk, an adult Native adoptee, born in 1980 at the cusp of the enactment of the Indian Child Welfare Act, is on a journey to reconnect with her birth family and discover her Lummi heritage....

    Daughter of a Lost Bird
  • 2020
    Without a Whisper - Konnón:kwe

    Without a Whisper - Konnón:kwe (2020)

    Without a Whisper - Konnón:kwe

    02020HD

    "Without a Whisper" is the untold story of how Indigenous women influenced the early suffragists in their fight for freedom and equality. Mohawk Clan Mother Louise Herne and Professor Sally Roesch Wagner shake the foundation of the established histor...

    Without a Whisper - Konnón:kwe
  • 2021
    Almost an Island

    Almost an Island (2021)

    Almost an Island

    02021HD

    A cinematic portrait of the Goodwins, an Inupiat family living above the Arctic Circle in Kotzebue, Alaska. Through observing three generations of one family over four years, the documentary explores what it means to be indigenous in the dramatically...

    Almost an Island
  • 2016
    Badger Creek

    Badger Creek (2016)

    Badger Creek

    02016HD

    Badger Creek is a portrait of Native resilience as seen through a year in the life of three generations of a Blackfeet family living on the rez in Montana. The Mombergs are a loving, sober family who run a successful ranch, live a traditional worldvi...

    Badger Creek
  • 2019
    ATTLA

    ATTLA (2019)

    ATTLA

    02019HD

    Spanning his fifty-year dogsled racing career, ATTLA explores the life and persona of George Attla, from his childhood as a TB survivor in the Alaskan interior, to his rise as ten-time world champion and mythical state hero, to a village elder resolu...

    ATTLA
  • 2015
    My Louisiana Love

    My Louisiana Love (2015)

    My Louisiana Love

    02015HD

    My Louisiana Love follows a young Native American woman, Monique Verdin, as she returns to Southeast Louisiana to reunite with her Houma Indian family. But soon she sees that her people’s traditional way of life- fishing, trapping, and hunting these ...

    My Louisiana Love
  • 1969
    The Bears on Pine Ridge

    The Bears on Pine Ridge (1969)

    The Bears on Pine Ridge

    01969HD

    The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has declared a “State of Emergency”, after an outbreak of youth suicides has devastated the community. Due to a lack of Federal assistance, residents have taken prevention efforts into their own hands. A tenacious Og...

    The Bears on Pine Ridge
  • 1969
    Older Than the Crown

    Older Than the Crown (1969)

    Older Than the Crown

    01969HD

    Older Than The Crown follows the trial of Sinixt tribal member Rick Desautel who in 2010 was charged with hunting as a non-resident and without a proper permit in Canada. Rick harvested an elk on the ancestral land of the Sinixt people in Vallican, B...

    Older Than the Crown
  • 1969
    Waterbuster

    Waterbuster (1969)

    Waterbuster

    01969HD

    The universal struggle we all have in 21st century America, to find a sense of place, community and home. Official Selection at the Tribeca Film Festival....

    Waterbuster