“Write for Your Communities, Don’t Write for the White Man”: Inside the Sundance Native Lab

Story by Julian Sancton

Image from The Hollywood Reporter

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Sundance's Native Lab empowers Indigenous filmmakers to tell their own stories and reclaim narrative sovereignty in Hollywood's shifting landscape.

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Sundance's Native Lab has served as a launching pad for nearly every major Indigenous creative in Hollywood, including the teams behind 'Reservation Dogs', 'Echo', and 'Dark Winds'.
The Lab's focus on narrative features and TV pilots reflects the real possibilities now available to Native artists, as they navigate an industry with unprecedented appetite for their stories while preserving their cultural authenticity.

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Sterlin Harjo, Taika Waititi, Sydney Freeland, Jana Schmieding, Chris Eyre, Charine Pilar Gonzales, Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, Lindsay McIntyre, Patrick Brice, Kishori Rajan, Tai Leclaire, Adam Piron, Sundance Institute, Sundance Native Lab, FX, Marvel, Peacock, AMC, Warner Bros., Reservation Dogs, Echo, Rutherford Falls, Dark Winds, Smoke Signals, Two Cars, One Night, NDN Time, The Prince and the Pauper

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