Multimedia Links
Below is a list of Native owned and operated multimedia organizations, including: production studios, distributors, talent agencies and television networks by and for Native people. Some of these organizations are listed in multiple categories. If you would like to add your Native owned and operated multimedia organization to our website, please contact our webmaster using this form.
Educational
Aboriginal Perspectives (Educational - documentaries for students and teachers)
Aboriginal Perspectives is a site for high school and upper elementary students and teachers that features National Film Board of Canada documentaries by and about Canada's Aboriginal peoples.
Longhouse Media/Native Lens (Production and Education)
The mission of Longhouse Media is to catalyze Indigenous people and communities to use media as a tool for self-expression, cultural preservation, and social change. Longhouse Media draws from traditional and modern forms of artistic expression, storytelling, teaching and inquiry, based in the technologies of today. Native Lens is a program of LONGHOUSE MEDIA, which supports the growth and expression of Indigenous youth through digital media making.
Native American Television, Inc. (Television and Education)
Native American Television, Inc. is the first nonprofit Native American multimedia broadcasting network and technology training news organization located in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
Native Film (Education and Training)
An online publication of Intertribal Entertainment, a division of Southern California Indian Center, Inc.
Shenandoah Films (Education and Distribution)
Shenandoah Films is a Native Owned Distributor of Videos and DVDs produced by, about and for North American Native Peoples. We currently represent over 90 American Indian, Alaska Native & Canadian First Nations filmmakers and their films. We also carry many Non-Indian produced films with content pertaining to Native Cultures.
Film Festivals
The American Indian Film Institute
The American Indian Film Institute (AIFI) is a non-profit media arts center founded in 1979 to foster understanding of the culture, traditions and issues of contemporary Native Americans.
American Indian Film Festival
Bellevue Community College's American Indian Film Festival honors the college's commitment to cultural pluralism by introducing both the campus and area communities to works created by and with artists from the First Peoples and First Nations.
First Nations/First Features
First Nations\First Features celebrates an emergent world cinema in filmmaking, the most recent innovation in indigenous storytelling. The directors of these award-winning films draw viewers into alternative cultural worlds through their compelling narratives and distinctive aesthetics.
First Nations Film and Video Festival
The First Nations Film and Video Festival (FNFVF) advocates for and celebrates the works of Native American film and video that break racial stereotypes and promotes awareness of contemporary Native American issues and society.
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
In recognition of the power of film to educate and galvanize a broad constituency of concerned citizens, Human Rights Watch decided to create the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. Human Rights Watch's International Film Festival has become a leading venue for distinguished fiction, documentary and animated films and videos with a distinctive human rights theme.
Information Resource
The Brown Pages
The Brown Pages website contains a database of M�ori, Pacific and indigenous peoples, who wish to be part of an indigenous network and aims to strengthen, develop and promote those peoples in their creative fields. These fields cover Print/Publishing, TV/Film/Radio, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Multimedia, Music and Industry Support Services.
Native Networks
In 2001 the NMAI has launched the Native Networks Website to welcome you to the field of Native media throughout the Americas. The site provides information about new productions and media makers, current areas of special interest and accomplishments in the field.
Native Public Media
Native Public Media is distinguished by its commitment to community voices, open discourse and public service, this is an important time to bring its voice to Washington and to key stakeholders to ensure that new and evolving policies take into account the national need for Native-owned noncommercial community media to promote civic participation and an engaged democracy.
NativeVue
Our mission is to cultivate an interest in Native performing arts by featuring North America's most innovative Indigenous filmmakers, musicians, actors and media entrepreneurs.
Production/Distribution
First Nations Films (Production and Distribution)
First Nations Films through Motion Visual creates award-winning television Aboriginal documentary films and videos for, by and about First Nations people. Our exclusive native programs are distributed to schools, universities, libraries, organizations and other groups and institutions.
First Nation Initiative (Production and Distribution)
We are not-for-profit organization focused on film and video production and distribution for and by First Nations people. We are based in the heart of Anishinawbe territory on the North Shore of Lake Superior in the city of Thunder Bay, Northwestern Ontario, Canada. We aim to provide skill development and employment opportunities for First Nations youth.
Harmy Films (Production)
We aren't afraid of getting burned. That tough demeanor has made us here at Harmy Films what we are today - the internationally-ignored but friendly filmmakers from Wichita, KS. You might have heard of us. No? Well, that's too bad. 'Cause we make movies. Great movies. Well, our moms like them, anyway.
Kifaru Productions (Production and Distribution)
Kifaru Productions has been producing documentaries on contemporary Native American issues since 1990. Our programs have garnered both educational and film industry awards and raves from reviewers as diverse as International Variety and The Washington Post.
Longhouse Media/Native Lens (Production and Education)
The mission of Longhouse Media is to catalyze Indigenous people and communities to use media as a tool for self-expression, cultural preservation, and social change. Longhouse Media draws from traditional and modern forms of artistic expression, storytelling, teaching and inquiry, based in the technologies of today. Native Lens is a program of LONGHOUSE MEDIA, which supports the growth and expression of Indigenous youth through digital media making.
Morgan Howard Productions (Production and Marketing)
Morgan Howard Productions is a full service visual communications company specializing in communicating for Alaska Native Corporations and Tribal businesses.
Mushkeg Media, Inc. (Production and Distribution)
Mushkeg Media Inc. is a ten year old production company specializing in films and videos about the Native experience. Films which deal with contemporary issues facing Canada's First Nations, their environment, activities, traditions and their struggle for economic and political autonomy.
Native American Public Telecommunications (Production and Distribution)
Native American Public Telecommunications supports the creation, promotion and distribution of Native public media.
Rich-Heape Films, Inc. (Production and Distribution)
Rich-Heape Films, Inc. was founded in 1994 to inform, educate and encourage awareness of Native Peoples, and to preserve the history and culture of the American Indian. Headquartered in Dallas, Rich-Heape Films specializes in film, video, high definition and multimedia production from initial concept to final product.
Sacred Land Film Project (Production and Distribution)
Earth Island Institute's Sacred Land Film Project produces a variety of media and educational materials - films, videos, DVDs, articles, photographs, school curricula materials and Web site content - to deepen public understanding of sacred places, indigenous cultures and environmental justice.
Shenandoah Films (Education and Distribution)
Shenandoah Films is a Native Owned Distributor of Videos and DVDs produced by, about and for North American Native Peoples. We currently represent over 90 American Indian, Alaska Native & Canadian First Nations filmmakers and their films. We also carry many Non-Indian produced films with content pertaining to Native Cultures.
Tijer Lily Co (Production)
Tiger Lily Co is a dynamic Native American Arts and Entertainment Company owned and operated by Tara J. Ryan, a Chickasaw/Choctaw entrepreneur with seven years of experience specializing in and dedicated to innovative, cutting edge strategy with a positive, respectful approach to the business.
Turtle Island Productions (Production)
From creating "The Big Idea" to developing a workable production plan that brings it to life, Turtle Island Productions offers an imaginative stream of ideas together with seasoned skills in creating, writing, producing, and directing media communications.
Urban Rez Productions (Production)
URBAN REZ PRODUCTIONS is a documentary and entertainment production team. The company was formed in early 1999. Our goal and mission with Urban Rez Productions is to foster the growth and development of aboriginal television and entertainment professionals. Our method is to train, educate and mentor individuals who demonstrate motivation and inspiration.
VisionMaker Video (Distribution)
VisionMaker Video (VMV) is a service of Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT) whose mission is to share Native stories with the world by supporting the creation, promotion and distribution of Native public media.
Talent Agency
Agency Vibe
Agency Vibe is a comprehensive Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander talent agency that actively promotes and seeks work for its artists locally, nationally and internationally.
The Four Directions
In a major effort to increase the presence of Native Americans on television, NBC
Entertainment and the Oneida Nation launched a web site to find Indian actors, comedians and writers with the potential to be cast in and write for programs in development and on the air. “The Four Directions Talent Search” is open to tribally affiliated Native Americans who are not currently under contract with a talent agent or studio.
Jiriki Management
Jiriki Management began primarily as a management agency for actors. The agency was started in 1996 and has been steadily growing and diversifying ever since. Beverley Webb, Manager/Director, now concentrates on only a few very talented people and is specializing in Project Management involving Jiriki's talent and other Western Australian artists.
Original Indigenous Talent
Original Indigenous Talent is a principle Talent Agency that represents Canadian Native actors in film, television, theatre, voice-over work, corporate and industrial videos as well as commercial work. The mandate of the Agency is to acquire roles in the mainstream industry for Native Actors and not just Native roles.
Television
Native American Television, Inc.
Native American Television, Inc. is the first nonprofit Native American multimedia broadcasting network and technology training news organization located in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
Tulalip KANU TV 99
KANU TV 99 is a unique cable channel providing programming to Native households and subscribers to Tulalip Broadband. Now available worldwide by Live Webstream. Programming includes News and Information directed to Tulalip Tribal Members and their families. In addition, there are other Programs of general interest to all Native Americans. Most of the TV programming is culturally or historically based, and all is non-commercial in content.
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