[Art-mfastudio] Fwd: [Art-faculty] Indigenous filmmaker Billy Luther visit, this Thursday

[Rob Duarte]

Nov 10, 2025 12:20:37 PM Jeff Beekman via Art-faculty <art-faculty at lists.fsu.edu>:


Hi All,

Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) has asked us to share that filmmaker *Billy Luther will be present for a conversation and free screening of his film /Frybread Face and Me/*/ /on *Thursday, Nov. 13 at 7pm at Askew Student Life Cinema*. Billy has had a long career as a writer, producer and director, most recently working as a writer for the Netflix show Dark Winds. 

Below is a flyer with more information, and this would be a great opportunity for those interested in Indigenous media worlds, writing, and filmmaking.

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*Billy Luther bio*
Billy Luther (Navajo, Hopi and Laguna Pueblo) is the writer/director of the award-winning feature film /Frybread Face and Me/, Executive Produced by Taika Waititi and distributed by Ava DuVernay’s Array for Netflix. The film was selected as part of SXSW 2023’s Narrative Spotlight and TIFF 2023’s Discovery and New Wave Selects His feature documentary /Miss Navajo/, premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and aired nationally on PBS’ Independent Lens that same year. His second documentary feature, /Grab/, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was screened at over 80 film festivals around the world. His short documentary film, /Red Lake/, had its world premiere at the 2016 LA Film Festival and was nominated for Best Documentary Short at the 2016 International Documentary Association Awards. In 2018, he launched his web series /alter-NATIVE/ for PBS’ IndieLens StoryCast. He is currently a writer and director for the AMC series /Dark Winds/. He is repped by CAA.

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