Documentary | Canada | 15 MINUTES | English
January Rogers is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer and media producer. She lives in Six Nations of the Grand River where she operates Ojistoh Publishing and Productions. January combines her literary talents with her passion for media making to produce audio and video poetry. Her video poem Ego of a Nation won Best Music Video at the American Indian International Film Festival 2020 and her sound art The Battle Within won Best Experimental Audio with imagine Native International Film and Media Festival 2021.
She is a literary mentor with Audible’s Indigenous Writers Circle since 2022. January wrote, produced and directed the 10-episode comedy series NDNs on the Airwaves (found on the Ojistoh youtube channel) and her play Blood Sport, a comedy about the pretendian crisis in Indian Country has received numerous stage readings and was published by Turtle’s Back Publishing in 2023. January also has a background in radio production and is part of the 2024 and 2025 A Day to Listen hosted by the Downie Wenjack Fund. She guest-hosted 10 episodes of the Kim Wheeler show on SiriusXM The Indigiverse through the summer of 2024, and produced 6 episodes of Words and Culture (The Haudenosaunee language series) with SiriusXM in January 2024.
In 2025 she received an Indigenous Arts Award nomination from the Ontario Arts Council in recognition of her scope of work spanning over 30 years and was awarded an Indigenous Niagara Outstanding Achievement Award for Performing Arts in September 2025.
Thursday, March 12
Screening: Noon – 1:30pm
Program 1
AMC The Grove 14
189 The Grove Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90036