Issues affecting women and girls are chronically and unconscionably underfunded. Organizations dedicated to women and girls receive only around 2% of U.S. philanthropic dollars. Globally, if you put aside cancer research, women’s health receives just 1% of research funding. The funding levels aren’t meeting the need, which means there are countless opportunities to improve women’s and girls’ lives. Women’s health especially is a big priority for me moving forward.
– Melinda French Gates
NATIVE WOMEN WRITE SCREENWRITERS LAB FOR WOMEN OF COLOR
Native Women Write is a cinematic incubator where Native and Indigenous women and women of color claim the page—and the screen—with stories born of memory, resistance, humor, love, and sovereignty. Through immersive mentorship and intensive script development, the lab becomes a sacred creative space where bold visions are refined into powerful films and television narratives. Here, storytellers do more than write scripts—they shape culture, disrupt silence, and illuminate the future of cinema.
Native Women Write Scholarship Prorgam
NATIVE INDIGENOUS STUDENT ACADEMY OF CINEMATIC ARTS
The Native Indigenous Student Academy for Cinematic Arts is a program of Red Nation Celebration Institute amplifying emerging Native Indigenous student filmmakers.
Each year, students from North American Indian, First Nation Peoples of Canada, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and International Indigenous Peoples from Mexico, South America, New Zealand, age range 10-25 years (College, University), enrolled (full-time or part-time) in a degree-granting program at an eligible school when the film was made or from a Native Reservation or Native based school compete for awards with films being judged in the following categories: Animation, Documentary, Live Action Narrative and Alternative/Experimental.
Native Women Write Mentorship Program
Native Women Write is a mentorship program scaling its impact to empower the next generation of Native and Indigenous women storytellers-writers, producers, directors, and crew to build sustainable careers across film and television.
NWIFTV- Why We Wear RED
Our Mission is a powerful media coalition initiative aimed at raising global awareness about the glaring lack of inclusion of Native Women in Film & Television in all media. This issue is directly intertwined with the devastating epidemic of Missing and Murdered Native and Indigenous Women, Girls, and People.
NWIFTV- Only One Water
Our first medicine is the sacred water in our mother’s womb. As a collective body of creatives, we will embark on a journey to share Indigenous knowledge as water protectors and environmental stewards of this land, illustrating how these roles manifest on the big screen to raise global awareness for Mother Earth.
Native Women in Film & Television in All Media – Film Festival. The first and largest representation of Native and Indigenous Women Filmmakers. NWIFTV is a program of Red Nation Celebration Institute.
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