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Watch this ground-breaking Conversation with Joanelle Romero, Grace Dove and Irene Bedard discussing character development and the future of Native Indigenous Women in the entertainment industry.
JOANELLE ROMERO
Best known for her role as The Girl Hatter Fox’ the first time a native actress carried a leading role in a contemporary film 1977. Joanelle starred in critically-acclaimed Award-winning film ‘Powwow Highway’, a cult-classic. Recently in ‘Wild Indian’ Nominated for Gotham Awards, Emmy Awards, Spirit Awards, Golden Globes. Short-listed for an Academy Award for her film ‘American Holocaust: Whn. It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian’
GRACE DOVE
Early known for her role as Hugh Glass’ wife in the 2015 film The Revenant; as well as Ricki, a talented mechanic in the 2018 film How It Ends. Currently (2022) she stars alongside two-time Academy Awards winner Hilary Swank in the ABC network drama Alaska Daily, as journalists shining light on missing and murdered indigenous women and girls (MMIWG).
IRENE BEDARD
She is perhaps best known for the role of Suzy Song in the 1998 film Smoke Signals, as well as for providing the speaking voice for the titular character in the 1995 animated film Pocahontas.[2] Bedard reprised her role as Pocahontas in the film’s direct-to-video follow-up, Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998) and for a cameo in Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018).
In 1994, Bedard appeared in her first role as Mary Crow Dog in the television production of Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee, Steven Spielberg ‘Into the West’, Songs My Brothers Taught Me and co-starred with Grace Dove on Alaska Daily. Currently in Avatar, TheLastAirbender.