RNCI presents 'Native Women Write' Conversation Series

Native Women Write

In partnership with AMC Networks, RNCI’s program ‘Native Women Write’ offers emerging Native Indigenous screenwriters an opportunity to get their script in front of experienced industry professionals.

AMC Networks is honored to provide hands-on access, education and new mentoring opportunities to members of the Red Nation Celebration Institute (RNCI), an organization that is at the forefront of bringing Native American and Indigenous creators into television and film.

“The top 3 writers selected from this year’s Native Women Write will meet with AMCN & RNCI executives, with the first prize winner receiving an exclusive opportunity with AMC Networks”

Congrats to the TOP 3 Writers Selected for 2023!

WARSONG

by Loretta Todd

A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT

by Julianna Maggrah

MULHOLLAND TRIBE

by Heather Dawn

Program Overview

Native Women Write™ began in 2010, is an intensive scriptwriting lab that is designed to develop native women writers to further their careers in film and television industry.

Industry professionals work with a hand full of native women writers, during the each scheduled program. In addition the lab will develop drama and comedy writers for jobs at a television networks, film studio and Red Nation Television Network.

Pitching Now

In 1996, Actress, director, producer Joanelle Romero created produced and was the lead in the first all-Native drama series produced ‘pilot’ in the U.S. RED BLANKET – HOME, HOME ON THE REZ, along with the late Larry Sellers, Elaine Miles.

She went on to screen it for Steven Spielberg back in 1996 and his lead executive told me I was way ahead of my time and that it would be 25 years before we see an all Native TV series. He was right – now we have Reservation Dogs and Dark Winds.

New Mexico State Police Officer Lee Nez is a nightwalker, a Navajo vampire. Thanks to the quick work of a Navajo shaman, Lee can walk about in the day and prefers his blood refrigerated-but his vampire nature makes him a magnet for other supernatural entities.

Take his current cases. Lee suspects that the vampire who created him during World War II is back in the US, searching for a cache of stolen plutonium. And Lee’s being stalked by the remnants of a pack of skinwalkers; Navajo shape shifters who are literally out for his blood.

NWIFTV 'ON THE ROAD'

Red Nation Celebration Institute (RNCI) a nonprofit organization, is the longest-running, successful Native women-led, Indigenous media arts and cultural enterprise in the history of the entertainment industry – representing 575+ Native Nations! Red Nation Celebration Institute, in being the first to create the largest Native Indigenous Film Festival in the country ‘Red Nation International Film Festival,’ to the first streaming network (predating Netflix and all others) ‘Red Nation Television Network,’ to Native Women in Film & Television in All Media and Native Indigenous Student Academy for Cinematic Arts. The Creative Enterprise by Natives delivering to all people the stories that shape our world.

RNCI is a year-round nonprofit arts media & culture organization based in Los Angeles CA and New Mexico, founded by Joanelle Romero in 1995 during the famous Indian Market in Santa Fe NM.

PARIS FRANCE MAY, 2023
WASHINGTON D.C. JUNE, 2023
NEW YORK CITY JUNE, 2023
SANTA FE AUGUST 15 – 19, 2023

RNCI Year-Round Program Calendar

The Red Nation Celebration Institute Programs focus on the specific development of storytellers from Native and Indigenous backgrounds, encompassing feature film and episodic work. Fellows will receive hands-on support from the Institute and advisors, including one-on-one feedback sessions and roundtable discussions.