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The Native American Media Alliance has revealed the selections for its fifth annual Native American Showrunner Program. See the list below.

Sponsored by Comcast NBCUniversal, Cherokee Film and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Native American Showrunner Program is a multi-month intensive that offers mentorship from television showrunners and series creators to experienced Native American writers. The program has expanded to include Native American producers in unscripted as well.

Program fellows take part in several meetings with assigned showrunner mentors who offer guidance on furthering the fellows’ writing and producing careers and provide creative feedback on current projects. The program consists of weekly one-on-one mentoring to develop the writers’ and producers’ abilities, offer advice as it pertains to producing for television and provide overall insight into running a television series.

The Native American Showrunner Program is designed to propel experienced Native American writers to the highest levels of television writing and producing.

Rumours About The Royal Family Have Been Going Viral(Photo Credit –Instagram)

The internet has been abuzz with conspiracy theories and fake news updates about the Royal Family. Rumours of ‘King Charles’s Death’ to ‘Kate Middle Murdered’, BBC being put on alert and even the UK flags being set on hold-mast having been circulating wildly on the internet. But after a whirlwind of reports, these claims have finally been fact-checked by a portal and deemed false.

Medical emergencies have surrounded the royals., and the people can’t believe it. After a series of official announcements about King Charles‘s cancer diagnosis and Kate Middleton‘s emergency abdominal surgery, the internet had theorized in their minds that something was very wrong with the royal family and these public figures were dead.

After thousands of posts and memes about the same. Finally, there is some resolution to a few months of...

Larsa Pippen was banished on the latest episode of The Traitors 2, and she is lashing out at Big Brother star Janelle Pierzina.

The Real Housewives franchise had four people representing them on The Traitors 2 cast, but those numbers led to other people fearing their alliance.

Larsa (The Real Housewives of Miami) was joined in the Scottish castle by Tamra Judge (The Real Housewives of Orange County), Phaedra Parks (Married to Medicine/The Real Housewives of Atlanta), and Sheree Whitfield (The Real Housewives of Atlanta).

The reality competition show airs on Peacock, with a new episode streaming each week.

Larsa was eliminated in the fourth episode, thanks to several accusations.

Several people thought she might be a Traitor working to steal the money from everyone else.

Larsa says Janelle was jealous of her camera time

The Real Housewife answered when asked why she thought Janelle was suspicious of her toast to...

On February 3, 2023, Showtime premiered the docuseries “Murder in Big Horn.” It spotlights the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (Mmiw) that has been prevalent since colonization. Directed by Razelle Benally and Matthew Galkin, the three-part docuseries examines the circumstances surrounding many of these cases. Watch the trailer below.

The docuseries told solely through the perspectives of those involved: Native families, Native journalists, and local law enforcement officers, currently holds an 82 freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Read our review roundup below.

Courtney Small of That Shelf writes, “in places like Big Horn County, Montana, the target on the backs of Native American women has been there from birth…Due to its unique location on Interstate 90, Big Horn County is an area where members of the Northern Cheyenne and Crow Nations mix with non-Natives and travelers passing through. It has also become a hunting ground of sorts for predators seeking to...

Dozens of Indigenous women and girls from the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Nations have gone missing over the past decade in Montana’s Big Horn County and its surrounding areas. These cases often go cold, leaving grieving families without any closure—especially when met with the ambivalence of local police. Murder in Big Horn, a documentary from directors Razelle Benally and Matthew Galkin, confronts the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (Mmiw) by interviewing loved ones in mourning, Native journalists and law enforcement. Dp Jeff Hutchens talks about shooting this project with the utmost sensitivity while also capturing the “palette of […]

The post “You Hope the Work Can Play a Small Part in Moving the Needle Forward”: Dp Jeff Hutchens on Murder in Big Horn first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

Dozens of Indigenous women and girls from the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Nations have gone missing over the past decade in Montana’s Big Horn County and its surrounding areas. These cases often go cold, leaving grieving families without any closure—especially when met with the ambivalence of local police. Murder in Big Horn, a documentary from directors Razelle Benally and Matthew Galkin, confronts the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (Mmiw) by interviewing loved ones in mourning, Native journalists and law enforcement. Dp Jeff Hutchens talks about shooting this project with the utmost sensitivity while also capturing the “palette of […]

The post “You Hope the Work Can Play a Small Part in Moving the Needle Forward”: Dp Jeff Hutchens on Murder in Big Horn first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

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Yara Shahidi, arguably the face of Freeform, is extending her overall deal with the studio behind Grown-ish and adding Onyx Collective to the pact.

“It is every creative’s dream to be seen and heard and to do so with colleagues who align with your vision and your soul. We are so grateful to have the opportunity to continue to create with our Disney family and be grounded in the work that Onyx Collective is doing to meet the moment,” said Yara Shahidi and her mom/business partner Keri Shahidi.

The duo’s 7th Sun banner will continue to develop and produce scripted and unscripted programming for both studios as part of the exclusive deal that includes working with Freeform and Onyx Collective president Tara Duncan and her various teams.

Shahidi joins the likes of Ryan Coogler, Destin Daniel Cretton, Prentice Penny, Natasha Rothwell...