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August 2005
 Bryan
Gunnar Cole is the director of Boomtown, winner
of the Rigoberta Menchu Tum Prize at the 2002 First Peoples' Festival
Film and Video Showcase in Montreal. Boomtown was selected
for public television screening on P.O.V. His works directed and
produced for television include Search for the First Dog
for National Geographic and Unfurled for Showtime. Cole
was the supervising producer for The Buffalo War, directed
by Matthew Testa, which chronicles a 500-mile march led by Lakota
Sioux elder Rosalie Little Thunder to protest the killing of buffalo
that migrate out of Yellowstone National Park. He received an
MFA from NYU's Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, where
he won the 1997 Second Prize Wasserman Award for his thesis film
Trim, and the Maurice Kanbar Award for Excellence in Directing.
He is the co-founder of Seattle's Annex Theater; his stage productions
include Wonka and The Up and Coming. Cole was raised
in Bainbridge Island, Washington, and received a BA in film studies
from Yale University.
Screened by NMAI
- Boomtown (2002)
producer, director, and writer
Image credits: Bryan
Gunnar Cole - photograph by Matthew Clark
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