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August 2008
 In
2008 documentary directory William Luther
(Navajo/Hopi/Laguna Pueblo) became the first Native
American filmmaker to receive a grant from Creative Capital, one
of the US's prime funders for contemporary artists. He was also
awarded a 2008 Media Arts Fellowship by the Tribeca Film Institute
and Renew Media. Both grants are for production support for his
next film, Grab (working title), a documentary about Grab
Day, a thanksgiving celebration at Laguna Pueblo.
In 2007 Luther premiered his first feature Miss Navajo
at the Sundance Film Festival. The film has since screened at
numerous national and international festivals and was broadcast
on the PBS series Independent Lens. In 2006 Luther was
selected as a Sundance Institute/Ford Foundation Fellow in Sundance's
Native and Indigenous Initiatives Program and participated in
the WGBH Producers Workshop. In 2005 on the basis of his script
for the film, he was selected to participate in Tribeca All Access
and was awarded an All Roads Film Project Seed Grant. Luther studied
film at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and worked
on several festivals and program projects at the NMAI's Film and
Video Center in New York. Luther lives in Los Angeles, California.
Screened by NMAI
Image credits: William
Luther - courtesy of the filmmaker
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