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February 2009
 Director
Nanobah Becker (Navajo) was
chosen for Project: Involve, a 9-month production and professional
development program of Film Independent in Los Angeles. In 2006
she was one of 22 media artists awarded a National Video Resources
Media Arts Fellowship to produce her newest project, working title
Full, a fiction film about a gay Navajo man who returns to
the queer Native American nightlife in Albuquerque after failing
as a disc jockey in New York City. Becker was selected for the
Native Forum Filmmaker's Workshop at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
to work on script development for a feature film. She received
her MFA at the Film Division of Columbia University, specializing
in directing. In 2004 she was an NMAI program intern at the Film
and Video Center in New York, and taught a summer course on narrative
film production for Native American high school students in New
Mexico. Becker was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico
and received a BA in Anthropology from Brown University. She spent
several years working with Native youth both at the Navajo Nation
and in Albuquerque at Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
before deciding to pursue filmmaking. She currently lives and
works in Los Angeles, CA.
"I have always been fascinated by film. Recognizing the
lack of media reflecting the experience of Navajo youth, I decided
there was ample room for me to explore filmmaking. That got me
started. What keeps me going is the elusiveness of it. Filmmaking
is a craft that can never be mastered I'm constantly learning
with each new project, each new idea."
Screened by NMAI
Image credits: Nanobah
Becker - photograph by Othell Begay; Nanobah Becker - photograph
by Tim Warner
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