November 2006
 Director,
actress, and educator Amy Tall Chief (Osage)
received production training at Third World Newsreel
Production Workshop in New York City. Her first film Plastic
Warriors won the Best Short Documentary Award in 2004 at the
Arlene's Grocery Picture Show in New York. Tall Chief formerly
worked at the National Museum of the American Indian as a Cultural
Interpreter and Artist-in-Residence. She directed fourteen plays
her first year in New York and many more followed. She has acted
in numerous films, plays, music videos, and television episodes,
including The Sopranos. She is a skilled beadworker whose
work is currently on display at the Jacobson House in Norman,
Oklahoma. Tall Chief is a champion Southern Buckskin and Cloth
dancer. She received a BFA in performance, directing, and costuming
from the University of Texas-Arlington. Tall Chief is the Director
of Entertainment for Osage Million Dollar Elm Casinos. She is
currently in post-production on a documentary about her family's
contributions to Osage Nation history, Ki-Hi-Ka Ste: Tall Chief,
and recently completed the feature-length script TANA.
Screened by NMAI
Image credit:
Amy Tall Chief - courtesy of the filmmaker
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