Tsanavi Spoonhunter & Alex Smith | Indigenous Stories in Films

Woodstock Film Festival LET'S TALK FILM! Podcast

LET’S TALK FILM! Podcast Episode #9
In this episode, we chat with filmmakers Alex Smith and Tsanavi Spoonhunter about this year's Woodstock Film Festival’s Filmmaker Residency and Tsanavi’s upcoming documentary feature HOLDER OF THE SKY. Alex is a filmmaker and educator and currently serves as the Creative Director for Woodstock’s Filmmaker Residency where he helped mentor Tsanavi this past year. He and his twin brother have written and directed three feature films: WALKING OUT (2017), WINTER IN THE BLOOD (2013), and THE SLAUGHTER RULE (2002). Tsanavi Spoonhunter is a Northern Arapaho and Northern Paiute nonfiction film director, producer, and writer based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. Spoonhunter is a 2022-2024 Firelight Media Documentary Lab fellow and Woodstock Film Festival resident where she collaborated with other filmmakers and mentors to develop her upcoming project.

Alex Smith:

http://www.ranchwaterfilms.com/

https://www.instagram.com/ranchwaterfilms/

https://www.instagram.com/walkingoutfilm/

Tsanavi Spoonhunter:

https://tsanavi.com/

https://www.instagram.com/tsanavi/

https://www.holderoftheskyfilm.com/

Topics Discussed:

-2023 Woodstock Film Festival Filmmaker Residency
-Tsanavi’s upcoming project HOLDER OF THE SKY
-Relationship with nature in filmmaking
-Importance of collaboration in indigenous filmmaking
- Upcoming Residency showcase at WFF 2023