Indigenous Narrative Sovereignty: Pathways Through Turtle Island Film Festivals and Diverse Media Ecosystems

This dissertation follows Indigenous filmmakers today and examines their surrounding support structures through: the development of Kin Theory, an Indigenous media makers database, the 4th World Media Lab fellowship for emerging Indigenous filmmakers, and the world's largest presenter of Indigenous screen content, the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. By exploring how narrative sovereignty impacts diverse storytellers, this work illuminates how we can better fund creatives of color, teach their innovative media, and be led by Indigenous values, methodologies and theories towards co-liberation joy and a place where media reflects the rich diversity of our lives.

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Temple University. Libraries

Year dc:date.issued

2025

Author dc:creator

• Hurtubise, Michelle

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Stankiewicz, Damien, 1980-

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Rodríguez, Clemencia
• Reeder-Myers, Leslie A.
• Crey, Karrmen

• Cultural anthropology
• Film studies
• Indigenous studies
• Fellowships
• Film festivals
• Indigenous
• Media makers
• Narrative sovereignty
• Storytelling
• Anthropology

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eng

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https://scholarshare.temple.edu/handle/20.500.12613/11239

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