, Danielle Petty, Michael Dean Shelton
RNFF Award Winners:
Red Nation Student Women Film Project Winners:
Lumbini Park - Directed by Eve LaFountain (Turtle Mountain Chippewa)
A Thousand Unsaid Words - Directed by Katrina Montoya (Sault St. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians)
The Hand Drum - Directed by Stephanie Painter (Shoshone/Washoe/Oneida)
A NIGHT OF TRIBUTE AWARDS CEREMONY recipients were:
• "Red Nation Vision Award” – In Loving Memory to Michael Jackson “Black or White”
• “Edward Albert Jr Indigenous Film Award” – Edward James Olmos, Actor
• “Brando Award” – Joe Berlinger, director of Crude
• “Lifetime Achievement Award” – Graham Greene, Actor • “Best Network Award” – CBS Corporation
• “Television Heritage Media Award” – James Ramos, San Manuel Tribe
• “Red Nation Theatre Playwright Award” – Richard Montoya, Culture Clash
• “Red Nation Humanartian Award” – Leonard Peltier, Activist
• “Red Nation Activists Award” – Atossa Soltani, Director of Amazon Watch
• “Red Nation Community Award” – Christine Padilla, Community Volunteer Lakota Nation
In attendance were:
Edward James Olmos (actor), Josie Thomas-Head of Diversity-Senior VP (CBS Corporation), Jo Berlinger, director of Crude,Atossa Soltani, (Amazon Watch) accepting on her behalf Mitchell Anderson, Leonard Peltier (activist) accepting on his behalf RJ Joseph, Christine Padilla (community volunteer), Disney ABC Television Group Frank B. Gonzalez, Chaske Spencer (actor/New Moon), Tinsel Korey (actor/New Moon), Alex Meraz (actor/New Moon), Rene Heyes (casting director), Zahn McClarnon (actor/Into The West), Gil Birmingham (actor/New Moon), Jackie Jacobs (Talent Group), Kimberly Norris Guerrero (Dreamkeeper), Elijah De Jesus (actor/Pearl), V. Blackhawk Aamodt (director/The Ghost Riders), Camille Manybeads Tso (director/In The Footsteps of Yellow Woman) to name a few.
Vicangelo Bulluck - Executive Director Hollywood Bureau of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) gave opening remarks.
Keynote Address: Joanelle Romero – RNFF Founder/Community Organizer/Executive Director/Producer and Montano Rain - Youth Environmentalist-founder of "Help the Earth”
RNFF included American Indian Traditional performances for opening & closing night Red is Green Carpet Galas and were performed by:
Mati Waiya Ceremonial Elder– Chumash Nation; Hershel Dayzie - Dine Nation; Pierson Nunez – Acjachemen Nation; Moses Brings Plenty - Cheyenne River/Sioux Nations; Clayson Benally of Blackfire - Dine Nation; Montano Rain - Apache/Cheyenne Nations
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