The incentives also will offer increased funding for using Native American employees, as well as for using Native-owned businesses. One of the goals is better representation of Native people on screen.
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The Cherokee Nation Film Office plans to utilize the newly constructed Cherokee Nation Covid Response Virtual Soundstage in Owasso, a state-of-the-art facility crafted with industry-leading software and hardware technologies.
The season premiere is Jan. 27.
The newest season of “Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People” debuts this month, showcasing the endangered language, rich traditions and compell…
The Cherokee Nation Film Office and Oklahoma Film & Television Academy are partnering to help educate Native American students to be set-r…
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Not very long ago, Native Americans were hard to find in the film industry. Even when a Native character appeared on screen, they were often p…
Kevin Shand is the tribe’s new film commissioner.
Films will be shown at Circle Cinema and the Admiral Twin Drive-In.
Will the third time be the charm for Circle Cinema, Tulsa's historic arthouse theater, in attempting to reopen to the public and show movies again?
Cherokee Nation Film Office is helping develop Native talent in the film and television industry by offering 50 new scholarships for certifica…
This year’s Cherokee National Holiday will be unlike any other in our history. Since 1953 our capital city of Tahlequah has been the host to t…
The Cherokee Nation will host a series of "drive-in movie nights" as part of its upcoming 68th annual tribal holiday events, including a Sept. 4 premiere of a pilot episode for a new animated Cherokee-language series.
The Cherokee Nation has produced a pilot episode for a planned animated series that would be performed entirely in the Cherokee language, according to a press release from the tribe.
Thanks to a state rebate program, which was doubled by the state legislature last year, Oklahoma’s film industry has experienced tremendous growth and continues to be recognized as a burgeoning market for film and television production.
When we first made the leap of opening the Cherokee Nation Film Office, we often heard, “Why should Cherokee Nation get involved in this?” To …
The Cherokee Nation Film Office is expanding its presence at the independent film forum that is Sundance Film Festival this week in Utah, as is the Tulsa Office of Film, Music, Arts & Culture.
Telling the Cherokee story – our history, our heritage – is a skill that our people have passed down from one generation to the next. Storytel…
The goals include growing the state film industry by promoting northeast Oklahoma as a destination for filmmakers; maintaining a database of Cherokee Nation locations for film shoots, resources and talent; and serving as a cultural and historical consultant on film projects.