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Cherokee Nation Opens First Tribally Operated Film School: ‘We Need More Native Americans Working at Every Level of This Industry’
Jennifer Loren, senior director of Cherokee Film, discusses the launch of Cherokee Film Institute and why it's focused on below-the-line training.
I was an investigative journalist doing long form, and the Cherokee Nation came, they knew I was a citizen of the tribe, and said, “We want to start telling our story ourselves. We wanted to create a place where Native Americans had a workforce development entity where they would feel safe and where they would be able to learn how to get their foot in the door to this industry. I hope they make relationships with people through the Institute and the internship program after that, and immediately find work and start becoming a regular part of a film set here in Oklahoma, or elsewhere.
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