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Variety’s Indigenous Storytellers Breakfast Highlights Authentic Narratives, Teases New Projects and Encourages Artists to Trust Their Instincts
Variety hosted the Indigenous Storytelling in Entertainment Breakfast on June 5 in Los Angeles.
“Sugargane” co-directors Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie joined Variety’s Clayton Davis to discuss their enlightening and devastating look into the abuse and missing children at the Indian Residential Schools in Canada. Oneida Indian Nation leader, producer and Academy Museum trustee Ray Halbritter joined co-creator and showrunner of “Rutherford Falls” Sierra Teller Ornelas in a discussion moderated by Variety Senior Artisans Editor Jazz Tangcay. In a keynote conversation moderated by Variety Senior Awards Editor Clayton Davis, Harjo explained that after he went home from their hang-out, he wrote a one-pager about their talk and didn’t think about it again until his agent called and said he scored a deal for the pilot.
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