Donick Cary is a legacy fan of the Washington Football team. One day, son Otis asked him about the name. That conversation turned into the documentary Hail to the Breadsticks, winner of the Best Oklahoma Documentary at deadCenter Film Festival. Donick shares his journey through Indian Country as he discusses the name with some of our favs, including Graham Greene, Sterlin Harjo, Joey Clift, Steven Paul Judd, Tommy Orange, and many more. Check our LinkTree for more info on the initiative to change mascot names!

Fancy Dance will be at a theater near you soon! To celebrate, and to recover after deadCenter 2024, we present our interview with writer/director Erica Tremblay in 2023.

We continue our Host Interviews this week with Monica Brain, former journalist, current broadband advocate and raccoon enthusiast.

Our wide-ranging discussion covers the hands, morals and ethics of trash pandas, the Apes movies, Yoda, and the importance of digital equity across Indian Country.

Paris Burris, shorts programmer for deadCenter Film Fest, gives Matt and Angela the scoop on films and parties coming up June 6-9 in Oklahoma City. This is a great chance to get your passes, or volunteer, to network with some of the industry's movers and shakers!

Author Weyodi OldBear joins us this week to talk about all of the writing projects she is working, including Coyote and Crow RPG, five novels, a graphic novel, and more. She talks about the intricacies of world-building for Natives in the future, and why we are so enthralled with apocalyptic stories.

Girl-on-girl violence, racism, great soundtrack, chokers...the Hulu series Under the Bridge has the 90s all over it. Our hosts discuss the first episodes of the series starring Lily Gladstone and Riley Keogh and how very Canadian it all seems.

We had a blast at IPX this year! Noetta got some fun interviews, and Angela moderated the Reservation Dogs panel. We all shopped and marveled at the Cosplayers, who get better every year!

In this episode, we turn the microphone on Matt "Lowdown" Barse as he talks about his new short film, "Distance" and his journey of how he got to becoming a filmmaker.

Check out his film, "Distance" on the film festival circuits. It will be playing:

Sunday May 4 at 6:45 PM at the Barebones Film Festival in Muscogee, OK.

Go check it out!

Catch Matt on the various socials:

@lowdownent

https://www.youtube.com/@MattBarse

The music is: "UcanDanz2it" by the Chahta vba isht Taloa cocophony orchestra consort

And whether you're close or keeping a distance, don't just keep it real, keep it

REEL INDIGENOUS!