Randy Redroad

Randy Redroad is a Cherokee filmmaker and songwriter. He is best known for his films The Doe Boy (2001) and Among Ravens (2014).

Early life and education

Redroad grew up in Texas. He moved to New York City in the mid 1980s to pursue filmmaking. After two years in college, he completed a ten-month filmmaking workshop for people of color supported by Third World Newsreel.[1] Redroad is Cherokee on his mother's side and Irish on his father's.[2]

Film career

Redroad completed the films Cow Tipping: The Militant Indian Waiter (1991) and Haircut Hurts (1992) because of his participation with Third World Newsreel. He was given film directing residency from Sundance Institute in 1994. In the same year, he received the Rockefeller Intercultural Media grant. His film The Doe Boy (2001) was shown at the Sundance Film Festival.[1] Doe Boy is based partly on Redroad's own personal experience. The film's title comes from an incident when he accidentally shot a doe while hunting with his father.[3]

Randy is a founding member of the award-winning StyleHorse Collective, a group of indigenous artists who work with tribal organizations to create inspiring and educational film and video projects. StyleHorse Collective are the creators of the popular Powwow Sweat series and the award-winning music video "We Shall Remain."

Awards

The Doe Boy received 14 awards, including the Perrier Bubbling Under-First Time Filmmaker award at the Taos Talking Pictures film festival. Redroad also received the Sundance NHK International Filmmaker award and was nominated for the IFP Gotham outstanding directorial debut.[4]

Selected filmography

  • Cow Tipping: The Militant Indian Waiter (1991)
  • Haircut Hurts (1992)
  • High Horse (1994)
  • The Doe Boy (2001)
  • Moccasin Flats (2003)
  • 133 Skyway (2006)
  • Out Of The Blue (2007)
  • Ibid (2008)
  • First Circle (2010)
  • Beautiful Wave (2010)
  • Earth Meets Wind (2011)
  • Among Ravens (2014)
  • We Shall Remain (2014)
  • Powwow Sweat (2015)
  • Wind Walkers (2015)
  • Everybody Has An Andy Dick Story (2016)
  • Edge Of The World (2016)

References

  1. 1 2 Singer, Beverly R. (2001). Wiping the War Paint off the Lens: Native American Video and Film. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 53–54. ISBN 9780816631605.
  2. ↑ Barker, Deborah; McKee, Kathryn B (2011). American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary. Athens: University of Georgia Press. p. 261. ISBN 9780820337241. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  3. ↑ Hoffman, Elizabeth DeLaney (2012). American Indians and Popular Culture: Media, sports, and politics. Praeger: Santa Barbara. p. 95. ISBN 9780313379918. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  4. ↑ Fairbanks Molin, Paulette; Hirschfelder, Arlene B (2012). The extraordinary book of Native American lists. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 367. ISBN 9780810877092.
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