Meet the Fellows

Six filmmakers will join the 4th World family in 2025 as fellows in the 10th program cohort. Browse below to meet the newest 4th World fellows and explore the alumni network of over 60 Indigenous artists and storytellers.


4th World Media Lab Alumni

2024

BRUCE THOMAS MILLER (Anishinaabe, Matachewan First Nation)  |  CASS GARDINER (Anishinaabe Algonquin, Kebaowek First Nation)  |  KEISHA ERWIN (Woodland Cree, Lac La Ronge Indian Band)  |  NICOLLE L. GONZALES (ARTHUN) (Diné, Navajo Nation)  |  SISA QUISPE (Quechua Aymara)  |  VICTORIA CHEYENNE (Aymara, El Alto Bolivia, Tsétsêhéstâhese, Northern Cheyenne)

2023

PAIGE BETHMANN (Haudenosaunee (Mohawk, Oneida)  |  FRITZ BITSOIE (Diné)  |  JONATHAN LUNA (Tama Descent, Mestizo)  |  RITCHIE HEMPHILL (Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw)  |  ADRIANNA RODRIGUEZ (Standing Rock Sioux)  |  LOREN WATERS (Cherokee Nation, Kiowa Tribe)

2021-2022

AJUAWAK KAPESHESIT (White Earth Ojibwe descendant Waskaganish Cree Enrolled member)  |  BRIT HENSEL (Cherokee Nation)  |  JARED LANK (Mi'kmaq) |. ERIN LAU (Native Hawaiian)  |  MORNINGSTAR ANGELINE (Navajo, Chippewa Cree, Blackfeet, Shoshone and Latinx)  |  LUCÍA ORTEGA TOLEDO (Zapotec)  |  THEOLA ROSS (Cree Treaty 5, Pimicikamak Cree Nation-Cross Lake)

2020

JUSTIN AH CHONG (Kanaka Maoli, Native Hawaiian)  |  CHAD CHARLIE (Ahousaht First Nation)  |  EMILY COHEN IBAÑEZ (LatinX, Columbian-American)  |  GEORGIANNA LEPPING (Soloman Islander)  |  REGINA LEPPING (Solomon Islander)  |  ALEX SALLEE (Iñupiaq)  |  ASHLEY SOLIS (Nahua and Chicana)  |  ASIA YOUNGMAN (Cree, Métis and Haudenosaunee)

2019

TAYLOR HENSEL (Cherokee Nation)  |  SHAAWAN FRANCIS KEAHNA (White Earth Anishinaabe and Meskawaki)  |  IVAN MACDONALD (Blackfeet)  |  IVY MACDONALD (Blackfeet)  |  COURTNEY MONTOUR (Mohawk, Kahnawake)  |  JJ NEEPIN (Cree)  |  EVELYN PAKINEWATIK (Nipissing First Nation, Ojibwe)  |  RAVEN TWO FEATHERS (Cherokee, Seneca, Cayuga, and Comanche)

2018

RAZELLE BENALLY (Oglala Lakota, Diné)  |  RAMONA EMERSON (Diné)  |  LEYA HALE (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota, Diné)  |  ALEX LAZAROWICH (Cree)  |  IVY MACDONALD (Blackfeet)  |  CHRISTEN MARQUEZ (Native Hawaiian)  |  COURTNEY MONTOUR (Mohawk)  |  ALYCIA ORTIZ (Miwok)  |  DEIDRA PEACHES (Diné)  |  COLLEEN THURSTON (Choctaw)  |  SHAANDIIN TOME (Diné)

2017

JUSTIN DEEGAN (Mandan, Hidatsa, & Arikara Nation) | RENA PRIEST (Lummi) | KYLE BELL (Thlopthlocco Creek) | RAZELLE BENALLY (Oglala Lakota, Diné) | DANIEL HYDE (Diné) | LELA CHILDS (Lummi) | RACHEL PLENTY WOLF (Oglala Lakota) | SAVANNA THUNDER (Red Lake and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe)

2016

IMMERSIVE MEDIA SUMMIT

2015 

STEVEN PAUL JUDD (Kiowa and Choctaw) | KHALIL HUDSON (Tlingit & Haida, T’aakdeintaan) | MELISSA WOODROW (Wuksachi Indian Tribe) | SUSAN BALBAS (Cherokee/Yaqui) | DALLAS PINKHAM (Yakama) | PESHAWN BREAD (Comanche) | PAUL COLLINS | LULU DEBOER (Kirabati) | GISELLA BUSTILLOS (Bolivian, Vietnamese)

Great thanks to the 4th World funders and program partners: