BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:LA SKINS FEST: Native American USC Graduates Return X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260913T135412Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_37637520133016 DTSTART:20211012T020000Z DTEND:20211012T030000Z DESCRIPTION:Live via Zoom\n\nADMISSION:\nAdmission is free.\n\nRSVP\n\nDESC RIPTION:\nThe LA SKINS FEST has hosted many Native American USC graduates through its labs\, festival\, and other programs. Presented on Indigenous Peoples’ Day\, this panel of writers\, actors\, directors\, and producer s will recall their time at USC and experiences with the LA SKINS FEST\, a nd discuss how the entities work together to develop and promote indigenou s voices in the arts.\n\nThe LA SKINS FEST is a film festival that provide s opportunities for Native American filmmakers and offers additional progr amming to encourage them\, including a monthly writers group\, monthly dir ectors workshop\, and youth multimedia workshops.\n\nAbout the panelists:\ n\nLucas Brown Eyes is an Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge Indian Reserva tion who graduated from USC with a B.A. in Cinema-Television Production. H e was accepted into the ABC Disney Writing Program in 2014. Since then\, h e has sold pilots to Fox and PBS and staffed on over 100 episodes of telev ision for Netflix\, Fox\, Freeform\, Disney\, PBS\, and\, most recently\, Duster for HBO Max.\n\nYelyna Deleon is an award-winning filmmaker\, write r\, and actor from the South Side of Chicago. She received her MFA in Film and Television Production with a concentration in Writing from USC and he r B.A. in Chicano Studies and Film and Television from UCLA\, and teaches at Cal State Los Angele. The NHMC writing fellow graduate and NALIP Telev isa/Univision Writing Fellow wrote and produced Murder in the Woods\, a sl asher movie\, and is currently the writer\, director\, and showrunner for The Train\, a sci-fi pilot that is set to premiere later this year.\n\nMir anda Due is a Pawnee/Cherokee game developer from Mvskoke Territory (Tulsa \, Oklahoma). Miranda graduated from USC in 2016 with degrees in Interacti ve Entertainment and International Relations and completed the George Wash ington University Native American Political Leadership program in 2017. In addition to working on the Call of Duty franchise at AAA games\, Miranda is the Inclusion and Impact co-chair of the Women of Cinematic Arts organi zation\, the chair of the International Game Developers Association (Los A ngeles Chapter)\, and a director on the Pawnee Nation Museum board of dire ctors.\n\nIndependent writer\, producer\, and media consultant Sonya Oberl y is an enrolled member of the Nez Perce Tribe and a descendant of the Osa ge and Comanche Tribes in Oklahoma. In 2009\, she earned her MFA from USC with an emphasis in writing and directing. Her films have screened at the American Indian Film festival in San Francisco\, the Museum of Tolerance i n Los Angeles\, the First Nations Film Festival in Chicago\, the Minneapol is Intermedia Arts Center\, and the Agua Caliente Native FilmFest. She is a fellow of the 2018 Native American TV Writers Lab and 2020 Vision Maker Filmmaker Fellowship.\n\nMaddox Pennington (moderator) is a nonbinary writ er\, professor\, and playwright originally from the Cherokee Nation. They received an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University\, and thei r debut bibliomemoir\, A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontes Taught M e About Life\, Love\, and Women’s Work was published by Hachette Books i n 2017. Prior to teaching writing at USC Dornsife\, they performed comedy all over DC\, including the DC Drafthouse\, Joe’s Movement Emporium\, DC LGBTQ Comedy Fest\, and almost every Busboys and Poets back room.\n\nRhia na Yazzie is a 2021 Lanford Wilson and Steinberg award–winning playwrigh t\, director\, and filmmaker. She is also artistic director of New Native Theatre\, which she started in 2009 as a response to the lack of connectio n and professional opportunities between Twin Cities theaters and the Nati ve community. A Navajo Nation citizen\, she has seen her plays on stages f rom Alaska to Mexico\, including Carnegie Hall’s collaboration with the American Indian Community House & Eagle Project.\n\nRelated Events:\nLA SK INS FEST: Native American Women in Media\nMonday\, September 13\, 2021\, a t 7 p.m.\nLive via Zoom\nFor more info\, click HERE.\n\nLA SKINS FEST: Nat ive American Women in Animation\nThursday\, November 18\, 2021\, at 7 p.m. \nRay Stark Family Theatre\, SCA 108\nFor more info\, click HERE.\n\nPrese nted by the USC School of Cinematic Arts\, Outside the Box (Office)\, Our Voices\, USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative\, and the LA SKINS FEST.\n\nPhoto (Maddox Pennington): Rah Foard LOCATION: SUMMARY:LA SKINS FEST: Native American USC Graduates Return URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.usc.edu/event/la_skins_festa_conversation_wi th_native_american_actors CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk / Workshop END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR