Vision Maker Media Celebrates 45 Years of Empowering Native Voices throughout 2021
In 2021, Vision Maker Media (visionmakermedia.org) is celebrating 45 years of empowering Native voices. Established in 1976, with continuous support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET), their mission remains to empower and engage Native people to share their stories. What began as a film archive to conserve and document Native American stories has, through the years, transformed into the nation’s public-media leader in content by and about America’s first people—Native Americans and Alaska Natives—for public broadcasting.
The nonprofit Vision Maker Media is marking its 45th year with a year-long celebration of commUNITY events, including the premiere of an all-new Indigenous Vision Maker Media podcast, thematic film screenings, public events, and more. They envision a world changed and healed by understanding Native stories and the public conversations they generate. Vision Maker Media is incredibly excited to celebrate 2021 with their commUNITY—YOU!
Vision Maker Media has 56 Native filmmakers and nearly 40 films currently in public-media broadcasting, 10 of which were added in 2019. They are currently accepting applications for their 2021 Public Media Project funding through February 12. To learn more, visit visionmakermedia.org, or direct questions to Charlie Perry at cperry@netad.unl.edu.