Hud Oberly (Comanche/Osage/Caddo) is the Program Coordinator for the Native American and Indigenous Program at Sundance Institute, where he touches a wide variety of areas including artist relations, Indigenous/tribal community relations, and creative input. While based in Los Angeles, he frequently travels the country and world searching for, identifying, and supporting Native and Indigenous filmmakers. He specializes his work to hit the broader goal of changing outdated narratives of Native American, Indigenous and First Nations peoples. He believes through film and other modern storytelling mediums, old perceptions can be changed and new ones can be formed.
An Indigenous Lens Benefits Us—and American Cinema at Large
“Championing artists with an Indigenous perspective in film not only empowers the Native American population but also to bring diverse stories and storytelling to the screen for the benefit and growth of American cinema as a whole.” In the fifth edition of Soundboard, Hud Oberly, program coordinator for the Indigenous Program at Sundance Institute, joins filmmakers Sky Hopinka, Adam Khalil, and Alex Lazarowich in addressing the question, “What does it mean to have an Indigenous lens in film?”