MFA, Temple University, 1984

Office: Padelford C-514H
Phone: 616-7498
E-Mail: dhart@uw.edu

Dan Hart is an award winning documentary producer and director, professor of American Indian studies at the University of Washington, and the founder and director of the nationally recognized Native Voices Program.

Under Hart’s guidance, Native Voices has produced films on everything from tribal histories to religion to contemporary socio-cultural issues. The Sundance Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and other prestigious venues have screened documentaries from the program’s collection while universities and secondary schools around the world draw on Native Voices documentaries to educate their students.

Dan’s recent work includes:

“Down To Earth”: A diary film following three young Native film makers.

“Schools Weren’t Made to Separate”: Part of an Annenberg Coporation for PBS exploring the special needs of at risk students.

“White Shamans and Plastic Medicine Men”: A documentary exploring the commercialization and exploitation by non-Indians of NA Culture and spiritual practices.