Marcella Ernest

Check out the Web site for Marcella's short film Spider Kid.

Since entering the Native Voices program Marcella has had been selected to screen short works at:

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, NYC. NY

Heard Museum, Phoenix AZ 2003 and 2006

ImagineNATIVE film and media arts festival, Toronto, CAN

Oakland International film festival 2005 and 2006

Image-Nation Aboriginal film festival, Vancouver, BC Canada

Yakima Indian Nation Film Festival, Topinish, WA.

Native Filmmakers showcase 40th annual Nijonni Days, Albuquerque, NM.

Native Voices film festival in 2006. Seattle Washington

Community work with Native youth includes volunteering as an Instructor and Mentor to bring the tools of new media to Native kids through organizations such as Long House Media/Native Lens and Washington State MESA “reel stories” program. I work with Long House Media out at the Muckelshoot reservation on a film making program for the Muckelshoot youth. Along with Angelo Baca, Rachael Nez and Rosemary Gibbons, I volunteer with Washington State MESA’s Reel Stories at the 7th grade White Swan Middle School on the Yakima reservation in eastern Washington.

Angelo Baca, Marcella Ernest and Rachael Nez also volunteered with Long House Media/Native Lens partnered with the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) at the 2006 “Supa Fly”. Supa Fly was the first annual Future Wave Fly Filmmaking workshop which brought in a diverse group of youth from all over the country and gave them 32 hours to direct, produce and edit a script written by Sherman Alexie; that was printed to Beta SP and screened at SIFF just hours later at the Egyptian Theater in Seattle.

Marcella was a Featured (emerging) Artist in the Indian Education Today Magazine, “Story Telling: Keeping the Tradition Alive” 2006

Since being accepted to the Native Voices program I have had the following experience:

National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Smithsonian Institute, under Elizabeth Weatherford @ the Film and Video Center. NYC

Producers Fund 2006, Native American Public Telecommunication to attend the Native American Journalists Association in Tulsa, OAK

Producers Fund 2005, Native American Public Telecommunication