directed by victoria cheyenne
Are You Native?
In a conversation through time, Indigenous moccasin maker Shauna White Bear responds to the VHS tape she recorded 30 years ago for her father as she reflects on her identity, artform, and grief.
Role
Director, Editor, & Additional Cinematographer
Year
2026
Production Company
Laminar Flow Films
Format
Short Documentary Film
TRT
17 mins
How To Be A Daughter
A matrilineal exploration of how three generations of women from Bolivia to the US learn to heal their grief of loss of language, family, and culture. Victoria Cheyenne seeks to reconnect her mother, Lillian, with the family in her homelands in Bolivia who’ve spent the last 50 years searching for her.
Role
Director, Producer
Status
In Production
Production Company
Mother Mountain Studio
Producer
Gabriel Uchida
Format
Short Documentary Film
Learning I’m Home
Following student leader, Maleeya Knows His Gun, this film examines the beauty of creating a true community for Indigenous collegiate students. As the newly constructed American Indian Hall at Montana State University opens, we learn from three voices through the impacts of its first year.
Role
Director, Editor, Producer
Year
2023
Production Company
Mother Mountain Studio
Format
Short Documentary Film
DP
Kyle Bloom
TRT
18 mins
Voices of Talkeetna
At the meeting point of three glacial rivers, sits the Alaskan “gateway to Denali” in the town of Talkeetna. This film is a summer of audio recordings of townspeople’s anecdotes woven together into a love poem for this small town in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska where 900 people call home.
Family Dinner
Role
Director, Editor, Cinematographer
During the pandemic lockdown, rising high school senior Aidan Sullivan learns how to make pasta and reflects on the oddity of her normally “too busy” family now sitting down together for dinner every night for the first time since she was a child. Flashing between present day and family home videos, this film is a quiet portrait of a childhood kitchen.
Role
Director, Editor, Cinematographer
Production Company
Mother Mountain Studio
Format
Short Documentary Film
Production Company
Mother Mountain Studio
Format
Short Documentary Film