Reel Indigenous

Zoe Leigh Hopkins joins Sunrise and Angela to talk about her career, starting with acting, then to editing and now to directing episodes of the award-winning Netflix series North of North. She talks about the importance of learning her language and all of the power that comes with it.

Back to deadCenter for the next round of interviews! We mix it up with Icon Loren Waters, Tulsa filmmaker Keith Daniels, and fashion icon Peshawn Bread, who lays down the law about AI. And remember, narrative sovereignty is the goal! #sunrisen #filmfestival #indigenous

Actor, writer, director, producer, graphic designer, but funny? Let's find out this week when Tai Leclaire visits with us.
Fresh off King of the Hill, we talk Rutherford Falls (!), the Best Holiday of the Year (Halloween, duh) and his upcoming film Cheyenne!

Meegwun Fairbrother has come a long way from Butterhead to playing an Osage family man in the new Little House on the Prairie series dropping on July 9. Charles Ingalls just got a new neighbor!
He joins us this week to talk about working with Sydney Freeland, learning Osage, and his upcoming projects.

It's deadCenter 2026 Part 1 - The Reckoning!
First, we got Blake Pickens and Caleb Vesely, who worked with Brenda Fisher and Chief Marchand Rice to share Chief's story of his life sentence and his journey into reconnecting with his heritage in a moving documentary that won Best Indigenous Festure at dC2026.
Next, we got Josiah Jones, whose documentary short Stankface Standing Soldier follows DJ and Mato Wayuhi, known for his work on Reservation Dogs. It can be seen on PBS In the Making American Masters Short Docs online.