{"id":115401,"date":"2022-07-12T15:40:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T19:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmmakermagazine.com\/?p=115401"},"modified":"2022-07-12T15:40:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T19:40:07","slug":"interview-anpao-locke-sundance-native-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmmakermagazine.com\/115401-interview-anpao-locke-sundance-native-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Collaboration Process Is What Makes Filmmaking Feel Like Home”: Anpa\u2019o Locke on Sundance Native Lab 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Sundance Native Lab having returned to a (hybrid) in-person model for the first time in two years, <\/em>Filmmaker asked 2022 fellows to reflect on their recent experiences through short diary entries. Read the rest of the 2022 cohort’s responses<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Before the fellowship, I was feeling anxious. It\u2019s a new environment with new people, cool\u00a0people. I consider myself introverted, and thus out of my comfort zone. I was still in disbelief that I got chosen for the Full Circle Fellowship; I couldn\u2019t believe that people would want to listen to me. I wasn\u2019t sure of my voice as an artist.<\/p>\n

But that completely changed after being in a community with other Indigenous filmmakers. The Native Lab was two weeks long. The first week was virtual\u2014on Zoom\u2014and the second in-person. It was great having the Zoom calls and sensing a connection with the other participants, even virtually. But being in-person and feeling the energy and a sense of community that I couldn\u2019t experience after the pandemic was transformative. It was familiar and foreign, yet so needed and healing. The interpersonal relationships and community building in film spaces drive me to create. The collaboration process is what makes filmmaking feel like home.<\/p>\n

We were doing cold readings of the Native Lab Fellows: Justin Ducharme, Taietsar\u00f3n:sere \u2018Tai\u2019\u00a0Leclaire, Daniel Pewewardy, Tiare Ribeaux and Tim Worrall. The Indigenous perspective in\u00a0everyone\u2019s script was thrilling. The fellows created nuanced and complex characters\u00a0interrogated thoughtfully. It was refreshing to see our stories in screenwriting. I could see my\u00a0parents\/cousins\/aunties\/uncles\/grandparents in their work. I saw myself. The feedback on each\u00a0individual\u2019s work was also beneficial for me, as it was advice that could be applied widely.<\/p>\n

What I appreciated most about this fellowship was that the Full Circle and Native Lab\u00a0participants are intergenerational, and those relationships I made are similar to those I have\u00a0within my own Indigenous community. It was beautiful to have older mentors and peers to learn\u00a0and grow from.<\/p>\n

My favorite day was the Joan Tewkesbury workshop. She came in and completely shifted my perspective and understanding of my craft. It made me realize there is a sense of healing in channeling pain and discomfort into something beautiful. I reached into certain aspects of my life that I didn\u2019t want to address, but I realized that these memories\/events can be fuel to create something good. It shifted my artistic process as a filmmaker.<\/p>\n

I came into this fellowship not knowing who I was as an artist, but I am sure of myself now. I\u2019m\u00a0really thankful to the team for allowing me to be in a space where I can be seen and visible to\u00a0others and understood.<\/p>\n

Follow Anpa\u2019o Locke @indigebaddie on Twitter, @anpa.o on Instagram<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the Sundance Native Lab having returned to a (hybrid) in-person model for the first time in two years, Filmmaker asked 2022 fellows to reflect on their recent experiences through short diary entries. Read the rest of the 2022 cohort’s responses.\u00a0 Before the fellowship, I was feeling anxious. It\u2019s a new environment with new people, cool\u00a0people. I consider myself introverted, and thus out of my comfort zone. I was still in disbelief that I got chosen for the Full Circle Fellowship; I couldn\u2019t believe that people would want to listen to me. I wasn\u2019t sure of my voice as an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19700,"featured_media":115402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_column":0},"categories":[9363,4],"tags":[23322,11887,15794],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmmakermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmmakermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmmakermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmmakermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmmakermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/filmmakermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115440,"href":"https:\/\/filmmakermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115401\/revisions\/115440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmmakermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmmakermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmmakermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmmakermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}