Show Notes
On this dynamic episode we welcome back award-winning Auntie/Film Director Paige Bethmann (Mohawk/Oneida) to discuss what film looks like when it is led through our Onkwehón:we/Haudenosauenee ways of knowing, being, and doing. Paige is the director of the 2025 breakout film REMAINING NATIVE - which premiered at SXSW and won both Audience and Special Jury Awards there.
REMAINING NATIVE, a coming-of-age documentary told from the perspective of Kutoven (Ku) Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner, struggling to navigate his dream of becoming a collegiate athlete as the memory of his great-grandfather's escape from an Indian boarding school begins to connect past, present, and future.
We first spoke with Paige in 2022 just as she was uprooting from her native New York to Nevada. She spent more than three years in Reno to document Ku’s journey into adulthood, and also embed herself with the community and the reality of life on the land. In 2023, REMAINING NATIVE had been selected to participate as one of the four films in the Sundance Institute Edit and Story Lab.
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