INTERTRIBAL ENTERTAINMENT
Workforce Development for the Creative Spirit of American Indian Filmmakers
- Updated July 5, 2012.
- Tomorrow is the deadline to submit to LA Shorts Fest.
- Latest opportunities, and news from Blue Corn Corner here.
- Breaking News: The InterTribal Entertainment-produced, award-winning short "Search for the World's Best Indian Taco," is now available by donating to the Southern California Indian Center. Information here.
- The short films from the first two years of Creative Spirit (including "Two Spirits, One Journey" with Alex Meraz) are now available by donating to the Southern California Indian Center. Information here.
- KCET-TV in Los Angeles celebrated the 2010 American Indian Heritage Month with recognition of local Indian community leaders. Four short profiles of the year's honorees were produced by ITE director James Lujan and aired on KCET during the month of November and now can be viewed on the KCET website.
InterTribal Entertainment (ITE) is a multimedia training and production initiative of Southern California Indian Center, Inc. (SCIC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization which, since 1968, has been serving the urban American Indian population of Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties. ITE is funded primarily by the U.S. Department of Labor's Workforce Investment Act Section 166. ITE was founded in 2000 by legendary actor and recording artist Floyd Red Crow Westerman.
ITE's primary objectives are:
- To provide workforce training and employment opportunities for Native Americans pursuing careers in the entertainment industry.
- To develop, produce and market film, television and multimedia projects which contribute to a greater understanding of the American Indian experience.
ITE's efforts are driven by SCIC Planner and ITE Director James Lujan (Taos Pueblo) who brings twenty years of experience in film production and training.
Full Service Production Facility
InterTribal Entertainment is fully equipped with the latest high-definition digital video camera and editing equipment to provide your business or organization with production services such as PSAs, training videos, commercials and corporate videos at affordable rates. See some of ITE's past commissioned work here.
CURRENT PROJECTS
- The Creative Spirit Initiative to identify, train and promote beginning, emerging and established Native talent.
- Development of pilots for a sitcom and a dramatic series.
- Development and production of a PSA for the Community of Practice website for Indian and Native American workforce development programs.
- A partnership with the VSA Arts of New Mexico's North Fourth Art Center for replicating the Creative Spirit program in New Mexico as part of the Two Worlds Native Film and Theater program.
- A collaboration with FOX Diversity's American Indian Summer Institute.
- A collaboration with KCET-TV Los Angeles in the production of 2010 American Indian Heritage Month programming.
- Continuing development of feature film and television projects.