A black and white portrait of filmmaker Brooke Pepion Swaney. A young woman with shoulder length dark hair looks intently at the camera. She wears a collared shirt and a crew neck sweater over it.
Brooke Pepion Swaney
Photo courtesy Brooke Pepion Swaney
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Brooke Pepion Swaney works to tell contemporary Native Stories. Her first feature documentary Daughter of a Lost Bird (Vision Maker Media/CPB) is beginning its festival circuit and most recently and notably, she made The Black List’s Inaugural Indigenous List in 2020 with Tinder on the Rez, along with her co-writer and friend Angela Tucker. When not working in the film industry, Brooke shares her skills with her screenwriting students as a Faculty Mentor at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ Low Residency MFA program. Brooke is an enrolled citizen of the Blackfeet Nation and a Bitterroot Salish descendent of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Brooke likes bitmojis, living in Montana, and her special needs dog Schoko.

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Daniel A. Nelson
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