(2018)

Yugumalleq is at the Museum of Contemporary Native Art in Sante Fe, New Mexico! Our hard work in summer 2013 has paid off. Thank you to Maya Salganek for making the museum happen.

Yugumalleq has been translated into Russian. It has been to an international film festival. It has been on three PBS television stations that cover an area the size of the US. It has been in several US film festivals and now it's at a museum.

Thank you Sierra Daughtry, Seth Walker, Junior, NanCelia Stokes and Yaari Walker for graciously acting in it. Thank you NanCelia and Jim Stokes for the use of your place and your oven. Thank you Dylan Welch for getting our onset sound! Thank you Josh for putting up with me while editing. Thank you so much Molly Wilson for without you this would not be a reality! Thank you.

This short was made possible because Vision Maker Media took a chance and gave me an internship at the Public Broadcasting Station KAKM in Anchorage, Alaska. I trekked 350 miles to be there. My friends Suz and Daniel Bedwell let me use their RV for 10 weeks while at the station. I brought all of my kids and all of my dogs to spend the summer in Eagle River at my sisters property.

At the station I handled the switching board aka the production board while producing the weather program Alaska Weather, as well as running camera for news roundtables and interviews. I sat in on radio and television meetings. It was a learning process that was absolutely amazing and breath taking.

I approached Pat Yack, the station manager at the time, to ask if it would be possible to make a short. He was on board almost at once but I had to find the grant. Hello, Graduate Initiative grant! The short was made for very little outlay of money but so much in kind that I couldn't begin to express my gratitude.

And that's the Oscar speech I have been wanting to give for so long. Thank you so much for putting up with me and mine.

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