Education Sundance Institute | Nominations Gotham Open Palm Award | |
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Movies Among Ravens, The Doe Boy, Ibid Similar Russell Friedenberg, Jeri Arredondo, Heather Rae, Christopher Pinkalla, Castille Landon | ||
Interview with heather rae and randy redroad at the 2010 woodstock film festival
Randy Redroad is a Cherokee filmmaker and songwriter. He is best known for his films The Doe Boy (2001) and Among Ravens (2014).
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Early life and education
Redroad grew up in Texas. He moved to New York City in the mid 1980s to pursue filmmaking. He completed a filmmaking workshop supported by Third World Newsreel. Redroad is Cherokee on his mother's side and Irish on his father's.
Film career
Redroad completed the films Cow Tipping: The Militant Indian Waiter (1991) and Haircut Hurts (1992) because of his participation with Third World Newsreel. He was given film directing residency from Sundance Institute in 1994. In the same year, he received the Rockefeller Intercultural Media grant. His film The Doe Boy (2001) was shown at the Sundance Film Festival. Doe Boy is based partly on Redroad's own personal experience. The film's title comes from an incident when he accidentally shot a doe while hunting with his father.
Awards
The Doe Boy received 14 awards, including the Perrier Bubbling Under-First Time Filmmaker award at the Taos Talking Pictures film festival. Redroad also received the Sundance NHK International Filmmaker award and was nominated for the IFP Gotham outstanding directorial debut.