Frybread Face and Me, the new film by writer/director Billy Luther (Navajo/Hopi/Laguna), is a refreshing Indigenous queer take on the coming-of-age genre, shot in New Mexico with some of today’s hottest emerging and established Diné actors.
Cultures combine our history, traditions and environment. Written and directed by Billy Luther, Frybread Face and Me is a coming of age critically acclaimed Native American dramedy about two Navajo teens from different communities has already won several awards.
Only in Narnia will you find a boy more devoted to a white witch than the Stevie Nicks-loving Benny (Keir Tallman) in indigenous writer/director Billy Luther’s charming coming-of-age story Frybread Face and Me. 1990, San Deigo.
The COVID-19 lockdown era was, in some ways, defined by isolation but also by the power of community – particularly with the rise of racial justice protests after the 2020 police killing of George Floyd.
During summer days spent at grandma’s ranch, reality sinks in by way of dirt, sheep bleating in the distance, and grandma’s hogan waiting for us.
A lot has been said about the year 2020. And many folks may feel like they’d just as soon leave it in the rear-view mirror, given the tumult of that year. So what can a new documentary about that time tell us now? Maybe more than you might think.