
Changing Nations, Changing Generations: PJ Raval’s Who We Become
When someone says that they are first generation, they generally mean that they moved to the States. But PJ Raval has a different way of looking at it.
When someone says that they are first generation, they generally mean that they moved to the States. But PJ Raval has a different way of looking at it.
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.