{"id":1950534,"date":"2025-08-09T02:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T02:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1950534"},"modified":"2025-08-09T02:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T02:01:18","slug":"from-script-to-screen-cherokee-film-showcases-new-pathways-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/from-script-to-screen-cherokee-film-showcases-new-pathways-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"From script to screen: Cherokee Film showcases new pathways | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TAHLEQUAH \u2013 This Cherokee National Holiday, Cherokee Film is stepping off the set and into the crowd \u2014 ready to answer questions, share opportunities, and spark new stories.<\/p>\n

Under Cherokee Film are four branches that \u201cwork symbiotically to innovate narrative sovereignty,\u201d according to\u00a0cherokee.film<\/a>. Those include the Cherokee Film Commission, Cherokee Film Productions, Cherokee Film Studios and Cherokee Film Institute.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cherokee Film was\u00a0launched in 2023<\/a>\u00a0to expand and reorganize its filmmaking ecosystem, aimed at creating better representation and building on the tribe\u2019s efforts to become a film and media productions hub.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Loren added that at the Cherokee National Holiday, Cherokee Film is present in the community for people who want more information.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really here to just answer questions and be in the community, take pictures with people and that\u2019s it,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A focus of Cherokee Film at the\u00a0Cherokee National Holiday<\/a>\u00a0will be to provide information about the\u00a0Cherokee Film Institute<\/a>, launched in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The institute is a tribally-operated film school that recently graduated its first cohort of 28 students who earned program certificates.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re getting information out there about what the institute is, who can apply, when, how people enroll, when it happens, what classes there are and then (answer) any other questions,\u201d Loren said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The institute has students taking introductory courses to the filming industry such as Intro to Industry, Intro to Production Office, Intro to Location Management and Intro to Camera Basics.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are essentially teaching the basics of what you need to know to get into the film industry,\u201d she said. \u201cIf we want to get more Native representation in the industry, then we have to train our Native Americans to be ready for that first job.\u201d<\/p>\n

The institute welcomes anyone over 18 years of age to apply.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In June, the tribe declared the Cherokee Nation reservation as\u00a0Film Ready<\/a>, which aims to attract more film and TV productions to the reservation.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of communities and cities will designate themselves as film friendly. What that means is that your community and stakeholders are educated on what it takes to welcome a film or TV show into your jurisdictions,\u201d Loren explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She said when productions come in, there will already be protocols in place for filming for things like streets being shut down or permits that are needed for filming in certain areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, Cherokee Nation, as an exercise of our tribal sovereignty, designated the Cherokee Nation as a film ready reservation, meaning that we have gone through all the steps necessary to welcome any size film or television show into the Cherokee Nation, where they know that we will be able to take care of things in a quick and orderly manner to make the business of film and TV run smoothly,\u201d Loren said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With the local interest becoming more apparent, the hope is to entice more Native filmmakers who can take their first steps into the film and TV industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore Cherokee Film existed, I don\u2019t know how many people thought that there was a career for them in media and storytelling,\u201d Loren said. \u201cOur hope has always been that through all of our initiatives and creating this ecosystem, that more people will see a space for themselves \u2026 that they start telling stories that increases Native representation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.cherokeephoenix.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TAHLEQUAH \u2013 This Cherokee National Holiday, Cherokee Film is stepping off the set and into the crowd \u2014 ready to answer questions, share opportunities, and spark new stories. Under Cherokee Film are four branches that \u201cwork symbiotically to innovate narrative sovereignty,\u201d according to\u00a0cherokee.film. Those include the Cherokee Film Commission, Cherokee Film Productions, Cherokee Film Studios […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1950535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[341174,341173,341172,341182,341177,341179,341178,341175,341176,341180,341181,25432],"class_list":["post-1950534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-cherokee","tag-cherokee-nation","tag-indian-reservation","tag-indigenous-law","tag-indigenous-peoples-of-north-america","tag-indigenous-peoples-of-the-americas","tag-native-american-law","tag-native-american-tribes","tag-society-of-the-united-states","tag-tribal-sovereignty-in-the-united-states","tag-tribes","tag-united-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/From-script-to-screen-Cherokee-Film-showcases-new-pathways.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1950535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}