TULSA \u2013\u00a0Cherokee Film is amplifying Native voices on one of the entertainment industry\u2019s most influential stages by hosting a featured panel at South by Southwest 2026, focused on Indigenous storytelling, representation and breaking barriers in Hollywood.<\/p>\n
\u201cSouth by Southwest offers an environment that inspires creatives, showcases innovative content and energizes the industry. It is more than an event; it\u2019s an incubator that celebrates novelty, authenticity and collaboration,\u201d said Jen Loren, senior director of Cherokee Film. \u201cCherokee Film is honored to have the opportunity to explore and share Native perspectives in this space, with hope that it will serve as a conduit for more conversations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGoing Off Script: Filmmaking Through an Indigenous Lens\u201d features Loren alongside industry leaders Erica Tremblay (Seneca-Cayuga), Tom Hanada (Cherokee Nation) and Sydney Freeland (Din\u00e9).\u00a0<\/p>\n
The panel is slated for March 14 from 2:30-3:30 p.m. CST at the Omni Downtown in Austin, Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cherokee Film\u2019s mission is to reclaim Cherokee and Native narratives by increasing representation across film and media. Its ecosystem includes four distinct branches \u2014 Cherokee Film Productions, Cherokee Film Studios, Cherokee Film Commission and Cherokee Film Institute \u2014 all working toward a shared goal of advancing narrative sovereignty while creating economic development within the tribe\u2019s reservation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For more information, please visit\u00a0Cherokee.film<\/a>\u00a0or follow Cherokee Film on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Instagram,<\/a>\u00a0X<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0YouTube.<\/a><\/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":" TULSA \u2013\u00a0Cherokee Film is amplifying Native voices on one of the entertainment industry\u2019s most influential stages by hosting a featured panel at South by Southwest 2026, focused on Indigenous storytelling, representation and breaking barriers in Hollywood. \u201cSouth by Southwest offers an environment that inspires creatives, showcases innovative content and energizes the industry. It is more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2289201,"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":[22220,341174,22221,21799,341177,316628,79061],"class_list":["post-2289200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-arts","tag-cherokee","tag-culture","tag-film","tag-indigenous-peoples-of-north-america","tag-south-by-southwest","tag-the-arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cherokee-Film-to-host-industry-panel-at-South-by-Southwest.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289200","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=2289200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289202,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289200\/revisions\/2289202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2289201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}