INDIGENOUS FILM SUMMIT
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    • Opening Remarks and Partner Presentations
    • Indigenizing Social Media in 60 Seconds or Less: ​a TikTok Discussion
    • Indigenous Writers Panel
    • Diversity, Representation, & Inclusion: ​What Does It Mean In 2020?
    • One on One with Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
    • Rising Indigenous Storytellers
    • Self-care and Wellness In Film
    • Changing The Colonial Mindset On An Indigenous Film Set
    • Indigenous Peoples In Genre & Pop Culture
    • Indigenous Storytelling Through Independent Film
    • Rising Indigenous Producers
    • Script To Screen: A Producers Journey
    • Indigenous Filmmaking, Post COVID
    • Wonder Women: Indigenous Women in Film
    • One on One with Massey Whiteknife (ICEIS Rain)
    • Just Acting All Deadly: Indigenous Actors In The Industry
    • One on One with Gary “Litefoot” Davis
    • 2020 Partner Presentation
    • 2020 Online Indigenous Film Summit
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Eva Thomas

Eva Thomas is an Indigenous actor, filmmaker and writer. Eva graduated from Arizona State University with degrees in Communication and Broadcasting. After university, she attended the Weber Douglass Dramatic Arts Academy in England and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.  Eva earned a Masters of Arts degree in American Indian Studies from UCLA. She also participated in the ABC-Disney Summer Film & Television Workshop at Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe and the ABC-Disney Television Writers program at IAIA.

In 2016, she was selected for the inaugural imagineNATIVE / Harold Greenberg Fund (HGF) Indigenous Story Editing Mentorship program where she received training in story editing, script reading, story consulting and other areas of feature film development. 

Eva was the Indigenous Story Editor for the 2018 imagineNATIVE / HGF Indigenous Screenwriting Intensive where she worked with Indigenous writers through a year-long development program. 

As a story editor and mentor, Eva has also worked with writers through the Magee TV Diverse Screenwriters Mentorship Program and the Women in Film and Television (WIFT)-Vancouver’s Tricksters and Writers program.

Eva was selected for the 2018 Native American Feature Film Lab in Los Angeles, the 2018 Banff Diversity of Voices Initiative and the 2019 Netflix-Banff Diversity of Voices Initiative.

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  • Home
  • 2020 Schedule
    • Opening Remarks and Partner Presentations
    • Indigenizing Social Media in 60 Seconds or Less: ​a TikTok Discussion
    • Indigenous Writers Panel
    • Diversity, Representation, & Inclusion: ​What Does It Mean In 2020?
    • One on One with Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
    • Rising Indigenous Storytellers
    • Self-care and Wellness In Film
    • Changing The Colonial Mindset On An Indigenous Film Set
    • Indigenous Peoples In Genre & Pop Culture
    • Indigenous Storytelling Through Independent Film
    • Rising Indigenous Producers
    • Script To Screen: A Producers Journey
    • Indigenous Filmmaking, Post COVID
    • Wonder Women: Indigenous Women in Film
    • One on One with Massey Whiteknife (ICEIS Rain)
    • Just Acting All Deadly: Indigenous Actors In The Industry
    • One on One with Gary “Litefoot” Davis
    • 2020 Partner Presentation
    • 2020 Online Indigenous Film Summit
  • About
  • Archive