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Colleen Thurston | Director Colleen Thurston is an award-winning media producer and documentary filmmaker from Tulsa, Oklahoma. As an Indigenous non-fiction storyteller, her films explore the relationships between humans and the natural world and focus on Native stories and perspectives. She holds an MFA from Montana State University’s Science and Natural History Filmmaking program, where she also earned a graduate certificate in American Indian Studies. Her BA in Media Arts and Anthropology is from the University of Arizona. Colleen has produced work for the Smithsonian Channel, Vox, illumiNATIVE and museums, public television stations, and federal and tribal organizations. She produced and directed short documentaries for four seasons of the Cherokee Nation’s series, “Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People,” earning two Emmy awards for her work on the series. Previous films include Chasing 14,000, SARDIS, and the recently completed Abundance. Her work has screened at international film festivals, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian’s Native Cinema Showcase and the Smithsonian Institution, and been broadcast nationwide. With a background in film programming, Colleen also curates film and storytelling events with an emphasis on Indigenous and decolonial storytelling. Currently the co-Executive Director of the Fayetteville Film Festival, she previously held positions as the Film Programming Assistant at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and was the founding Director of Programming of the Tulsa American Film Festival. She is an Assistant Professor in the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication and teaches documentary studies and film production. Colleen is a 2019-2021 Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellow, a Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Fund Fellow, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation and a seventh generation Oklahoman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1708440638561-QUFU2ZPPX1WEDUFIOEOY/68459d34-9c94-479d-8c0c-7845e0595ceb.png ABOUT - Michelle Lee Svenson | Producer MICHELLE LEE SVENSON (producer) is a Korean and Swedish American freelance film programmer, independent producer and distributor. She studied filmmaking at Boston University’s College of Communications and has since become an advocate for increasing the visibility of minority filmmakers’ voices. She served as festivals producer, programmer and film consultant for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian from 2000 - 2010, during which time she produced over fifteen film festivals, consulted on numerous productions such as PBS’s “We Shall Remain” series and productions by filmmakers Albert Maysles, John Sayles and Donald Ranvaud. She has served on several granting and board committees for Native film initiatives, as well as the Tribeca Film Institute’s All Access program and IFP’s Feature Film project. Since, Michelle has been dedicated to working directly with artists and filmmakers in producing, distributing and marketing their films such as “Goff,” a documentary by Britni Harris, Blackhorse Lowe’s films including his award-winning short “Shimásání” and recent feature “Fukry” (Montreal First Peoples’ Festival Artistic Prize 2020). Michelle also serves as part of the DocLands Documentary Film Festival programming team and is the Artistic Program Producer at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1742243142649-U9C8QTG9FC2SLERMCV68/Britni+Harris.jpg ABOUT - Britni Harris | Associate Producer A multi-tool creative with roles as a producer, director, cinematographer, editor and overall documentary filmmaker. She is passionate about using media and storytelling for educational outreach, generating constructive conversation and empowering voices of change. She was recently the producer for Stacey Abrams for Governor 2022 and during the 2020 election was the lead producer for the voting rights organization Fair Fight Action in Georgia. This work resulted in historic consequences for our country. Her first feature documentary “GOFF” debuted in 2020 and she went on to co-create an outreach campaign “Goff Fest” to spark conversation around preservation. Work has been featured through Lionsgate Entertainment and on ESPN, CNN, PBS, VICE TV, HBO, Food Network, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival and other national and international film festivals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1731088352522-RC3MJNVGYMGMREH07PD9/Stevie-Team-Pic.jpg ABOUT - Stevie Wallace | Associate Producer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1708440723256-OFI7JON7R26IPMEJ1KYA/b7576cad-bc6b-463f-a00d-5d6cdb6f665b.png ABOUT - Charles Elmore | Director of Photography CHARLES ELMORE (Director of Photography) is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker from Tulsa, OK. He has worked in the Tulsa film and video industry since 2000 and has worked on dozens of films, music videos, and commercials. His work has taken him across the United States, as well as to Haiti and Fiji. He has lent his camera work to projects for HGTV, Food Network, CNN, ESPN, Investigation Discovery and most recently on Lee Issac Chung's “Minari,” Sterlin Harjo's “Mekko,” Erika Tremblay's “Little Chief,” and the FX/Hulu breakthrough series “Reservation Dogs.” Additionally, Charles has written and directed two feature-length films and just completed directing a short film, “The Chest” starring Dylan Baker and Becky Ann Baker. Charles is an advocate for film literacy and has pursued this in education as an adjunct professor for the University of Tulsa as well as by providing critical analysis for the publication The Tulsa Voice. When he's not behind a camera, he sometimes tries to run marathons — mostly succeeding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1708440817956-SMN3GBGSSCSMMP7FGRK1/c7a1eabf-077f-4b1c-9bbe-e66e5efa3349.png ABOUT - Gloria Shade | Editor GLORIA SHADE (Editor) is a Cherokee/Diné freelance editor, producer and film researcher from Tulsa, Oklahoma. As a Native working in film, Gloria has contributed to a number of projects specifically focused on exploring indigenous history and peoples. Her work as an editor has appeared on the Emmy Award-winning television series “Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People”. In 2018, Gloria worked with Oklahoma State University’s Oral History Research Program as a co-producer and editor of “Chilocco: Through the Years,” a documentary on the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School which premiered as part of the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority’s (OETA) 2019 National Native American Heritage Month broadcast programming. Most recently, Gloria worked as an assistant editor on the Sundance-supported “Untitled Mvskoke Media” documentary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1708440864412-UTAZZFIHD8H43G451XWR/28c28216-83cb-484a-ac26-c986745dd3f4.png ABOUT - Zach Litwack | Editor ZACH LITWACK (Editor) is a filmmaker based out of Tulsa, OK. He has worked in the film industry and taught filmmaking in Tulsa and Chicago, IL since 2001. His fiction and documentary films have screened at numerous festivals including The Cannes Film Festival and the Kansas City International Film Festival. He has recently begun work as an editor on the independent feature, ”Drowned Land.” He previously worked with FireThief Productions where he directed, produced, and edited various commercial work as well as the PBS program, ”Osiyo: Voices of the Cherokee People,” for which he has earned multiple Heartland Emmy Awards. He is in post-production on the short dark comedy, ”I’m Taking You Home” and in development on the features, ”Lost and Found” and ”Quiet Storm.” Zach is currently the filmmaker-in-residence at Oklahoma State University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1731088580728-24R4HLION41G6VXVPIB2/Janna+Kylla%CC%88stinen.png ABOUT - Janna Kyllästinen | Editor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1708441209217-ST3UJVLO1W22QBTFHSIJ/DROWNED+LAND+FAVION.jpg ABOUT - Ryan Weaver | Sound https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1757722046824-HSHB6FZXZ6DUCUDMYX0W/Amber-Morning-Star-Byars-768x976.jpg ABOUT - Amber Morning Star Byars | Impact Producer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1644028585435-CKIX2RBIL8WBEUWATN7O/Cemetery+Drone+%281%29.png ABOUT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/72f853a4-8392-482a-8cd1-0853cb2f4c5c/Drowned+Land_matriarchs_charles+elmore.png ABOUT - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1644029189431-UWJZVSH3POF94Y3YB5W2/Screen+Shot+2021-03-11+at+11.21.36+PM.png ABOUT - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://drownedland.com/screening-requests daily 0.75 2025-03-12 https://drownedland.com/nda daily 0.75 2025-06-08 https://drownedland.com/featuring daily 0.75 2025-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1751580939061-X9CTT2OLHEF65GRL2E0B/image002.jpg FEATURING - Dr. Kenneth Roberts Originally from Southeast Oklahoma, Kenneth Roberts, Ph.D., is the department chair and professor of chemistry & biochemistry at The University of Tulsa. He specializes in analytical chemistry related to solving biochemical and environmental problems. In particular, Roberts utilizes advanced analytical instrumentation to study freshwater pollution and environmental toxicology. Additionally, Roberts is the president of a grassroots community organization trying to save the Kiamichi River in SE Oklahoma. The name of the organization is the Kiamichi River Legacy Alliance (KRLA). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1751580956646-81ZN3QDYU7MX94B6E0NF/lauren+haygood.jpg FEATURING - Lauren Haygood Lauren Haygood is a geoscientist and science communicator focused on environmental research, water quality, and public outreach. She holds a B.Sc. (2019) and M.Sc. (2021) in Geosciences from The University of Tulsa, where her thesis examined metal cycling in aquatic systems and its impact on local mussels. Now a Ph.D. candidate at Oklahoma State University, she uses geochemical methods to study past environmental conditions. Lauren serves on national and international science committees, contributes to STEM education, and leads a community project addressing water quality in Oklahoma. Her work connects science, policy, and public understanding—advocating for sustainability, water systems, and ocean research while mentoring the next generation of scientists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1751580978086-MJXB639NJN3H4FIA33XP/DL_ss_Water+Protector%28s%29_Charlotte+Leonard_River+Edge_24_cropped.jpg FEATURING - Charlotte Robbins Charlotte Robbins is a Cherokee/Choctaw environmental advocate working in the Kiamichi River Basin in southeastern Oklahoma. As a community liaison, she protects cultural and archaeological sites and promotes sustainable practices along the river. Partnering with the Choctaw Nation and local communities, her work is rooted in care, memory, and a lifelong connection to the water. She believes water is a relative — and that protecting it means protecting the future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1751581158493-1QKKQUFZ9XD2B8C81JZW/Sandy+Stroud_CROPPED_Film+Still+from+Drowned+Land.jpg FEATURING - Sandra Stroud Sandra Stroud has worked with tribal communities in a community-based research capacity for over 25 years, learning that communities will tell you their needs and provide solutions if you only learn to respect and listen to their voices and understand their relationships to their environment. Sandra has been fortunate to work with Indigenous communities from New Zealand to Canada and across the United States. For Sandy, one of the most incredible experiences is helping youth create understandings of who they are in relation to their ancestors and their culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1751581689657-H8LY2TAGYX5JBJS770C8/FAMILY+LEGACY_Johnna+Thurston_Dir+Mother_Drowned+Land+Film_Screen+Grab_cropped.jpg FEATURING - Johnna Thurston Johnna Thurston (Choctaw) is the mother of Drowned Land director Colleen Thurston. Her father, an engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, helped design the dam systems across eastern Oklahoma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1751581735611-U1EH1ZUWDWKWRUT2XAJ1/12+Drowned+Land+Betty+and+Joe+Sardis+Story+%281%29.jpeg FEATURING - Betty & Joe Brown Long-time Sardis residents who maintain the cemetery. They lost their land and recollect their neighbors similar fates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1751582439104-4XNRHJI7P4VECADJ0AG3/jessimcever.jpg FEATURING - Jessi McEver | Moderator, Voices for the Water Jessica “Jessi” McEver belongs to the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and has dedicated her career to uplifting Native American narratives as a producer and culture change strategist. After supporting her tribe as a content creator, Jessi became a founding member of FireThief Productions, an Oklahoma-based, Native American-owned production company where she produced and edited several documentary features, shorts, and series including Love and Fury (Netflix), Chillocco: Through the Years, Osiyo TV and Terlton. Recent work include Katishtya Girl: Madison Hammond, the NWSL’s First Native American Player and Killers of the Flower Moon: An Osage Perspective. As a culture change strategist, Jessi inspires change within Hollywood by creating dynamic opportunities for Native Americans working in media, serving as a consultant on titles including, Echo, providing publicity support for independent filmmakers from marginalized communities, as well as cultivating creative expansion and meaningful inclusion for projects and campaigns. Jessi is a proud co-founder of the Tulsa Film Collective, a non-profit dedicated to nurturing Tulsa's filmmaker community through dynamic community events and skill-enhancing workshops to strengthen connections and sustain the magic of movie-making. Jessi serves her community as an advisor to Circle Cinema, the Indian Territory Film Festival, and Native Reel Cinema Fest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1751582455038-IXQG2HKX8XO972E8RLS4/alexderoin.jpg FEATURING - Alex DeRoin | Panelist, Voices for the Water Alex DeRoin (Osage, Otoe, Pawnee, Blackfeet; she/he/they) is a Two Spirit artist, writer, and community organizer based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Their interdisciplinary practice centers on Indigenous relationality and collective liberation, with visual, textual, and collaborative works that reflect themes of land, gender, and sovereignty. Through blending Neo-Dada aesthetics with Land Back and rematriation frameworks, Alex developed the concept of “Lan,” which seeks to close the gap between art and ceremony through playful iconoclasm. DeRoin is co-editor of Water Zine, a community publication focused on Osage water sovereignty and cultural connection, and serves on the council of the Tulsa Two Spirit Society. Their work has been exhibited in Tulsa at TAC Gallery and Positive Space, and they regularly speak at community events and rallies across the region. Alex’s reflections on healing and kinship with land and water are central to their ongoing practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1751582477144-6YZQZVZ6FVRBS4TMKYV7/LukenbaughHeadshotTAF.jpg FEATURING - Melissa Lukenbaugh | Panelist, Voices for the Water Panel Melissa Lukenbaugh is a Tulsa-based photojournalist and documentarian whose interdisciplinary work bridges qualitative research, visual storytelling, and environmental policy. She holds a BA in English Literature from Oklahoma State University, documentary filmmaking credentials from the Duke Center for Documentary Studies, and a Master’s in International Development with a focus on Global Environmental Change and Adaptation from the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School. Her decade-long documentary work on the HIV/AIDS pandemic took her across Ethiopia, South Africa, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Thailand. Currently, Melissa works closely with local organizations and community leaders on conservation and sustainability issues in Oklahoma, with a focus on Tulsa and the Arkansas River corridor. Her work explores the impacts of legacy oil and gas activity on land and water systems, and the potential for adaptation and innovation in environmental stewardship. Through still and moving images, she documents how communities reimagine their relationship with the natural world—placing storytelling at the center of resilience, health, and equity. Melissa is a 2025-2027 Tulsa Artist Fellowship Awardee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1751582490451-F4RAB0U9G6HMMTALBWPT/molly+bullock.jpg FEATURING - Molly Bullock | Panelist, Voices for the Water Molly Bullock is a Tulsa-based investigative journalist, writer, and editor whose work focuses on environmental justice, infrastructure, and civic life. She is the founder of Watershed, an independent journalism project examining the Arkansas River and water management in the Tulsa region. Bullock previously served as Managing and Digital Editor of The Tulsa Voice, where she helped shape the publication’s focus on high-impact, civic-minded storytelling. She holds a Master’s degree in International Journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism, and her reporting has appeared in This Land, The Weather Channel, LIFE’s Vintage Newsmagazine, and others. As co-founder of PROOF., a writing and editorial services company, she works with a range of clients and allocates a portion of company profits to literacy programs and independent journalism. Her background also includes qualitative research in Jordan, religion reporting databases, and textual analysis of global fashion media. Across projects, her work emphasizes public accountability, environmental urgency, and accessible storytelling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1751668642990-FSCHS7OO8A946ASCNBW6/Aimee+Inglis+cropped.jpg FEATURING - Aimee Inglis | Panelist, Voices for the Water Aimee Inglis is a citizen of the Osage Nation born and raised in Anaheim, California, near the Santa Ana (Wanaawna) River, and currently living in the heart of the Osage Nation in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. She has worked in social movement organizations for housing and climate justice for fifteen years, has an MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts, and was a fellow with Indigenous Nations Poets. Her writing has appeared in Under a Warm Green Linden, Anaheim Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, About Place, Forging, and in the Osage Relationship to Water community zine co-edited by her and Alex DeRoin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1751584147846-3UIDJYT3NH3EZ25YIRAV/KalynFay-2+CROPPED.jpg FEATURING - Kalyn Fay | Musician/Singer, Drowned Land Reception Kalyn Fay (Cherokee Nation, Muscogee descent) is a songwriter and musician from Oklahoma, who fosters an additional interdisciplinary practice that interweaves visual arts, curation, and education. Born and raised in rural Oklahoma between Cherokee, Muscogee, and Osage territories, they are deeply rooted in their nuanced relationship to Oklahoma, and their musical practice is a reflection of that influence. Focusing on self-location, community, collaboration, and empathy, Kalyn sees their music as a way to lean into personal and shared narratives. Their songs embed Indigenous understandings associated with community and environment, navigatings the ways in which we all intersect with the hopes of building bridges of understanding between. Kalyn Fay’s music is “for you, for me, for us, for we.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1751668773834-H4GN0JKWHA2DPXY9CL2I/OK-Mag-Nico_72dpi.jpg FEATURING - Burning Cedar Sovereign Wellness | Caterer, Drowned Land Reception Burning Cedar Sovereign Wellness is a 100% Native women-led and community driven non-profit organization dedicated to addressing socioeconomic disparities, health crises, and cultural disconnection affecting Indigenous communities by re-establishing ancestral foodways, wellness practices, and traditional medicine, educating future generations of Indigenous cooks, supporting Indigenous food producers, teaching sustainable and environmentally restorative practices, and providing resources for our people to improve their spiritual, mental, emotional and physical health through ancestral ways of knowing. Founded by Executive Director, Nico Albert Williams (ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ Cherokee Nation). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e60331a33d334ec9047a92/1752268948500-TL1BFQFUJSD3UZUBE9BN/Untitled%2B%252817%2529.png FEATURING - Susan Arkeketa | Film Moderator Susan has over 45 years of experience working with Tribal Nations and native organizations on national, state, and local levels. She has worked as an attorney, administrator, manager, educator, media specialist, board member, journalist, community organizer, judge, editor, writer, and native advocate. From the Muscogee people, Susan is the daughter of the Katcv (Tiger) clan and from the Otoe-Missouria people, she is the daughter of the Che (Buffalo) clan. She was born and raised in Tulsa. She serves on the board of the Tulsa Area Arkansas River.