Julianna Brannum
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Documentary filmmaker Julianna Brannum completed her first feature length documentary, “The Creek Runs Red” for public television in 2005. The film was
awarded the 2003 ITVS LINCS grant and received funding from Native American Public Telecommunications and selected to air on PBS’s prime-time series,
Independent Lens, in November 2007.
In 2007, Brannum was selected as a Sundance Institute/Ford Foundation Fellow and has been awarded grants from the Sundance Institute’s Native Initiative,
National Geographic All Roads Funds, ITVS and the Sundance Documentary Fund for her latest documentary in development, “LaDonna Harris: Indian 101”
In April 2008, she was awarded a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Tribeca Film Institute.
In addition, Julianna just wrapped production for one episode in "We Shall Remain", a 5-part series for the Emmy- Award-winning PBS program, American
Experience. The episode looks at the events leading to the siege of Wounded
Knee, SD in 1973 by members of the American Indian Movement and residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Prior to that, Julianna worked as Associate Producer for The Discovery Channel documentary series, “Rise of the Videogame” and as Segment Producer for
LTN’s “Red Light”, a weekly documentary-style program on Los Angeles lifestyles and subcultures.
Ms. Brannum is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and was awarded the 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award for the College of Arts and Sciences.
She is a member of the Quahada band of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma.
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