Nathan Young
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Tribeca All Access® 2008
About
Nathan Young (Pawnee/Delaware/Kiowa) is a multidisciplinary artist working in the mediums of film, documentary, animation, installation and experimental and improvised music. Nathan has recently Produced and Directed the documentary film, Creating Space: Culture and History in Indian Healthcare, a case study of American Indian healthcare. Nathan’s films have screened in international film festivals as well as having been featured in the National Geographic All Roads Film Festival and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Film and Video Festival Nathan is a recipient of the 2006 National Video Resource Media Arts Fellowship and his feature length screenplay Heavy Metal Indians has also recently been selected as a project for the 2007 Sundance Institute’s Native Initiative. He is also a 2007 nominee for the United States Artists Fellowship. Nathan received his Bachelors Degree in Art History from the University of Oklahoma.
Heavy Metal Indians
Donnie Beartrack, a Native American coming of age, crosses paths with a group of strung-out misfits and finds himself in the middle of a collision of naïve ambition and spiritual acrimony that changes each of their lives forever.