Randy Redroad is a film director, film editor, writer and songwriter. He is best known for his films The Doe Boy (2001) and Among Ravens (2014).
Early life and education edit
Redroad was born Randolph Kendall Snapp on Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, IL., where his father was temporarily stationed for flight training. His family returned to Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock, TX. two weeks after he was born. He moved to New York City in the mid 1980s, where he worked as a bike messenger and, later, a waiter, eventually becoming interested in filmmaking, because it was the one art form that contained all the others. Redroad dropped out of college after two years, and signed up for a ten-month filmmaking workshop for people of color at Third World Newsreel.[1] Redroad is Indigenous on his mother's side and Scottish on his father's.[2]
Film career edit
Redroad completed the films Cow Tipping: The Militant Indian Waiter (1991) and Haircuts Hurt (1992) because of his participation with Third World Newsreel. He was given film directing residency from Sundance Institute in 1994. In the same year, he received the Rockefeller Intercultural Media grant, and a New York State Council For The Arts grant. He used the money to make his award winning short film "High Horse", about urban Indians living in New York City. His first feature film The Doe Boy (2001) was shown at the Sundance Film Festival.[1] Doe Boy is based partly on Randy's own personal experience. The film's title comes from an incident when he accidentally shot a doe while hunting with a "buck only" license with his father.[3]
Redroad is a founding member of the award-winning StyleHorse Collective, a group of indigenous artists who work with tribal organizations to create inspiring and educational film and video projects. StyleHorse Collective are the creators of the popular Powwow Sweat series and the award-winning music video "We Shall Remain."
Awards edit
The Doe Boy received 14 awards, including the Perrier Bubbling Under-First Time Filmmaker award at the Taos Talking Pictures film festival. Redroad also received the Sundance NHK International Filmmaker award and was nominated for the IFP Gotham outstanding directorial debut.[4] "The Infiltrators" won both the Audience and Innovator Awards at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
Selected filmography edit
- Cow Tipping: The Militant Indian Waiter (1991)
- Haircuts Hurt (1992)
- High Horse (1994)
- The Doe Boy (2001)
- Moccasin Flats (2003)
- 133 Skyway (2006)
- Out Of The Blue (2007)
- Ibid (2008)
- First Circle (2010)
- Earth Meets Wind (2011)
- Beautiful Wave (2012)
- Among Ravens (2014)
- We Shall Remain (2014)
- Powwow Sweat (2015)
- Wind Walkers (2015)
- Everybody Has An Andy Dick Story (2016)
- Edge Of The World (2019)
- The Infiltrators (2019)
- Being Michelle (2022 )
References edit
- ^ a b Singer, Beverly R. (2001). Wiping the War Paint off the Lens: Native American Video and Film. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 53–54. ISBN 9780816631605.
- ^ Barker, Deborah; McKee, Kathryn B (2011). American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary. Athens: University of Georgia Press. p. 261. ISBN 9780820337241. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ^ Hoffman, Elizabeth DeLaney (2012). American Indians and Popular Culture: Media, sports, and politics. Praeger: Santa Barbara. p. 95. ISBN 9780313379918. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ^ Fairbanks Molin, Paulette; Hirschfelder, Arlene B (2012). The extraordinary book of Native American lists. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 367. ISBN 9780810877092.