Julianna Brannum

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Julianna Brannum

Julianna Brannum is a Comanche documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She co-directed and co-produced "The Creek Runs Red", a one hour film that aired on the PBS series, Independent Lens in 2007. She has also co-produced an episode for the PBS American Experience series, "We Shall Remain", about the siege of Wounded Knee, SD in 1973. Currently, She is in production on a film about Native rights activist, LaDonna Harris. In addition to these projects, she has worked on shows for A&E, Discovery Channel and LTN Los Angeles and worked as a film programmer for AFI FEST and the Los Angeles Film Festival.

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Filmmaker
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Comanche
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Blog Series:

Rarely a day goes by where I don’t thank the forces of social networking and how it has helped my film along in many ways. I credit Facebook- without hesitation- for bringing in thousands of dollars to my fundraising campaign on Kickstarter this past June from one single email plea to my friends, family and colleagues.

Blog Series:

$15,0000. That was the magic number I had come up with. My documentary, “LaDonna Harris: Indian 101” had come to a complete halt when my funds dried up and I needed to get it finished. I estimated that I need $50k to deliver the final cut to submit to public television, but it seemed impossible to try to raise that amount in 30 days, so I decided to go for a more reasonable $15k. I saw the success my other filmmaker friends had with their fundraising campaigns on Kickstarter.com and thought I’d go for it. Here’s how it all went down…

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