Bring Them Home

Director Statement

Ivan MacDonald (Blackfeet) is an Emmy winning filmmaker based in Montana. His most recent project Murder in Bighorn premiered at the 2023 Sundance film festival aired nationally on Showtime. It was recently nominated for an independent spiritaward. He is an inaugural fellow for the Netflix and Illuminative Producers Fellowship and is also inaugural recipient of the Hulu and Firelight Kindling Fund.

Ivy MacDonald (Blackfeet) is a director, producer, screenplay writer and cinematographer based in Montana. She won an Emmy for her producing work onBlackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible for ESPN and her first docuseries Murder in Big Horn, which she produced, premiered at 2023 Sundance Film Festival and broad cast nationally on Showtime. She was a part of the Fourth World Media Fellow for TraceyRector’s indigenous filmmaker program and is currently a part of the Firelight MediaDocumentary Lab

Daniel Glick has directed and produced a wide range of narrative and documentary shorts, commercials, web series and more. His first feature documentary film, A Place to Stand (2016), the true story of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, has been called“inspiring” (Booklist), “gutsy” (Library Journal) and “compelling” (Santa Fe NewMexican). In 2016, he completed Our Last Refuge which tells the story of theBadger-Two Medicine, the sacred homeland of the Blackfeet, and the 35-year struggle to protect it from oil and gas exploration. It was this film that led him to connect with the Blackfeet Buffalo Program.