Join Film Streams as we welcome award-winning director/producer Valerie Red-Horse Mohl and trailblazing film producer Gale Anne Hurd for a special screening of their film Mankiller as part of our two-day celebration of their careers and collaborative work together. Following the screening, Red-Horse Mohl and Hurd will talk about the film, which marked the third collaboration between Red-Horse Mohl and Hurd. Moderated by Annika K. Johnson, PhD.

About the Film

The story of an American hero and legend, Mankiller examines the legacy of Wilma Mankiller, the Cherokee Nation’s first woman Principal Chief. A post-show Q&A will follow the film, which marked the third collaboration between Red-Horse Mohl and Hurd,

About Gale Anne Hurd

Gale Anne Hurd is a multi-award-winning producer and the founder of Valhalla Entertainment, most recently known for the global cultural phenomenon, Emmy®-winning and record-shattering TV series, The Walking Dead, and its multiple spinoffs, including Fear the Walking Dead, Dead City, Daryl Dixon, and the upcoming The Ones Who Live, among others. Hurd’s feature, The YouTube Effect, is an eye-opening documentary, directed by Alex Winter, was released in the US theatrically by Alamo Drafthouse Films. Her additional producing credits include Mankiller, The Waterdance, and such iconic classic feature films as Aliens, The Abyss, Armageddon, Tremors, Alien Nation, The Ghost and the Darkness, The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

About Valerie Red-Horse Mohl

A filmmaker of Cherokee ancestry, Red-Horse Mohl’s body of work spans over three decades of film and television content creation and production. A graduate of UCLA’s Theater/Film Program, she has produced, directed and written over a dozen award-winning films and television programs including Naturally Native (Sundance Feature), True Whispers: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers (PBS-also with Valhalla/Hurd), Choctaw Code Talkers (PBS-also with Valhalla/Hurd), Pop Hunter’s Dew Drop Inn (PBS), Diversity in the Delta (PBS), My Indian Summer (CBS) and Beauty (NBC).