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We Are Still Here

In a powerful story of resilience and survival, Otgadahe Whitman-Fox, a First Nations Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara woman from North Dakota, re-enacts the true story of her grandmother. Wracked with fever from small pox caught from infected blankets, she is left behind so that her tribe could survive. Dragging herself to be submerged into the icy waters of the river, she calls on mother earth, and survives to rejoin her tribe, renewed and strong.

  • Otgadahe Whitman-Fox
    Director
  • Otgadahe Whitman-Fox
    Writer
  • Lliane Clarke
    Producer
  • Kaye Tuckerman
    Producer
  • Otgadahe Whitman-Fox
    Producer
  • Laura Patinkin
    Producer
  • Sally Paridis
    Producer
  • Otgadahe Whitman-Fox
    Key Cast
  • Elizabeth Jigalin
    Music
  • Rebeca Durán
    Director of Photography
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 56 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 1, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Otgadahe Whitman-Fox

Otgadahe Whitman-Fox is a board member at The New Mexico Women in Film. Otgadahe works in front of and behind the camera as an actress and producer. She has worked with many film festivals in New Mexico and has accompanied The Women in Film & Television International to the Cannes Film Festival in 2018 & 2019. Otgadahe Whitman-Fox is Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara from The Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota and advocates to tell the real storylines for Natives in the film industry. She is a writer, director and producer with Voices of Women.

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