Julianna Brannum

Julianna Brannum is a documentary filmmaker based in Oklahoma. She was director/producer of the PBS documentary LaDonna Harris: Indian 101 for which she won fellowships from the Sundance Institute/Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation/Tribeca Film Institute. She was producer of the Independent Lens documentary, Conscience Point, series producer on the 2018 Emmy-nominated PBS series, Native America, consulting producer for Ken Burns’ The American Buffalo and producer of Through the Repellent Fence, which screened at MoMA and SXSW. She also served as co-producer for Stanley Nelson’s We Shall Remain: Wounded Knee. Brannum made her directorial debut with The Creek Runs Red, which aired on Independent Lens in 2007. She also directed Homecoming which is screening as a part of the inaugural Indigenous Storytellers shorts program at Mountainfilm 2024. She is a citizen of the Quahada band of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma.