Portrait of Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso. Ivey looks away from the camera, with braided hair and a t-shirt. In the back there are columns with posters pasted that protest the sale of Native land.
Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso
Photo courtesy Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso
Director

Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso (she/her) is an award-winning queer Navajo filmmaker and a Firelight Media Documentary Filmmaker Lab fellow. She started making films at the age of 9, through the Native youth project Outta Your Backpack Media. At the age of 13, she made the award-winning fiction film In the Footsteps of Yellow Woman, based on the true story of her great-great-great-grandmother Yellow Woman, who lived through the Navajo Long Walk of 1864-1868. The film was screened in over 90 film festivals internationally and won 11 awards. Ivey Camille continued to refine her filmmaking craft with a full scholarship at Idyllwild Arts Academy in California. She later returned home to work on films in her community in the Navajo Nation. At the age of 19, Ivey Camille began to work on Powerlands, her first feature.

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