“Frybread Face & Me” is a semi-autobiographical “Indigenous coming-of-age” story written and directed by means of Billy Luther.
The tale follows a 12-year-old boy named Benny who is distributed to a Navajo reservation to reside along with his grandmother towards his will. Then again, the revel in each shall we him attach along with his circle of relatives in addition to is helping him get in contact along with his Indigenous tradition (by the use of Closing date). Benny spends a lot of the movie operating on his grandmother’s Arizona ranch herding sheep along his cousin, Fry (by the use of Selection).
The undertaking was once one among 10 which was once decided on for the 2020 Sundance Institute Administrators and Screenwriters Labs, of which Luther is a graduate.
Like Luther’s different initiatives, “Frybread Face & Me” will discover subject matters of Indigenous id, which has historically been underrepresented in Hollywood. His first movie was once the documentary “Omit Navajo,” a couple of lady competing in a Navajo good looks competition, which premiered on the 2007 Sundance Movie Pageant. That was once adopted by means of the 2011 documentary function “Grasp,” which explores the standard Grasp Day noticed on villages within the Laguna Pueblo reservation, when citizens throw meals and water from their rooftops to other people status under (by the use of IMDB). In 2018, he directed the webseries “alter-NATIVE” for PBS’ Indie Lens StoryCast.
