Tule Films

Woodrow Hunt is a Klamath, Modoc, and Cherokee filmmaker from Portland, Oregon who has been making films for over ten years. Woodrow began creating films with businesses around Portland but desired to work within his community so he founded Tule Films to work solely with Tribes, Native businesses and organizations on projects which work directly with the Native community. The first projects Tule Films worked on were centered on education including collaboration with the Western States Center to create an informational video for Oregon Senate Bill 13: Tribal History Shared History. Tule Films has also worked with the Oregon Native American Chamber in promoting Native-owned businesses and the Portland Indigenous Marketplace. Tule Films has also worked with non-profits such as the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians and most recently Confluence.

Confluence connects people to the history, living cultures, and ecology of the Columbia River system through indigenous voices. Tule Films and Confluence came together to create a series of short documentaries which share personal stories and insights about the history, culture, and ecology of the land and its people. Woodrow views the videos as a way for students to hear and listen to Indigenous voices telling their stories. The videos do not attempt to teach specific facts about indigenous people instead they bring Native voices into the classroom so the videos can work in tandem with the curriculum and its educators.

A screening of the Stories from the River series will take place on February 6th at the Portland Art Museum in the Whitsell Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.