News about John Trudell

Ellen Page, 56-year-old Heather Rae, producer of many films starring actors like Ellen Page, 56-year-old Heather Rae, is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures' Indigenous Alliance and has worked with the Sundance Institute's Native American program. Rae was born in California but raised in Idaho, and it was later recognized for 'Frozen River,' a Sundance Award-winning film that was nominated for an Academy Award and 2005's Trudell, an award-winning documentary that follows influential Native American John Trudell. Rae has been praised for her half-Cherokee roots, named as a top visionary by Variety in 2009 and currently in two of the world's most influential film companies' Native American outfits. More recently, she was hired by the Academy to broker an apology from the academy to Sacheen Littlefeather's estate, the Native American activist who famously opposed Marlon Brando's 1973 Best Actor Oscar in an attempt to draw attention to her and others' plight.