Justin Deegan

Indigenous Filmmaker, Cinematographer, Director, Producer

This project is a documentary designed to bring awareness to the epidemic of diabetes throughout Indian Country. Fashion designer Darlene Perkins of Red Lightning Couture uses her fashion shows as a vehicle to bring awareness to this serious Indigenous health crisis. Her newfound Indigenous celebrity alliances join her to raise awareness. 

Another Scar of Genocide: Diabetes in Indian Country

In 1833 and 1834, Karl Bodmer, traveled along the Upper-Missouri as part of the Prince Maximilian expedition. The images that Bodmer sketched and painted are historical art documents that are iconic in present day America. Faces From The Interior, addresses the impact of those inspired images among the direct descendants of the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation. Which, were a few of the many indigenous nations the Prince Maximilian Expedition made contact with.

Faces From The Interior: Director's Cut

Relentless is a short documentary about the Mandan, Hidatsa, & Arikara Nations battle against the opioid epidemic on their reservation. Episode I, covers the tribal nations leadership approach to addressing this devastating issue within their boundaries in North Dakota.

Relentless: The MHA Nation’s Battle Against The Opioid Epidemic Part I

A grandmother. A source of existence. A portal to other worlds. For thousands of years, the Indigenous Peoples of what is now known as North and South Dakota co-existed reciprocally with the Missouri River, its waters offering life while also inspiring legends and languages.

Tahnaanooku'

Explores the life and murder of Annie Mae Aquash, a Mi'kmaq woman from Nova Scotia, Canada whose death in the 1970s went unsolved for almost 30 years.

Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae

Native American survivors of sexual assault fight for tribal sovereignty in order to end the rape of Indigenous women against the backdrop of an ongoing legacy of violent colonization.

Sisters Rising

This evocative meditation draws a disturbing link between the industrial exploitation of Canadian land and violence inflicted on Indigenous women.

Nuuca

Vice travels to Indigenous communities across the Americas to meet people protecting their homelands and rising up against colonization.

Justin Deegan

Indigenous Filmmaker, Cinematographer, Director, Producer

Faces From The Interior: Director's Cut

Another Scar of Genocide: Diabetes ...

Relentless: The MHA Nation’s Battle...

Tahnaanooku'

Vow of Silence: The Assassination o...

Sisters Rising

Nuuca

Rise

Sister's Rising