Education
He attended the University of Oklahoma, where he studied art and film.
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Career
He has directed three feature films and a feature documentary, all of them set in his home state of Oklahoma and concerned primarily with Native American people and content. In 2004, he received a fellowship from the Sundance Institute. In 2006, he received a fellowship from the newly formed United States Artists foundation.
The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it was nominated for the grand jury prize.
Harjo was named best director at the 2007 American Indian Film Festival. Harjo"s second feature, Barking Water, premiered at the 2008 Sundance festival.
Barking Water was named best drama film at the 2009 American Indian Film Festival. Harjo"s first feature documentary, This May Be the Last Time, is based on the story of Harjo"s grandfather, who disappeared in 1962 in the Seminole County town of Sasakwa.
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The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and its distribution rights were subsequently acquired by Administrative Management College/Sundance Channel Global for the Sundance Channel. His third feature film, Mekko, a thriller set in Tulsa, premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2015. Harjo has also directed a number of short-form projects.
His 2009 short film Cepanvkuce Tutcenen (Three Little Boys) was part of the Embargo Collective project commissioned by the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.
He has directed a series of shorts for This Land Press in Tulsa, where Harjo is the staff video director He is also one of the directors of the Cherokee Nation"s monthly television news magazine, Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People.
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Harjo, a member of the Seminole nation who also has Muscogee heritage, was raised in Holdenville, Oklahoma. He was a member of the 2010 Sundance shorts competition jury. Harjo is a founding member of a five-member Native American comedy group, the 1491s.
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