October 2006
 Ramona
Emerson (Navajo) is currently directing A Return
Home, which was one of three winners in the 2007 New Mexico
Governor's Cup Short Documentary Competition. She is the director
of The Last Trek and The Backroad, which was shot
in 24 hours for the Flicks on 66 Wild West Digital Shootout 2000,
and won the Spirit Award for Best Student Work at the Indian Summer
Film Festival in 2003. Emerson is the co-founder of Rezolution
Films, with Kelly Byars (Choctaw). Emerson also works as an editor
and director of photography for other independent productions.
She is the video production manager for Goffe Visual Services,
a firm specializing in providing legal evidence through photographic
and video documentation. She has provided video documentation
for indigenous groups, documenting the King Island Preservation
Project in Anchorage, Alaska, and the 2000 Navajo Nation Behavioral
Health Summit in Shiprock, New Mexico. Emerson lives in Albuquerque,
where she received a BA in Media Arts from the University of New
Mexico.
Screened by NMAI
Image credit:
Ramona Emerson - courtesy of the filmmaker
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