Adam Piron

Adam PIRON is from the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma and also Mohawk. He is a Southern California-based filmmaker, writer and curator. He is the Director of Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program, where he oversees the organisation’s support for Indigenous filmmakers globally, and a co-founder of COUSIN: a film collective dedicated to supporting Indigenous artists experimenting with and pushing the boundaries of the moving image. As a film programmer, he has served as a member of the Sundance Film Festival’s Short Film Programming Team since 2013 and was previously the Film Curator for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). His films have screened at the New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, MoMA Doc Fortnight, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and various other festivals and programmes. His writing has appeared in the Criterion Collection’s Current, MUBI Notebook, Cinema Scope Magazine, the Metrograph Journal and CNN.

Filmography

(all short) Gùtk’ódàu/Yellow (2019), Halpate (2020, doc), Aht-Kahn-Hain/Time Without End (2021), Sha’var/Yaangna Plays Itself (2022), The Power & The Freedom (2023), Dau:añcut/Moving Along Image (2023), Black Glass (2024)