AFS Film: Daughter of a Lost Bird
Kendra Mylnechuk Potter is a theatre artist and filmmaker currently based in Missoula, MT, and an enrolled citizen of the Lummi Nation. Her film performances have screened at Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, NY Human Rights Watch, and other festivals around the world. She developed a theatre and storytelling program at N’Kwusm Salish language school with William Yellowrobe, and has created and implemented curriculum for Missoula County Public School’s Sparks program on Native American Studies using theatre in education techniques, and has presented work as a keynote and panelist at national and international conferences on personal storytelling, race, creative writing, Native representation, and literary study. The New York Times has called her “a skilled collaborator.”