When I started screening Pow! at film festivals in March, I couldn’t have imagined that we’d get this kind of love. We’re on the same end of year best of list as KPop Demon Hunters! Thank you to @hanhonymous.bsky.social and @salon.com for the shoutout and for everyone who watched our little film!

Last week I was on the fantastic @pastduepodcast.com with @anamariecox.bsky.social and @mike-eagle.bsky.social ! We get into representation, writing, and the struggles of working in entertainment and telling stories the right way while also paying your bills. Listen to it on your favorite app!

This week, the Oscars shortlist for Best Animated Short Film was announced and Pow! was not on it. And that’s okay! My goal with Pow! wasn’t to win an Oscar, it was to show that a Native made animated short film could compete at the highest levels of animation.

such a sweet little animated film everyone should check out! i love this so much!! 🥹🫶🏻 well done @joeytainment.bsky.social & crew ✨

Tomorrow, The Academy will announce their shortlist for the various Oscars categories. Touring Pow! around festivals this year, I’ve seen so many fantastic films. I wanted to shout out some of my favorites that I would love to see receive recognition and are worth seeking out!

Quyana for all the love! Now available on FNX. Be sure to consider this for a nomination! Uncle Hulk and Mr. Peltier both give it enthusiastic thumbs up.

Happy anniversary to @joeytainment.bsky.social , the love of my life! We’ve been together for 3 years and it’s been an adventure across the globe and across Los Angeles where we live. I’m so proud of him for his amazing work this year (and every year)!

Today is @goldie.bsky.social and I’s three year anniversary! There’s no one I’d rather travel with, vent to or pet cats with. Goldie is so smart, talented, beautiful and delightful. A+ person. A+ girlfriend and A+ roommate. A great way to celebrate our anniversary is to buy her book!

My heart is so full seeing all the love Pow! is getting from film festivals! - 60+ Festival Selections - 14 Awards - Dozens of screenings for tribal communities Thank you to everyone who brought our little animated powwow into your cities and communities. Ya'll are the best!

FYC - Pow! - Best Animated Short One of the things I’m most proud of with Pow! is our ledger art inspired flashback sequence. It’s the heart of the film and artist and Cherokee tribal member Morgan Thompson knocked it out of the park! I talk about it in this clip from “Behind The Powwow” on FNX.

FYC - Pow! - Best Animated Short With Pow!’s release on FNX, we also released “Behind The Powwow”, a free Making Of featurette going into all the work that went into making Pow! authentically, with Native folks at the forefront. Here’s a clip!

Thank you to Keyframe Magazine and my friends at The @animationguild.bsky.social for including Pow! in their Animation short film Oscars race coverage! Oscars voting started this week for the Best Animated Short category and I’m so happy to see all the love Pow! is getting!

Leonard Peltier loves Pow! Thank you to Nick Tilsen at @ndncollective.bsky.social and @markruffalo.bsky.social for joining us in our Pow! Twitch stream and for Nick for sharing legendary Native activist Leonard Peltier’s reactions to Pow!. This is BEYOND humbling! FYC - Pow! - Best Animated Short

This Tuesday, 12/9 watch me chat with Amplifier about our Pow! teacher’s toolkit! It’s been so cool to use this film to educate kids about the modern experiences of Native folks. Come, watch us discuss Pow! and all the work Amplifier is doing to give teachers much needed support!

DAAAAAANG!!! The Great White Ruffalo giving you the uncle bump?!?!?! @joeytainment.bsky.social you deserve all this.

For Your Consideration - Pow! - Best Animated Short Film And don’t just take it from me, take it from 4x Academy Award nominated actor, passionate ally to Native American people and certified uncle @markruffalo.bsky.social !

Come join us for a free FYC screening in Los Angeles of the films Pow!, Tiger and Courage followed by a Q & A with the teams behind these films! We’re screening tomorrow, December 6th @ 6pm and it’s being organized by the cool folks at If Not Us Then Who? Come through and support dope Native film!

CONGRATULATIONS, @joeytainment.bsky.social!!! Pow! is so so so so good. 🥹 For anyone who hasn't seen it, yet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOTu...

I was just on a stream with @markruffalo.bsky.social, @ndncollective.bsky.social and some dope Indigenous streamers and allies, watched live by 1000s of people all saying nice things about Pow! and cheering us on in our awards campaign. It’s hard to predict the future, but the present is very cool!

Thanks @markruffalo.bsky.social ! This is so cool!!

We’re closing out the year with three Pow! film festival selections this month! 12/6 - Anchorage International Film Festival - Alaska 12/6 - Los Angeles Animation Festival - Los Angeles 12/13 - Family Dance Film Festival - Bay Area Come through!

THIS FRIDAY I’m co-hosting a Twitch stream with @shaunabaker.bsky.social featuring special guest @markruffalo.bsky.social !! We’ll be talking about Native activism, playing Among Us and streaming my film POW! on the Twitch front page! Celebrate Native gamers with Indigenous streamers and allies!

20,000 teachers are using Pow! as a teaching tool and I am THRILLED! I partnered with Amplifier to distribute a lesson plan using Pow! as an easy in point to teach kids about modern Native culture. Kadin Mills from @npr.org 's All Things Considered even did a news story about it! Check it out!

Cowlitz comedian Joey Clift has a new animated short–Pow! follows a young Native kid at a bustling intertribal powwow. The short includes lessons in Native activism and even uses actual audio from the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Watch it here:

Cute little short film made by Indigenous animators like Joey Clift. It made me laugh but it's also poignant. Worth the watch. youtu.be/dOTuVqdwu8Y?...

Reminder that this great little short by @joeytainment.bsky.social is out there for you to see and enjoy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOTu...

I’ve been such a fan of all the work @ndncollective.bsky.social has done for Native people over the past few years, so it was a joy to fly out to South Dakota to guest on their LandBack For The People podcast to talk about Pow!, Native activism and the Landback movement. Check it out!

Timing never matched for me to catch a screening, glad I could finally watch POW! today. Now you can, and should, too.

It made me tear up...in a good way.

y'all better watch this today!! it's such a wonderful piece, full of heart and understanding for pain. share with your friends and family! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOTu...

FINALLYYYYYYYY

This is such a charming and heartfelt animation, please take a few minutes to check it out!

Take nine minutes and watch this (it made me giggle multiple times and then I cried at another point)

POW is a wonderful animated short by @joeytainment.bsky.social about a Native American boy who is brought to a powwow by his family, but all he wants to do there is charge his game console. You have a favorite Christmas special. Make POW your yearly Thanksgiving watch. youtu.be/dOTuVqdwu8Y

For Thanksgiving dinner all Natives should be allowed to take an extra serving of turkey and use all the gravy we want!

Deep fried handhelds pair well with cultural sovereignty. 🦃

Happy Thanksgiving! Want a hilarious, family-friendly way to honor some of this holiday’s OGs? Gather everyone around for 5m to watch my brilliant pal @joeytainment.bsky.social’s absolutely delightful animated short about Native Americans and… video games? Multiple ways on how to watch below.

When I was a kid, the only Native representation I saw in cartoons was A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Special. I made Pow! to show that modern, funny Native characters deserve to be seen too. Watch us on FNX. If you like it, review us on @letterboxd.social and tell your friends!

Thank you @markruffalo.bsky.social !!

The folks at @animag.bsky.social are some of the best in the business when it comes to covering animation. I was so honored to sit down with them and talk about my new film Pow!! Check out the interview and then watch Pow! for free on FNX - First Nations Experience!

Support Native American-made cartoons! After 100+ screenings around the world, you can now watch Pow! for free, from the comfort of your home on FNX - First Nations Experience! Watch Pow!, share it and help us dethrone A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving as the most popular November cartoon!

I am super excited to see this animated short by @joeytainment.bsky.social w/ @gingela.bsky.social at the Anchorage International Film Festival! And I'm heartbroken to be out of town for @princessdaazhraii.bsky.social's "Two Old Women" at the fest but y'all should go. anchoragefilmfestival.org

Thanks so much to Michelle Valles at @nbcla.com for having me on to talk about Pow!, our Best Animated Short awards campaign, today’s @laskinsfest.bsky.social screening and how our Native storytelling movement is so cool! Also, I reveal when you can watch Pow! for free on FNX (tomorrow!!!)!

This Sunday at 12:30pm, Pow! is screening at @laskinsfest.bsky.social in a block of amazing Indigenous made animated shorts! Skinsfest always brings a rowdy, Native heavy crowd so if you haven’t seen Pow! in theaters yet, this is a great screening to go to!

We sold out The Autry!! It was so amazing to screen Pow! with Eric Micheal Hernandez and Loren Waters and share the stage with Bird Runningwater. Vying for awards is a hard process and it’s so validating to have people cheering us on. If you’re an Academy voter, consider Pow!, Tiger and Courage!

This Friday, 11/21 @ 4:15pm I’m screening Pow! + more of my films at Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, VA! Come, see me talk about my work, maybe get a free Pow! keychain, and hear me talk about the fest on Sifter with @tvjerry.bsky.social !

For your consideration!

For Your Consideration: Pow! - Best Animated Short Film Directed by Joey Clift "Pow! Invites viewers into a big Indian world with an even bigger heart." - Julian Brave Noisecat, Director, SugarCane "Everything a good short should be!" - Mike Rianda, Director, The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Today I screened Pow! and a few of my other films for @mayor.lacity.gov 's staff at Los Angeles City Hall! I feel so lucky to get these opportunities and I can’t thank Anthony Pico enough for the invite and the teams that worked so hard to make this screening happen. Happy NAHM Ya'll!

It’s genuinely so cool to see Pow! get all of this Oscars’ buzz. Thank you to the amazing folks at @cartoonbrew.bsky.social for this interview and for their extremely kind words about the film. If you’re in Los Angeles, come to our FYC event with Courage and Tiger at The Autry on 11/19!