Brooke Pepion Swaney works to tell contemporary Native Stories. Her first feature documentary Daughter of a Lost Bird (Vision Maker Media/CPB) is beginning its festival circuit and most recently and notably, she made The Black List’s Inaugural Indigenous List in 2020 with Tinder on the Rez, along with her co-writer and friend Angela Tucker. When not working in the film industry, Brooke shares her skills with her screenwriting students as a Faculty Mentor at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ Low Residency MFA program. Brooke is an enrolled citizen of the Blackfeet Nation and a Bitterroot Salish descendent of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Brooke likes bitmojis, living in Montana, and her special needs dog Schoko.