About the Filmmaker

Anne Makepeace, writer, producer, director has been making award-winning independent films on cross-cultural issues for twenty years. Her recently completed documentary “We Still Live Here” - Âs Nutayuneân, which won the Inspiration Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, and the Moving Mountains Award at Telluride MountainFilm, will be broadcast nationally on Independent Lens/PBS on November 17th, 2011. Her previous film, I.M. PEI, BUILDING CHINA MODERN, aired nationally on PBS/American Masters last March. Her previous film, RAIN IN A DRY LAND, premiered at SBIFF, won the Full Frame Working Films Award, and was broadcast as the lead show on the acclaimed PBS series POV in 2007. Before that, ROBERT CAPA IN LOVE AND WAR, premiered at Sundance and was broadcast PBS’ American Masters, the BBC, and many other foreign stations. The film won a national prime time Emmy and the Voice for Humanity Award at Telluride MountainFilm. COMING TO LIGHT, Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians, was shortlisted for an Academy Award, premiered at Sundance 2000, and was broadcast on American Masters/PBS in 2001 as well as on Arte and other foreign stations. The film won the O’Connor Award for Best Film from the American Historical Association, an Award of Excellence from the American Anthropological Association, a Gold Hugo award from Chicago, Best Documentary at Telluride, and many other awards. Her personal documentary, BABY IT’S YOU, premiered at Sundance 1998, screened at South by Southwest, was the lead show on POV’s 1998 season, and was broadcast on Channel 4’s True Stories series. Baby It’s You also screened at the Whitney Biennial 2000. Makepeace has also written, produced, and/or directed many dramatic films. She has twice been a writer/director fellow at the Sundance Institute, and served on the Sundance 2001 Film Festival’s documentary jury.

About the Film

Celebrated every Thanksgiving as “the Indians” who saved the Pilgrims, then largely forgotten, the Wampanoag of Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard, spurred on by their intrepid Wampanoag linguist and MacArthur honoree Jessie Little Doe Baird, are saying loud and clear, in their Native tongue, “Âs Nutayuneân,” – “We still live here.”