We’re deeply honored to welcome this year’s Hulu/Kartemquin Accelerator mentors, Jhane Myers and Julian Brave NoiseCat.
Jhane Myers (L) is a two-time Emmy-winning filmmaker and 2023 Producers Guild of America nominee, known for her unwavering dedication to projects that honor and preserve Native legacies. A member of the Comanche and Blackfeet Nations, Myers has built a respected career in Native community engagement and cultural consulting, making significant contributions to productions like Prey, 1883, The Lone Ranger, Wind River, and Apocalypto.
She has produced multiple award-winning projects, including the Emmy-winning documentary However Wide the Sky: Places of Power and is currently working on an independent documentary about the Native American activist Leonard Peltier.
Julian Brave NoiseCat (R) is a writer, filmmaker and student of Salish art and history and a proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen and descendant of the Lil’Wat Nation of Mount Currie. His critically acclaimed feature documentary, Sugarcane, directed alongside Emily Kassie, premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where NoiseCat and Kassie won the Directing Award in the U.S. Documentary Competition. Sugarcane has also been nominated for a 2025 Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary, and Julian is the first Indigenous North American person to have been nominated for an Oscar® in the Academy’s 97-year history.
NoiceCat’s journalism has appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The New Yorker, has been recognized with many awards, including the 2022 American Mosaic Journalism Prize, which honors “excellence in long-form, narrative, deep reporting on stories about underrepresented and/or misrepresented groups in the present American landscape.” NoiseCat is currently finishing his first book, We Survived the Night. In 2021, NoiseCat was named to the TIME100 Next list of emerging leaders alongside the starting point guard of his fantasy basketball team, Luka Doncic.
We feel incredibly fortunate to be collaborating with these two visionary filmmakers and look forward to seeing the impact their guidance will have on the 2024/25 Hulu/Kartemquin Accelerator filmmaking teams.
Read more about the two films selected for the accelerator: Riders of the Dawn and The Undefeated