Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain (Turtle Mountain Chippewa)

Eve LaFountain is an award winning Jewish and Turtle Mountain Chippewa filmmaker and photographer from Santa Fe, New Mexico. After completing the ABC Disney Institute of American Indian Arts Summer Film Workshop in 2008, Eve was sponsored by NBC Universal to move to Los Angeles and participate in their year long Page Program. While in the program she worked on the Tonight Shows with Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien, and as a publicity assistant at USA Network and Focus Features. While in college in Amherst, Massachusetts, Eve was the head facilitator of a non-profit youth media arts program called Video Vanguards. Her undergraduate senior thesis project,”It’s Never Too Late to be a Cowgirl,” was a multi media gallery installation of ledger book art, photography, film and animation about the constructed mythology of the Wild West. Eve’s film work has been screened at the ImagineNative Film and Media Arts Festival in Toronto, the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco, the Smithsonian Museum in New York, the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Film Festival. Eve is currently the General Operations Manager of the Echo Park Film Center, a non-profit community media arts center, where she teaches classes, curates and runs screenings and is charge of all daily operations. She holds a Bachelor of Liberal Arts Degree in experimental film, photography and Native American studies from Hampshire College. She is currently an MFA candidate at the California Institute of the Arts in Photography and Integrated Media.