Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain
filmmaker.
also known as Eve-Lauryn LaFountain
Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. She is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, and educator. Her work explores identity, history, Indigenous Futurism, feminism, ghosts, magic, and her mixed Native American and Jewish heritage through lens-based media and installations. She is a Sundance New Frontier and Indigenous MacArthur Fellow, was a Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow, and has received support for her work from the Mike Kelley Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation, Cousin Collective, and more. She has also been an Interactive Storyteller for Tribeca Film Institute. LaFountain was born into a family of artists and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a member of the Echo Park Film Center Collective. She teaches experimental film, photography, and portfolio development workshops at the California Institute of the Arts, where she was also the Assistant Director of admissions for the School of Film/Video. She holds a BA from Hampshire College, and a dual MFA in film and video, and photography and media from CalArts.
From FEMMEBIT and the New California, August 2023