Life is a soap opera...or it could be. Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT) is teaming up with Media for Health and the National Society for American Indian Elderly in a Call for Scripts to be considered for production through the Native Radio Theater Project. Our goal is to produce a series of short audio dramas that would be entertaining and educational. The deadline for submissions is February 13, 2009.

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NAPT has selected nine standout documentary projects and will award more than $500,000 to filmmakers in its annual open call for proposals.

"Supporting Native American filmmakers is our business and the talent in Native America continues to expand each year," NAPT Executive Director Shirley K. Sneve (Rosebud Sioux) said. "We are proud to be part of the process to provide indigenous perspectives-our stories, our lives-to an educated and insightful audience, a PBS audience."

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View the documentaries in our pipeline

·Breaking The Circle: The Threat of Gangs in Indian Country

· La Donna Harris: Indian 101

· Losing Ground

· Lost Tribes

· Native American Marching Bands

· The Salmon People

· Something's Moving

· Telephone Warriors: The Story of The Choctaw Code Talkers

· Video Letters From Prison

Reporter Nancy Kelsey recently spoke with Vestal about his new Native Radio Theater production, The Bullfrog Lover. The two also talked about Rob's involvement with Native Radio Theater and Native Voices at the Autry, as well as his future in Native American theater..

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