Jesse Short Bull (Member of Oglala Sioux Tribe) is a writer and director with a deep connection to his home in the Badlands of South Dakota. LAKOTA NATION VS. UNITED STATES (2022), his most recent film, premiered at Tribeca in 2022 and has won multiple festival awards. The recipient of a fellowship from the Sundance Documentary Fund, Short Bull is also the first Indigenous filmmaker to ever be named to the prestigious DOC NYC Shortlist program. A graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts, Short Bull previously received a 2016 Sundance Institute Native American and Indigenous Program Development Grant and also attended the Creative Producing Summit at Sundance.