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2024 Conference Speaker & Presenter

Peshawn Bread

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Peshawn Bread (They/Them/She) is a queer screenwriter, director and producer from the Penatʉkʉ (sugar eater) and Yapurʉka (root eater) bands of the Comanche tribe. Their writing focuses on Indigenous women, sexuality and telling truths through humorous experiences. As an artist, Peshawn loves to marry their love for fashion and film together through highly stylized or fashion forward productions.

They’ve worked on productions ranging from short films, features, to studio productions such as Amazon Studios’ Outer Range (S1& S2) and Marvel Studio’s Echo.

In addition to working on productions, Peshawn Bread is a Sundance Film Institute alumni of the Full Circle Fellowship (2014) and the 2019 Indigenous Filmmaker’s Lab where they had the opportunity to workshop, develop and shoot their script “The Daily Life of Mistress Red”. A mockumentary short film about a Native Dominatrix for hire who whips apologies out of white supremacists.

As a Creative Director, Peshawn created a visual narrative and representation for Teton Trade Cloth (2020-2021) that drove sales and inspired fashion brands to include indigenous peoples in their advertising and styling. While working as Creative Director they were able to get Teton’s product into film productions such as Reservation Dogs, and Echo. Also creating opportunities for indigenous fashion designers/artists to showcase their work by running the Teton Trade Cloth Fashion Show, two years in a row. Bread has created content for different fashion brands and is the Founder/designer of their own brand – House of Sutai.

Peshawn also acts as a consultant on bringing indigenous representation to media; Currently working with Ralph Lauren as a Cultural Liaison while pitching their TV series about Indigenous vampires.

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