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February 2005
 Filmmaker
and playwright Lena Carr (Navajo)
lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her work has been funded by
grants from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting and Native
American Public Telecommunications. In 1996 Carr won the Outstanding
Historical Program Emmy Award for her documentary War Code:
Navajo, produced by National Geographic. Carr is fluent in
the Navajo language. Her films have portrayed the significance
of cultural traditions for contemporary Navajo, especially young
people. She received an MA in Psychology at the University of
New Mexico. Carr grew up on the Navajo Reservation-near Steamboat,
Arizona-and in Morenci, Arizona.
"I saw my first movies when I was very young and it was
just something that was very fascinating to me. My main interest
at the time was to be an actress but eventually I felt the power
of motion picture making was in back of the camera, not in front
of the camera. I decided to make my voice known, through creating
motion pictures about our people. I think there is really no other
way to get our stories, our thoughts, and our purposes to a young
generation."
Screened by NMAI
Image credits: Lena
Carr - courtesy of the filmmaker
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