About IAM
Indigenous Action Media (IAM) was founded on August 25th, 2001 with the focus of providing Indigenous youth with skills to address issues in their community through creative forms of media outreach.
IAM offers media strategy consultation and support in the face of environmental & social injustices. We do this through direct support, workshops, web and graphic design services, documentaries and youth empowerment projects.
We are an volunteer collective of experienced Indigenous media makers & activists that work together on a project by project basis for media justice.
IAM has also worked in the past with the Museum of Northern Arizona and Flagstaff Cultural Partners to produce the Southwest Native American Film Festival.
“Unless we fight for our voices to be heard, both corporate & progressive media outlets will continue to systematically silence the critical concerns facing many Indigenous communities. The goals of IAM are to obtain justice, dignity & cultural survival by supporting and training community members, with a focus on Indigenous youth, in media relations and videography so they can bring their voices directly into the public forum.”
Major Projects:
• Outta Your Backpack Media (OYBM)
OYBM started as a project of IAM. We provide webdesign, graphic design and mentorship support.
Visit the website here: www.oybm.org
• Design Action
We can provide your group/organization with design for little or no cost.
Fill out this form for a request for support.
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Organizations and campaigns we’ve supported:
www.savethepeaks.org - Logo, web design, flyers, stickers, posters, postcards.
www.longestwalk.org - Posters, postcards, web outreach materials.
www.nativemovement.org - Logo and web design (previous version).
Coal Block - Logo and web design elements.
Power Paths Documentary - Logo, DVD cover, website design elements.
Keya Earth - Logo and outreach material.
Native Renaissance - Logo.
• Media Justice Workshops
Click here for a full listing of the workshops we offer
• Documentaries
Making a Stand at Desert Rock (2006)
• PSAs
Just Transition - 30 sec [Radio]
Save the Peaks - 30 sec [TV]
• SOUTHWEST NATIVE AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
Indigenous Action Media (IAM), Flagstaff Cultural Partners (FCP) and the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) present Flagstaff’s first Native American Film and Video Festival celebrating works of Native American film and video makers from the Southwest. The festival showcases feature length films, documentaries, shorts, music videos, and experimental film and video.
IAM also hosts a series of cummunity film screenings and tours with films throughout the country.
About IAM’s Coordinator:
Klee Benally (Dine’) currently lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, he has been a media activist for over 6 years, producing short documentaries and offering consultation for various indigenous media campaigns. He is also an entertainer with the Native American Music Award winning rock group Blackfire (www.blackfire.net) & the internationally acclaimed traditional dance group, The Jones Benally Family , with which he has performed Dine’ traditional dances all of his life.
Klee recently directed and edited “The Snowbowl Effect”, a feature documentary which has been screened both nationally and internationally and is currently used in teaching curriculum at Northern Arizona University.
IAM is an all-volunteer collective of experienced Indigenous media makers & activists that work together on a project by project basis for media justice.
