Silver Bullet Productions
Celebrating 20 Years of EmpoweringTribal Communities Through Film
The story of Silver Bullet Productions began over 20 years ago, after a conversation with New Mexico’s tribal educators seeking solutions to problems critical for the survival of tribal history and culture. How to excite students, stop the epidemic of soaring dropout rates, and preserve their culture, history, and language? Nothing existed in 2004 that offered solutions.
Fortunately, New Mexico was entering an age of filmmaking. Pam Pierce and her husband, Robert Pierce, saw the opportunity for tribal elders, parents, and youth to use Film as a vehicle for change and engage in learning enlightened thinking, and preservation of a rich culture overlooked by traditional New Mexico curriculum.
The non-profit Silver Bullet Productions (named for the mythical solution for impossible problems) was created, with education and film as the silver bullets. READ MORE
New Documentary
No Greater Act: Pueblo Resistance
Pueblo Resistance is a timely exploration of the birth of resistance in North America, considered the “First American Revolution” by some historians. This groundbreaking documentary by Silver Bullet Productions tells the fascinating story of Indigenous resistance to Spanish colonization of New Mexico. The foundation for methods of resistance today, this is not a history of Pueblos, nor the Pueblo Revolt, but an account of early resistance. Beginning in 1540 and spanning two centuries, this film reveals the many unsung acts of resilience and resistance by Pueblo People to foreign domination that led up to the Pueblo Revolt. Omitted or obscured in history books, these facts and oral histories are told by scholars and Tribal Historians, and narrated by Academy Award honoree Wes Studi.
NMPBS Airdates/Times
Ch. 5.1 – Thursday, Jan. 29 at 7:00 p.m., and streaming free on the PBS app following the premiere.
Ch. 5.4 – Friday, Jan. 30 at 9 p.m.
Wes Studi narrates untold story of Pueblo resistance in new PBS documentary
By Adrian Gomez, the Albuquerque Journal
January 22, 2026
See what Silver Bullet Productions does
Enjoy this short film highlighting our work with students, communities, and network film production.
We produce student workshops in writing and filmmaking, and we donate new camera equipment to the school. Students are able to continue practicing their story telling and preserving their cultural heritage through film.
We create award-winning documentaries that expose esoteric topics, shatter stereotypes and expand cultural preservation.
SUPPORT US
Support Silver Bullet education programs and films
THE ROBERT W. PIERCE LEGACY FUND
Your donation to this fund, in memory of Robert W. Pierce, will support the operating expenses of Silver Bullet Productions and ensure the high standard of financial health and accountability instituted by Bob’s exceptional leadership as CFO of Silver Bullet Productions continues in perpetuity.
