JHANE MYERS (Producer) is a 2023 Producers Guild of America nominee and two time Emmy award-winning filmmaker, and member of the Comanche and Blackfeet Nations recognized for her passion and dedication to films surrounding and preserving the legacies of Native communities. As an originator of Native community engagement she has established herself as a vital cultural and community resource for Native-content projects produced by the networks and studios, which over the years have included: “Prey” (20th Century/Disney) “1883” (Paramount); “The Wilds” (Amazon); “Monsters of God” (Plan B/TNT); “Magnificent Seven” (MGM/Columbia Pictures); “Wind River” (Weinstein Co.); “The Lone Ranger” (Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films); and “Apocalypto” (Icon Ent./Touchstone).

Myers produced the Sundance short “the Daily Life of Mistress Red” and “Rude Girl” in 2022, and the Emmy-winning documentary “However Wide the Sky: Places of Power” for Silver Bullet Productions in 2021. She served as executive producer on the acclaimed opera “Sweet Land 2020,” which the Music Critics Association of North America bestowed it with best new opera award in 2021.

Myers was an associate producer on the documentaries “Defending the Fire” (2017), about Native American veterans, and “LaDonna Harris Indian 101,” about acclaimed Comanche activist LaDonna Harris, which aired on PBS in 2014. In 2018, she served as on-camera talent for PBS’ “Native America” series episode 4 on the Comanche.

As a Producing Fellow in the Indigenous Program at the Sundance Institute in 2017 she was selected for the fellowship through a national competition with the project “Words from a Bear,” a documentary on the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa author N. Scott Momaday, broadcast in 2019 on PBS’ American Masters. In 2018 she was selected as a Time Warner Storyteller Fellow.

Myers chairs the Santa Fe Community Foundation’s Native American Advised Fund (founded by renowned sculptor Allan Houser), and the community-conscious Silver Bullet Productions whose mission is to empower Native youth through the art of filmmaking. She is a member of the Polo Ralph Lauren Native American and Indigenous Advisory Council.

She made history in 2007 as the executive director of the American Indian National Center for Television and Film in Los Angeles. The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) formed the Center in Los Angeles with network partners Disney/ABC, CBS, NBC Universal and FOX, to increase the representation and visibility of American Indian talent in all aspects of the entertainment industry. She was director of American Indian Projects for the Oklahoma Centennial Commission, festival director of Red Earth, Inc. and a senior account executive for the New York-based Ralph Lauren Fragrance Division, and in 2020, she directed and produced the Ralph Lauren holiday campaign.

She served as the special projects director at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she also developed a Native Youth Film Camp, and as the project manager for Native Cinema Showcase in Santa Fe and the SWAIA Class X division, both of which feature juried competitions for Native filmmakers and screenings of new Native films.

She proudly consults with the Comanche Nation on public relations and special events and formerly served as vice-chair of the Comanche National Museum’s board of directors for two consecutive three-year terms.

Myers was the founding editor-in-chief of Oklahoma Casinos & Entertainment Magazine, and ran her own public relations agency, Jhane Myers & Associates, which specialized in Native and Tribal community engagement and motion picture publicity. She served as project director on a book by fellow Oklahoman (Cherokee) Lloyd Kiva New, entitled Lloyd Kiva New: A New Century (2017), and was a community curator to the National Museum of the American Indian’s popular exhibition, Identity by Design.

Hailing from the Penneducah (sugar eater) and Yappaducah (root eater) bands of the Comanche Nation in Oklahoma, Myers has achieved recognition as a world champion Women’s Southern Buckskin dancer. She is also an accomplished artist specializing in traditional arts, beadwork, and silver smithing. She is a two-time First People’s Fund Fellow in the Culture Capital and Artist in Business Leadership fellowships.

An entertainment professional since her teens, Maura Dhu Studi has worked as an actress, singer, director, screenwriter, acting teacher, dialogue coach and in production. She has taught screenwriting and acting for the Institute of American Indian Arts Summer Film Workshop, Rough Rock High School in Navajo Nation and Silver Bullet Productions Lights Camera Learning Workshops. She was inducted into the New Mexico Film and Television Hall of Fame in 2019. She is the daughter of Oscar winning actor Jack Albertson, and wife of Academy Award Honoree Wes Studi.

During a getaway vacation to Santa Fe in 1992, MaryEllen fell in love with the multi-cultural history, the mountains, and quiet lifestyle and never returned to Los Angeles. She opened her own firm, Collins Forte Marketing & Advertising, and ran that agency for 26 years. In 2018 she obtained her real estate license and brought her marketing and communication skills to this arena.

MaryEllen volunteers her time and financial resources to non-profit animal and Native American organizations throughout New Mexico. She returns to Silver Bullet Productions spearheading events, promotions, and social media.