"Indios Primeros" will shoot in September with a premiere date set on Oct. 9 and 10 at the VSA North Fourth's 2nd Annual Two Worlds Festival in Albuquerque. "World's Best Frybread" will lens in November and will screen in Los Angeles in early 2010.
Both judging panels were comprised of members of the entertainment industry and the American Indian community and included SCIC Executive Director Paula Starr, VSA North Fourth Art Center Executive Director Marj Neset, screenwriter Travis Adam Wright, filmmaker Rodney Johnson, producer Stephanie Stonefish Ryan, producer Tony Estrada, journalist Robert Schmidt, Native American Public Telecommunications marketing director Kim Baca, writer Tom Clagett, Two Worlds Festival Program coordinator Ollie Reed Jr., filmmaker Tim Ramos, writer/actor Michael Callas, former Creative Spirit winner Shawn Imitates Dog, SCIC producer Pamela Peters, VSA Marketing Director Susanna Kearny, and SCIC consultant Leroy Bingham.
SCIC, InterTribal Entertainment and the VSA North Fourth Art Center would also like to extend honorable mentions to the following scripts and writers: "The Yard" by Vincent Blackhawk Aamodt, "Two Indians, A Fountain and a Light" by Andrew Roa, "People of the Loom Room" by Ron J. Hoskie and "The Chairman" by Daniel L. Stone.