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Sky Hopinka

Born 1984 - Bellingham, WA

Sky Hopinka is a Ho-Chunk Nation national and descendent of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians. He was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and spent a number of years in Palm Springs and Riverside, California, Portland, Oregon and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In Portland he studied and taught Chinuk Wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His work centers around personal positions of homeland and landscape, designs of language and the facets of culture contained within. He received his BA from Portland State University in Liberal Arts and his MFA in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

His work has played at various festivals including ImagineNATIVE Media + Arts Festival, Images Festival, Courtisane Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, American Indian Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Antimatter Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, FLEXfest, and the LA Film Festival. 

Hopinka was awarded jury prizes at the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, the More with Less Award at the 2016 Images Festival, the Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker at the 54th Ann Arbor Film Festival, and 3rd Prize at the 2015 Media City Film Festival.


Available Titles by Sky Hopinka

Title Year Runtime Collection
Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary 2017 00:13:05 Single Titles
Dislocation Blues 2017 00:16:57 Single Titles
Fainting Spells 2018 00:10:45 Single Titles
I'll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You'll Become 2016 00:12:31 Single Titles
Jáaji Approx 2015 00:07:36 Single Titles
Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song 2014 00:09:20 Single Titles
Lore 2019 00:10:00 New Releases, Single Titles
Venite et Loquamur 2015 00:10:44 Single Titles
Visions of an Island 2016 00:15:00 Single Titles
Wawa 2014 00:06:00 Single Titles
When you're lost in the rain 2018 00:05:05 Single Titles

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