My Work
Homecoming
2023 | PBS
Follow Jason Baldes, an Eastern Shoshone and a member of the InterTribal Buffalo Council, as he leads historic transfers of bison to Indigenous communities which will maintain their herds to supply a healthy food source and cultural touchstone for their tribal citizens. The film explores what living among the bison once again means for Native people—today and for future generations.
Produced and Directed by Julianna Brannum
Conscience Point
2019 | PBS
As one of America's wealthiest communities has developed around them in Southampton, New York, the indigenous Shinnecock Nation of Eastern Long Island fight to maintain both their time-honoured traditions and their land.
Produced by Julianna Brannum
Produced and Directed by Julianna Brannum
LaDonna Harris: Indian 101
2014 | PBS
LADONNA HARRIS: INDIAN 101 chronicles the life of Comanche activist and national civil rights leader LaDonna Harris and the role that she has played in Native and mainstream American history since the 1960s.
Through the Repellent Fence
2017 | PBS
In 2015, three Native American artists set out to construct a two-mile-long outdoor artwork that straddles the U.S. and Mexico border.
Produced by Julianna Brannum
Produced by Julianna Brannum
The Girl Scout Murders
2021 | Fox Nation
The unthinkable murders of three young Girl Scouts during a camping trip on the Cherokee reservation just outside Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1977 has haunted the state for more than four decades. But a strange series of events and startling new revelations has sent a local author and teacher on an unexpected journey that may change the history of this notorious cold case, solving it once and for all.
BIO
Julianna Brannum is a documentary filmmaker based in Oklahoma. She served as Consulting Producer on The American Buffalo, directed by Ken Burns, and as Director and Producer of the short film Homecoming, a companion to Burns’s two-part series in 2023. She was the Producer of the PBS Independent Lens documentary, Conscience Point, and served as Series Producer on the 2018 Emmy-nominated PBS series, Native America. In 2017, she produced the PBS documentary Through the Repellent Fence which screened at MoMA and SxSW, and directed and produced the PBS documentary LaDonna Harris: Indian 101 for which she won fellowships from the Sundance Institute/Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation/Tribeca Film Institute.
She co-produced the feature documentary
"Wounded Knee" for the PBS series We Shall Remain on American Experience which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Brannum made her directorial debut with The Creek Runs Red which aired on PBS's Independent Lens in 2007. She has also produced programs for PBS Food, Fox Nation, Travel Channel, Discovery Channel, HGTV, and Bravo.
Brannum is a graduate of The University of Oklahoma where she was awarded the 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award for the College of Arts and Sciences and is a citizen of the Quahada band of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma.