DUANE HUMEYESTEWA was born and raised on the Hopi reservation in northeastern Arizona. He left home at age twelve to pursue life and discovered art in the process. After a short stint with politics in Washington, D.C., Humeyestewa moved to Los Angeles to attend Loyola Marymount University where he tasted filmmaking for the first time. Two years later he moved to Albuquerque, N.M. to attend the University of New Mexico. While there, Humeyestewa worked on a variety of projects, including local theater, television shows and films like Buffalo Girls, Earth 2, The Lazarus Man, and Hi-Lo Country, and other UNM productions. Upon graduating from UNM, where he focused on the technical design of Theatre and Film/TV, Humeyestewa moved to L.A. In 1997 and 1998, Humeyestewa was chosen to participate in the Sundance Institute Filmmaker's Lab in Utah where he obtained valuable knowledge about independent filmmaking. It was during his time at Sundance, with several mentors like Robert Redford, Michael Apted, Denzel Washington, Kathy Bates, and the Indian writer Sherman Alexie, that Duane decided to make filmmaking his full time career. At present, Humeyestewa lives in Los Angeles where he has worked for a variety of production companies doing commercials, music videos, and feature films. Humeyestewa is one of the founding members of the Native American Film and Television Alliance (NAFATA) - established to serve as a resource for the Native American community in the film and television industry. To date, Humeyestewa has written and produced several short films —including Remember Me— some feature-length screenplays, a few TV specs, and some spec commercial ideas. Recently, Duane optioned his first full-length screenplay, Red Road Home, to Three Muses Films who has a deal with Miramax/Dimension. The short film Running on Indian Time, is a mini-celebration of tribe, family, and individuality. Humeyestewa is sure to be a prominent voice in Native American cinema.