Sterlin Harjo was born on November 14,1979 and is a Native American filmmaker from Oklahoma.
15 Facts About Sterlin Harjo
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Sterlin Harjo is a citizen of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and a Muscogee descendant.
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Sterlin Harjo has directed three feature films, a documentary, and the FX comedy drama series Reservation Dogs, all of them set in his home state of Oklahoma and concerned primarily with Native American people and content.
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Sterlin Harjo attended the University of Oklahoma, where he studied art and film.
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Sterlin Harjo was named best director at the 2007 American Indian Film Festival.
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Sterlin Harjo has directed a series of shorts for This Land Press in Tulsa, where Harjo is the staff video director.
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Sterlin Harjo was a member of the 2010 Sundance shorts competition jury.
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Sterlin Harjo is a founding member of a five-member Native American comedy group, the 1491s.
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Sterlin Harjo is one of the directors of the Cherokee Nation's monthly television news magazine, Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People.
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In 2023, Sterlin Harjo directed the music video for the song "Mean Old Sun" by the Oklahoma country rock band Turnpike Troubadours.
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In 2024, Sterlin Harjo co-wrote the screenplay for the sports drama Rez Ball with Sydney Freeland, who directed the film.
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In October 2024, Sterlin Harjo created a pilot episode for a series titled The Sensitive Kind with Ethan Hawke, which subsequently received a series order by FX.
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Sterlin Harjo was awarded the 2011 Tilghman Award from the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle and the Tulsa Library Trust's 2013 American Indian Writers Award.
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Sterlin Harjo received a 2021 Peabody Award for Reservation Dogs.
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In 2024, Sterlin Harjo was named a MacArthur Fellow, the only filmmaker in the group.