Hannah-Rose Waller is a 23-year-old filmmaker from the Osage Indian Reservation in Hominy, OK. She is a graduate from NYU and currently works full-time as a video editor for the Buffalo Nickel Creative, a Native-owned and operated production company and advertising agency.
Love and Loss on the Osage Reservation
Hannah is creating a 30-minute short film, Pretty Hair Camp, about two young Osages who fall in love in the early 1980s against the backdrop of cultural decline and loss. The film will be shot entirely in Osage County.
In this story, one generation of Osage people fear the eventual loss of their culture and community while two young Osages fall in love, giving their parents hope that their bloodlines will continue. Hannah will explore themes of cultural identity, community, coming to terms with the differences between a life envisioned and a life lived.
