Screening and Discussion: 'Mekko'

Sterlin Harjo, writer-director of feature documentary and fiction films, will present “Mekko” about a Native American parolee with a discussion to follow.

A member of the Seminole Nation, Harjo has Muskogee heritage and was raised in Holdenville, Oklahoma. His first four films, including the fiction features “Four Sheets to the Wind” (2007) and “Barking Water” (2008), and the documentary “This May Be the Last Time” (2014), all premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

“Mekko” (2015), a thriller set in Tulsa, paints the portrait of a homeless Native American parolee who seeks to save his chaotic yet beautiful community from the darkness that threatens it. It premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival.

Co-Sponsored by the NEH Professorship, the Office of the Dean, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Films for Social Justice, and the Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies