Overview
Jeffrey Palmer is an Associate Professor of Performing and Media Arts, a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, and is an award-winning filmmaker and media artist. He describes his work as a multimedia exploration of Indigenous people's lives in twenty-first century America. He recently completed the feature film, N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear, examining the life and mind of the first and only Native American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature. The film premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and aired nationally on the PBS series, American Masters. In 2020, the film was nominated for an Emmy in support of American Masters' 33rd season, for Outstanding Documentary or Non-Fiction Series. The film also won the 2019 Ted Turner Award for the film that most encourages environmental stewardship. Of Palmer's numerous short films, Isabelle's Garden, was a winner of the Bill and Melinda Gates Short Film Challenge at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. His films screened at venues such as Hot Docs, The Seattle International Film Festival, The Berlinale European Market, and many others around the world. He received numerous awards, grants, and recognition from the Sundance Institute, ITVS, Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and the Firelight Media Documentary Lab. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America, International Documentary Association, Television Academy, and in 2022 completed the short narrative film Ghosts, which is chronicles Native American boarding schools in Oklahoma. He is currently working on the feature narrative script for the film Ghosts.
In the news
- PMA Associate Professor Jeffrey Palmer’s Film Included in TIME’s 22 Essential Works of Indigenous Cinema
- Student Film Screening
- Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures holds first event
- PMA 1611: PMA Studios Info Sessions
- PMA Associate Professor Jeffrey Palmer to Speak at the New York Society for Ethical Culture
- Call for Scripts: PMA Studios
- PMA Associate Professor Jeffrey Palmer’s film N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear to Screen at LitFilm in Brooklyn
- PMA profs’ film earns spot in PBS film festival
- Student Film Screening - Spring 2024
- Film set in Schwartz Center: A pop-up laboratory for building worlds
- PMA Associate Professor Jeffrey Palmer’s Film "N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear" to Air On PBS
- Professor Jeffrey Palmer Retrospective at the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (April 8th)
- Faculty members' film focuses on boarding school escape
- Ghosts, a short film screening, 2022 Cornell Biennial
- Interview with Trence Gillem '22 Performing and Media Arts major
- Arts and Sciences faculty honored for teaching, advising excellence
- New A&S faculty bring Indigenous studies expertise
PMA Courses - Fall 2024
- PMA 3000 : Independent Study
- PMA 3570 : Film and Video Production I
- PMA 3571 : Documentary Filmmaking
- PMA 4950 : Honors Research Tutorial I