
Josiah W. Jones is Apache, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Ohkay Owingeh, and Kiowa, born and raised in Shawnee, OK. He graduated from Southeastern Oklahoma State University with a business degree in May 2021 but had always had a passion for filmmaking. After graduating, Josiah moved up to Tulsa to pursue a career in filmmaking. There, he started working at Pursuit Films and was pulled on full time as a production assistant, assistant video editor, camera operator, and producer. Outside of work, he is a writer and director. He received the Emerging Filmmakers award at the LA Skins Film Festival in 2021 for his short film Chipisala’Cho. Josiah has also starred in Reservation Dogs as Young Fixico, along with finishing up his short film The Love for the Game through the Vision Maker Media Creative Shorts Fellowship Grant.
Oglala Lakota artist, musician, and composer Mato Wayuhi, known for his work on Reservation Dogs, references ancestral knowledge to inform his present artistic processes and visions for the future.