Julianna Brannum

Julianna Brannum is a documentary filmmaker based in Oklahoma. She served as Consulting Producer on The American Buffalo, directed by Ken Burns, and as Director and Producer of the short film Homecoming, a companion to Burns’s two-part series in 2023. She was the Producer of the PBS Independent Lens documentary, Conscience Point, and served as Series Producer on the 2018 Emmy-nominated PBS series, Native America. In 2017, she produced the PBS documentary Through the Repellent Fence, which screened at MoMA and SxSW, and directed and produced the PBS documentary LaDonna Harris: Indian 101, for which she won fellowships from the Sundance Institute/Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation/Tribeca Film Institute.

She co-produced the feature documentary Wounded Knee, for the PBS series "We Shall Remain" on American Experience, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Brannum made her directorial debut with The Creek Runs Red which aired on PBS's Independent Lens in 2007. She has also produced programs for PBS Food, Fox Nation, Travel Channel, Discovery Channel, HGTV, and Bravo.

Brannum is a graduate of The University of Oklahoma where she was awarded the 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award for the College of Arts and Sciences and is a citizen of the Quahada band of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma.