BIO: Sherece Lamke
Sherece Lamke is the sole owner and proprietor of Brighid Films which launched in 2006.
Sherece started out believing she wanted to be an actor.
She trained for years in that direction, working as a public television broadcast engineer in the early mornings and training at a theater late into the night. The first time she stood on stage with all eyes focused on her she realized that wasn't actually the side of storytelling that intrigued her. She understood at that point that it was the written word and crafting a story from behind a camera or edit desk that was what really held her interest.
Sherece has produced programs that promote understanding within diverse world cultures while sensitively handling difficult political subject matter (for Twin Cities Public Television; Holocaust Aftermath: Across Generations, Armenian Genocide: 90 Years Later, 2005 News Special regional Emmy nomination and 2006 NBNA Eric Severeid Award winner). She has directed, produced and edited performance DVDs meant to capture the moment the line between artist and audience disappears (Live at the Ave featuring Hothouse Flowers & Colin Devlin). She has directed, produced, ran one of the cameras and edited music documentaries aimed at giving viewers a peek behind the scenes with some amazingly inspirational musicians (Hothouse Flowers: Scenes from a Tour, JoAnna James, Chris Koza and currently working with Colin Devlin). She co-wrote, directed, co-produced and financed a narrative short entitled "Influence". She wrote the feature length screenplay "Silence" she calls a feminine perspective Cyrano de Bergerac (2000 Edmonds International Film Festival Final Draft Award).
Sherece sees herself ultimately as a storyteller with a sense of responsibility to the characters whether in documentaries featuring real people she is simply providing the means for the voice to be heard or in screen writing where the characters are created from her imagination for a specific purpose. She hopes with Brighid Films to make the world a better place, one story at a time.
BIO: Duane (Duffy) Owen
Executive Producer of Dakota 38 Duane (Duffy) Owen is an enrolled member of the Prairie Island Mdewakanton Dakota Community.
As a young man, Duffy studied filmmaking under award-winning independent producer/director Chris Spotted Eagle and award-winning international filmmaker Bob Richards. Working on both sides of the camera, he was instrumental in the production of several films including 'Harold of Orange,' 'Fort Snelling,' 'The Living History Series,' and episodes of 'Wyld Ryce' (a magazine program produced for Twin Cities Public Television).
In 1994 Duffy joined with Bob Richards to establish Strait Arrow Productions, Inc., a Native American-owned company. They produced several cultural films including 'Our People Today,' 'Friend and Ally' and 'The Elders'. Both 'Our People Today' and 'Friend and Ally' are used as diversity training tools for employees of Treasure Island Resort and Casino. 'The Elders', an enchanting collection of interviews with senior members of the Prairie Island Mdewakanton Dakota Community, preserves the legacy of a now lost generation of the Dakota people.
Duffy is the youngest of seven children of the late Dakota spiritual and community leader Amos Owen and his wife Ione. His father Amos spent his lifetime promoting healing and understanding between Indian and non-Indian, educating young people, and preserving the culture of the Dakota people. In their own way, each of Amos' children carries on the vision of their father. Through his filmmaking, Duffy continues the journey of reconciliation.