Anne Makepeace

Anne Makepeace has been a writer, producer, and director of award-winning independent films for more than twenty-five years. Her most recently completed documentary, "We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân", is now making the festival rounds, won the 2011 Full Frame Inspiration Award, and will be broadcast nationally on PBS on the Independent Lens series in November (see http://www.makepeaceproductions.com/wampfilm.html). "We Still Live Here", a documentary about the return of the Wampanoag language, was funded by the Sundance Documentary Fund, ITVS, the LEF Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. Makepeace also won fellowships in support of the project from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Jessie Little Doe Baird, a Wampanoag linguist whose story is central to the film, recently won a MacArthur "genius" award for her unprecedented work in bringing back her people's language, which had not been spoken for over a century.