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Blackhorse Lowe

Blackhorse Lowe

Writing

Biography

Blackhorse Lowe is an American filmmaker, director, producer, photographer and editor. He is known for narrative films set on the Navajo reservation that explore the pull between Navajo tradition and contemporary non-Navajo ways. Members of his family have been active participants in his productions and are often cast as the actors.

Known For

Big Sky
7.2

Private detective Cassie Dewell partners with ex-cop Jenny Hoyt on a search for two sisters who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. When they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area, they must race against the clock to stop the perpetrator before another woman is taken.

Big Sky

2020
The Hunting Party
7.1

A small team of investigators are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that's not supposed to exist.

The Hunting Party

2025
Outer Range
6.9

A rancher fighting for his land and family stumbles upon an unfathomable mystery at the edge of Wyoming’s wilderness, forcing a confrontation with the Unknown in ways both intimate and cosmic in the untamable American West.

Outer Range

2022
Reservation Dogs
7.9

Four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma steal, rob and save in order to get to the exotic, mysterious and faraway land of California.

Reservation Dogs

2021
5th World
9.0

Two young Navajos hitch hike home through the Navajo reservation, falling in love along the way.

5th World

2005
Hoverboard
N/A

After watching Back to the Future 2, an imaginative young girl and her stuffed teddy bear try to invent a real, working Hoverboard.

Hoverboard

2012
Navajo Police: Class 57
6.6

Follow the officers and recruits of the Navajo Police Department through the rigorous training, the physical challenges, and the self-doubt, delving into their backstories to reveal an overview of life on the reservation and the motivations that drew them to the force. While the turbulent stories of Class 57 unfold in real time, the series provides an ever-widening portrait of the Navajo Nation at large.

Navajo Police: Class 57

2023
Four Sheets to the Wind
4.7

After his father's untimely suicide, Cufe leaves his home in a Native American reservation in search of a more fulfilling life.

Four Sheets to the Wind

2007
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
6.7

This film is an intimate portrayal of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita told through the eyes of her children. Using hours of archive footage, some never before seen, her youngest child and director Hepi Mita discovers the filmmaker he never knew and shares the mother he lost, with the world.

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

2019
Little Chief
8.5

The lives of a Native woman and a troubled young boy intersect over the course of a school day on a reservation in Oklahoma.

Little Chief

2020
Mino Bimaadiziwin
N/A

A trans Anishinaabe man meets a young Anishinaabe woman who pushes him to reconnect with their culture.

Mino Bimaadiziwin

2018
Gallup (Na'nízhoozhí)
N/A

Two mystical beings emerge from the scenery, embarking on a journey through Gallup— Na'nízhoozhí in the Navajo language— before melting back into the desert at nightfall.

Gallup (Na'nízhoozhí)

2021
Craters of the Moon
5.5

Craters of the Moon is a National park in Idaho. A young couple on a cross-country road-trip loses their way in a blizzard and gets stranded, apparently in the middle of nowhere. As the days pass by, their relationship slowly deteriorates, and this slow-burning psychological thriller builds to a horrifying climax in the Craters of The Moon National Park.

Craters of the Moon

2014
Fukry
N/A

Ching Yazzie and friends get through life's unexpected encounters, the ups and downs of falling in and out of love or not at all.

Fukry

2019
Shimásání
6.2

In 1934 on the serene Navajo reservation, Mary Jane spends her time daydreaming and tending to her family's flock of sheep. When her older sister returns from boarding school with a world geography book, she reveals new worlds that are "just over the mountain." Conflicted by her obedient nature and her curious imagination, Mary Jane must privately decide to either maintain her lifestyle or depart into the exotic unknown.

Shimásání

2009
Chasing the Light
N/A

Riggs, a down-on-his-luck screenwriter, struggles to finish a script. But failed suicide attempts, unstable friends, drug deals, and memories of his ex-girlfriend interfere.

Chasing the Light

2014
Yootó hahoodzo (New Mexico)
N/A

A mist being traverses the New Mexico landscape.

Yootó hahoodzo (New Mexico)

2021
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N/A

Video for the first track of William Fowler Collin's new album, Hallucinating Loss.

Opening Scene

HOOGHAN
N/A

Larry A. and Carmelita B. Lowe tell their family history over images of a Hogan, a traditional Navajo dwelling, being built.

HOOGHAN

2018
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N/A

Romance and comedy come together to paint a contemporary portrait of love on the Navajo Reservation.

b.DREAMS

2009