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Tekpatl Kuauhtzin is a Nawa filmmaker, photographer and storyteller based in Los Angeles, California. By way of visual storytelling, he explores and reaffirms the inherent sovereignty of First Peoples and their ever-changing relationships with the environments that sustain them. His passion in visual storytelling was born of a love for Indigenous language revitalization, land-based autonomy and ways of being.

Clip of a Native American man braiding his hair during an urban hike

Static shot of Native American man greeting the ocean

A static clip of a Native American climber grabbing his rope

Static view of a Native American boulderer maneuvering across a rock

Pan of Native American man's back as he sits on a shore

A Native American boulderer climbing up a rock

Native American man ponders on beach

Static clip of Native American man driving a boat on a lake

A reveal clip of a Native American man prepping his hands with climbing chalk

Close-up static shot of Native American man parking car

Native American man casting a fishing rod

Static shot of a Native American man sitting on a bench during a hike

Native American man enjoys boogie boarding a wave

Native American boulderer makes his way up a boulder

Native American man takes boogie board out of car trunk

Native American boulderer claps hands covered in climbing chalk

Native American man floats in the ocean with a boogie board

Top-down clip of a Native American boulderer climbing

Native American man walks through a switch-back during a hike

Native American man dives in the ocean with a boogie board

A Native American climber stuffing gear into his backpack in a dark room before sunrise

Close up details of Native American man working a fishing rod

Native American man leaning back on the shore of a beach

A Native American kayaker stretches before launching into the open ocean

Close up details of Native American man steering a boat

Young Indigenous man waits for a wave

A Native American boulderer enters a slot and puts down items

Native American man walks on beach sand with a boogie board

A Native American man walking along the ocean shore

Native American man looking out at mountains

Native American man walks on the ocean shore after swimming

Native American man walks down a shore facing toward the sunset

Close-up of a Native American man surfing a wave with a boogie board

Short pan shot of a Native American man walking away toward a hiking trail

Profile clip of a smiling Native American man at the beach

Indigenous woman inspects an ear of corn on a stalk

Native man nocks an arrow on a bow

Native man draws bow and releases an arrow

Slow motion pan shot of a young woman crafting beads

Slow motion close-up of Indigenous woman beading

Slow motion zoom shot of an Indigenous woman shucking corn

Static close-up shot of an Indigenous woman beading

Detail shot of an Indigenous woman loading beads on her needle

Detail shot of an Indigenous woman harvesting beans

Detail shot of an Indigenous woman walking through squash vines

Detail shot of an Indigenous woman harvesting squash from her garden

Native American man swimming in the ocean

An Indigenous woman harvesting squash blossoms from her garden