Reservation Dogs

Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Muscogee) is an award-winning filmmaker from Holdenville, Oklahoma.Now based in Tulsa, Harjo is the co-creator, executive producer and showrunner of FX’s Reservation Dogs. After its first two seasons, Reservation Dogs was honored as one of AFI’s Television Programs of the Year in both 2022 and 2023, received four nominations at the 2023 Critics Choice Awards, won a 2022 Peabody Award, 2022 Television Academy Honors Award, 2022 Independent Spirit Award for Best New Scripted Series, was an American Film Institute Awards Honoree and won Breakthrough Series – Short Form at the 2021 Gotham Awards, among other honors.Currently, Harjo’s series Poster Girls, which he co-wrote with bestselling novelist Jonathan Lee, is in development with FX Productions. Paramount+ recently acquired his series Yellowbird, which he is co-creating with Erica Tremblay, and which is based on Sierra Crane Murdoch’s novel of the same name. LeBron James’ company, SpringHill, is producing Rez Ball (Netflix), a series Harjo co-wrote with Sydney Freeland. Harjo has several other projects in development.Over his career, Harjo has created and directed five feature films: three narrative dramas and two documentaries. His most recent documentary feature, Love and Fury, chronicles the work and intersection of over a dozen contemporary Native American artists.&nbsp;Love and Fury was acquired by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY and released on Netflix in December 2021. The film premiered at the 2021 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and was an official selection of the Seattle International Film Festival, Virginia Film Festival and deadCenter Film Festival.Harjo’s first feature film, Four Sheets to the Wind, premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2007 and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. His feature documentary, This May Be the Last Time, premiered at Sundance in 2014. His most recent narrative feature, Mekko, premiered&nbsp;at the&nbsp;2015 Los Angeles&nbsp;Film Festival and had its international premiere at Toronto International Film Festival. Each of his films are set in Oklahoma and address contemporary Indigenous experiences.A founding member of the Native sketch comedy troupe, The 1491s, Harjo co-wrote the group’s play Between Two Knees, an intergenerational comedic love story/musical set against the backdrop of true events in Native American history. Between Two Knees was commissioned in 2018/2019 by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and New Native Theater. In 2022, it completed a run at Yale Repertory Theatre.

Harjo (Seminole/Muscogee Creek) is an award-winning filmmaker from Holdenville, Oklahoma.

Sterlin Harjo headshot wearing black glasses and a woven tan hat, with a deer in front of him.

Sterlin Harjo | Co-Creator, Executive Producer | Reservation Dogs

Sterlin Harjo

Taika Waititi

Garrett Basch

Devery Jacobs
as Elora Danan / Story Editor / Writer / Director

Sterlin Harjo | Co-Creator, Executive Producer | Reservation Dogs

Sterlin Harjo

Taika Waititi

Garrett Basch

Devery Jacobsas Elora Danan / Story Editor / Writer / Director

Devery Jacobs
as Elora Danan / Story Editor / Writer / Director