Dawn Mikkelson

Multi-Regional Emmy Award-winning producer and 2010 McKnight Filmmaking Fellow, Mikkelson's work has broadcast internationally, with festival screenings including: Cinequest, Galway Film Fleadh, Frameline Film Festival, Cambridge Film Festival, Cleveland Film Festival, imagineNATIVE, and the American Indian Film Festival. Mikkelson has completed five award-winning independent feature documentaries, The Red Tail, Green Green Water, THIS obedience, and Treading Water: a documentary, which illuminate larger societal issues while creating understanding through the intimate stories of individuals. Her fifth feature documentary Risking Light premiered in competition at the 2018 Cinequest Film Festival (listed in Top 10 by San Francisco Chronicle), playing festivals around the world and is broadcast across the united States through American Public Television and Canada through the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).