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Shelley Niro is an award-winning Mohawk photographer, painter, sculptor and filmmaker from Canada. In her debut feature film, Kissed by Lightning, a Mohawk woman works through the grief surrounding the death of her husband by painting the stories he used to tell. “It is really about the essence of being an Iroquois person,” said Niro, the Mohawk producer, writer and director of Kissed by Lightning. “I wanted to contemporize that story through a modern-day twist.”
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Shelley Niro is an award-winning Mohawk photographer, painter, sculptor and filmmaker from Canada. In her debut feature film, Kissed by Lightning, a Mohawk woman works through the grief surrounding the death of her husband by painting the stories he used to tell. “It is really about the essence of being an Iroquois person,” said Niro, the Mohawk producer, writer and director of Kissed by Lightning. “I wanted to contemporize that story through a modern-day twist.”
Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reservation Blues | Jim Boyd and Sherman Alexie | Reservation Blues: The Soundtrack. | Thunderwolf | 1995 | 00:30 |
