Let's Grow Creative FRONTLINE Together

Sacred Places to Indigenous Peoples are under threat in America.

Mining, Water Marketing, and Energy Development threaten Large Scale Environmental Damage

Activist, educator and media producer, Gina "Tracker" Quinone (Chiricahua Apache) whose family once lived on tribal lands siezed for the development of the Atomic Bomb, knows what it feels like to lose access to traditional lands, but also to her place based culture, a devastating and heartbreaking loss, stripping away connections to a homeland that exists only in memory.

Filmmaker, Journalist, Robert Lundahl, made his name with documentary films about this loss of land and culture across the West, from the Elwha River in Washington State, to the Mojave Desert of California, Lundahl's work informs and inspires about these critical issues.

Creative FRONTLINE is a series of Radio Episodes on KPFK 90.7 Los Angeles, delivered into the second largest U.S. market!

Our goal is to grow the Creative FRONTLINE franchise across the entire country.

Creative FRONTLINE is an Episodic Radio Series addressing environmental injustice and extractivism, while protecting indigenous rights and encouraging ecosystem health and biodiversity. The series has enjoyed overwhelming success.

Creative FRONTLINE, broadcast on KPFK in Los Angeles, has recently delivered its 40th episode, “Rewilding LA.” This episode focuses on the removal of Matilija and other dams from California’s rivers and the anticipated benefits of healthier ecosystems for the state and local communities.

On the Ventura River, oral history indicates the removal of the Matilija Dam will result in the uncovering of Chumash sacred sites.

Creative Frontline is already broadcast via one of the most powerful transmitters in the Western U.S.

The goal is to move across the country finding more markets for stories such as:

• Rewilding LA

• Incident at Fort McDermitt

• On the Edges of Our Natural World

• Lithium in America

Join us! Please support our efforts and help raise the media profile of Native American community interests, concerns, and opportunities.

Visit us at www.CreativeFRONTLINE.com.

Funds are requested to continue and enhance Radio Broadcast production capabilities and expand distribution nationally. Produced and distributed by Agence.

Your contribution will help us sustain and expand our programming, allowing us to reach more listeners and provide greater support to indigenous communities.

A contribution will help share "Creative FRONTLINE" with your friends, family, and colleagues! Together, we can amplify indigenous voices and raise awareness about the issues facing indigenous communities today.

Please help us continue to tell these important stories and have them broadcast across the U.S.

The Team

We are a small team that creates a big impact.

Our stories are captured on location, via remote interviews and include material sent to us from the frontlines where the stories are happening.

The stories feature Leaders and Traditional Elders, including Tribal authorities, archaeologists, anthropologists, attorneys, authors, filmmakers, scientists, travelers, executives, musicians, professors, and storytellers, share what they’re seeing on the ground.

Producer/ Director – Robert Lundahl

Beginning with “Unconquering the Last Frontier,” first story of industrial dam removal and ecosystem restoration in the world, followed by “Song on the Water,” about a Modern Day Journey to a Traditional Potlatch by ancient cedar canoe, each seen coast to coast on PBS, Robert Lundahl turned his attention to independent filmmaking – and lately, Creative FRONTLINE with Producer, Ginamarie "Tracker" Rangel Quinone on KPFK 90.7, Pacifica Network, and Salem-News.com.

Producer - Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone (Chiricahua Apache)

Tracker is an activist, educator and media producer. She has produced episodes on Oak Flat, Peehee Muhu (Thacker Pass), 1960’s Berkeley Recycling Innovator, Clifford Humphrey, and The Archaeologist’s Dilemma among others. She studied Broadcasting at Palomar College and Digital Media at Arizona State University.

Filmography - Robert Lundahl

Who Are My People?

How the world's energy companies met their match in a small group of Native American elders in the hottest desert on the planet.

Song on the Water

In what has grown to become a yearly tradition, aboriginal communities of western Washington and the coastal and inland waterways of British Columbia participate in sea voyages in ancient dugout canoes carved from cedar. This is the story of one such voyage, and what it means to the "pullers," ground crews, and elders who share the waves, the traditions, and a vision of a positive future for Coast Salish and Nuu Chah Nulth youth.

Unconquering the Last Frontier

Unconquering the Last Frontier chronicles the historic saga of the damming and undamming of Washington's Elwha River. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the ongoing salmon crisis in the Pacific Northwest, the film tells the story of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's struggle to survive in the shadow of hydropower development.

Testimonials

Linda Wiechman (Lower Elwha Klallam)

My name is Linda Wiechman and I am a member of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe located in Washington State. I was also the President of the Long House Association for 19 years. I am writing to you on behalf of my dear friend Robert Lundahl. I had met Robert at a screening of "Unconquering the Last Frontier" in Seattle and we became fast friends. Robert was working with our tribal Elders and members of our tribe on the dam removal here in Washington State in 2000 creating the film.

In 2005 I had asked Robert to do a documentary film on Tribal Journeys in which we named the film "Song on the Water". Robert worked with his tribal friends here in Elwha and their names are Al Charles Jr, John Boyd Sr. Darrel Charles, and my late Uncle Johnson Charles along with other elders who have made this film a success in which PBS showed this film in 80 cities from coast to coast.

In 2004 Robert Joined the LongHouse Association as Executive Director, Our Board of Directors were all Natives from two different tribes, Elwha and Makah here in Washington State. I believe that having Robert Lundahl at your side I know you will be successful as I have watched him work with various other tribes and worked closely with the elders to reach their audience through film. Robert is a great man to have on your team working on environmental and Native project's as he did with ours.

Bill Powers, P.E.

I have worked with Robert Lundahl for a number of years on efforts to protect undeveloped Southern California desert areas from high impact utility scale renewable energy projects. These projects can cover as much as 10 square miles of land. Mr. Lundahl has been instrumental in raising the profile of the cultural significance of these deserts sites through his films “Who Are My People?” The films focused on the unique cultural sites that would be lost, and the significance of these sites to Native Americans if the renewable energy projects moved forward as planned.

The communication and outreach conducted by Mr. Lundahl for La Cuna (Blythe, CA), Protect Our Communities Foundation (San Diego, CA) and Californians for Renewable Energy CARE (Santa Cruz , CA) played a major role in delaying or stopping one of the most damaging utility-scale renewable projects in the Blythe area. He has also been an effective communicator of the no-impact urban rooftop solar alternative to high impact desert projects.

Cynthia Zeiden, Zeiden Media

Robert Lundahl is an Emmy® award winning Director and Producer (among many other things!). I've had the great experience to work with him on several projects.

I met Robert when he won an award through the International Television Association (ITVA) for his series, "Digital Journey: Stories from a Networked Planet." I asked him after the event if I could work with him to distribute that series nationally through PBS stations.

We did work together on it and the programs aired over 4,000 times on numerous PBS stations. The second project we worked on was to distribute Robert's documentary, "Song on the Water" and it has so far aired 178 times on 81 PBS stations. We also distributed another of his documentaries, "Unconquering the Last Frontier" through PBS stations and it was aired by many as well.

Robert is a great producer because he tells the stories of his subjects in a way that draws the viewer into the topic emotionally. He puts great feeling into his productions. He is a great person to collaborate with on ideas and strategies. I hope to be distributing his works for many years to come!

Robert Lundahl’s company, Agence RLA has worked with these high profile

Brands

Adobe Systems, Amdahl, Bank of America, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Credit Suisse, Dell, Federal Express, Fujitsu, Kodak, Hansen Medical, Heard Museum, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Lockheed Martin, NACHA, Sun Microsystems, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. City University of New York, Hunter College, Pratt Institute.

He works with Communities and non profits including Chemehuevi tribal leadership, the Native American Land Conservancy, the Ah Mut Pipa Foundation, the Rex Foundation, the Protect our Communities Foundation, CAlifornians for Renewable Energy and others.

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