Peshawn Bread is breaking Indigenous female stereotypes on the big and small screens

Check out their debut film, "The Daily Life of Mistress Red"

Video Transcript

PESHAWN BREAD: My advice to Native women and to young Native girls wanting to get into filmmaking, I would just say, be honest and tell stories that are true to your heart and stand by those. And for one second don't ever doubt yourself.

"The Daily Life of Mistress Red" is a film that's very close to my heart for many reasons. One of the main reasons being that there were so many Native women who worked on set and who were a part of the creative team. We had a Native female producer. We had two lead-- like three actresses that were Native in the film.

Behind the scenes there were a lot of Native women, too. And I feel like, especially when you're talking about Native women, if there's ever a film or topic about Native women, there should be Native women in that room no matter what it is.

I think the portrayals in my film and challenging it within cinema is important. But I think the way that I'm challenging it is kind of letting Native women have a narrative of their own when it comes to sexuality, also having it through humor. I feel like a lot of the times that we see Native women on screen, there's usually violence. And it's usually in a drama setting and never in a comedic setting.