Joey Clift
@joeytainment.bsky.social
Emmy & Peabody Nominated. Enrolled Cowlitz. Comedian. TV Writer. Cat Guy.
Writer - Spirit Rangers on Netflix + Molly of Denali on PBS + Way more things!
Watch my new digital series at http://gonenative.tv
Writer - Spirit Rangers on Netflix + Molly of Denali on PBS + Way more things!
Watch my new digital series at http://gonenative.tv
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Joey Clift
@joeytainment.bsky.social
· Nov 15
I made an easy to follow list of cool Native and Indigenous folks for Native American Heritage Month! Click "follow all" and share this post or you're a colonizer!
We sold out The Autry!! It was so amazing to screen Pow! with Eric Micheal Hernandez and Loren Waters and share the stage with Bird Runningwater. Vying for awards is a hard process and it’s so validating to have people cheering us on. If you’re an Academy voter, consider Pow!, Tiger and Courage!
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We sold out The Autry!! It was so amazing to screen Pow! with Eric Micheal Hernandez and Loren Waters and share the stage with Bird Runningwater. Vying for awards is a hard process and it’s so validating to have people cheering us on. If you’re an Academy voter, consider Pow!, Tiger and Courage!
This Friday, 11/21 @ 4:15pm I’m screening Pow! + more of my films at Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, VA! Come, see me talk about my work, maybe get a free Pow! keychain, and hear me talk about the fest on Sifter with @tvjerry.bsky.social !
November 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This Friday, 11/21 @ 4:15pm I’m screening Pow! + more of my films at Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, VA! Come, see me talk about my work, maybe get a free Pow! keychain, and hear me talk about the fest on Sifter with @tvjerry.bsky.social !
Reposted by Joey Clift
For your consideration!
For Your Consideration:
Pow! - Best Animated Short Film
Directed by Joey Clift
"Pow! Invites viewers into a big Indian world with an even bigger heart."
- Julian Brave Noisecat, Director, SugarCane
"Everything a good short should be!"
- Mike Rianda, Director, The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Pow! - Best Animated Short Film
Directed by Joey Clift
"Pow! Invites viewers into a big Indian world with an even bigger heart."
- Julian Brave Noisecat, Director, SugarCane
"Everything a good short should be!"
- Mike Rianda, Director, The Mitchells vs. the Machines
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
For your consideration!
For Your Consideration:
Pow! - Best Animated Short Film
Directed by Joey Clift
"Pow! Invites viewers into a big Indian world with an even bigger heart."
- Julian Brave Noisecat, Director, SugarCane
"Everything a good short should be!"
- Mike Rianda, Director, The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Pow! - Best Animated Short Film
Directed by Joey Clift
"Pow! Invites viewers into a big Indian world with an even bigger heart."
- Julian Brave Noisecat, Director, SugarCane
"Everything a good short should be!"
- Mike Rianda, Director, The Mitchells vs. the Machines
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
For Your Consideration:
Pow! - Best Animated Short Film
Directed by Joey Clift
"Pow! Invites viewers into a big Indian world with an even bigger heart."
- Julian Brave Noisecat, Director, SugarCane
"Everything a good short should be!"
- Mike Rianda, Director, The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Pow! - Best Animated Short Film
Directed by Joey Clift
"Pow! Invites viewers into a big Indian world with an even bigger heart."
- Julian Brave Noisecat, Director, SugarCane
"Everything a good short should be!"
- Mike Rianda, Director, The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Today I screened Pow! and a few of my other films for @mayor.lacity.gov 's staff at Los Angeles City Hall! I feel so lucky to get these opportunities and I can’t thank Anthony Pico enough for the invite and the teams that worked so hard to make this screening happen.
Happy NAHM Ya'll!
Happy NAHM Ya'll!
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Today I screened Pow! and a few of my other films for @mayor.lacity.gov 's staff at Los Angeles City Hall! I feel so lucky to get these opportunities and I can’t thank Anthony Pico enough for the invite and the teams that worked so hard to make this screening happen.
Happy NAHM Ya'll!
Happy NAHM Ya'll!
It’s genuinely so cool to see Pow! get all of this Oscars’ buzz. Thank you to the amazing folks at @cartoonbrew.bsky.social for this interview and for their extremely kind words about the film. If you’re in Los Angeles, come to our FYC event with Courage and Tiger at The Autry on 11/19!
November 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
It’s genuinely so cool to see Pow! get all of this Oscars’ buzz. Thank you to the amazing folks at @cartoonbrew.bsky.social for this interview and for their extremely kind words about the film. If you’re in Los Angeles, come to our FYC event with Courage and Tiger at The Autry on 11/19!
Reposted by Joey Clift
Go see the short I’m part of! It {may} be trying for an Scmoscar run at being the first Indigenous Animated Short to get the gold guy!
Pow! has even more festival screenings to round out Native American Heritage Month!
11/8 - Yucca Valley Film Festival
11/14 - The Root Experience
11/22 - Three Rivers Film Festival
11/23 - IndigeNash
11/23 - @laskinsfest.bsky.social
Come out and powwow with us!
11/8 - Yucca Valley Film Festival
11/14 - The Root Experience
11/22 - Three Rivers Film Festival
11/23 - IndigeNash
11/23 - @laskinsfest.bsky.social
Come out and powwow with us!
November 16, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Go see the short I’m part of! It {may} be trying for an Scmoscar run at being the first Indigenous Animated Short to get the gold guy!
Pow! has even more festival screenings to round out Native American Heritage Month!
11/8 - Yucca Valley Film Festival
11/14 - The Root Experience
11/22 - Three Rivers Film Festival
11/23 - IndigeNash
11/23 - @laskinsfest.bsky.social
Come out and powwow with us!
11/8 - Yucca Valley Film Festival
11/14 - The Root Experience
11/22 - Three Rivers Film Festival
11/23 - IndigeNash
11/23 - @laskinsfest.bsky.social
Come out and powwow with us!
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Pow! has even more festival screenings to round out Native American Heritage Month!
11/8 - Yucca Valley Film Festival
11/14 - The Root Experience
11/22 - Three Rivers Film Festival
11/23 - IndigeNash
11/23 - @laskinsfest.bsky.social
Come out and powwow with us!
11/8 - Yucca Valley Film Festival
11/14 - The Root Experience
11/22 - Three Rivers Film Festival
11/23 - IndigeNash
11/23 - @laskinsfest.bsky.social
Come out and powwow with us!
In one of the first times in history, Native directed films have qualified in every Oscar short film category! Celebrate Pow!, Tiger and Courage at The Autry in Los Angeles Wednesday, 11/19 followed by a Q & A with the filmmakers moderated by Native Hollywood legend Bird Runningwater!
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
In one of the first times in history, Native directed films have qualified in every Oscar short film category! Celebrate Pow!, Tiger and Courage at The Autry in Los Angeles Wednesday, 11/19 followed by a Q & A with the filmmakers moderated by Native Hollywood legend Bird Runningwater!
Reposted by Joey Clift
My interview with @joeytainment.bsky.social about his #Oscar-eligible animated short, #Pow! cartooncontender.com/news-and-rev...
2026 Oscar-Eligible Animated Short Pow! Director Joey Clift Interview
Cartoon Contender speaks with director Joey Clift about his Oscar-eligible animated short, Pow!
cartooncontender.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
My interview with @joeytainment.bsky.social about his #Oscar-eligible animated short, #Pow! cartooncontender.com/news-and-rev...
Last weekend Pow! screened at Yucca Valley Film Festival and we even came home with the Best Animated Short Award! This was Pow!’s 11th award win and our 60th festival selection over the past 6 months. To celebrate, here’s a picture of what my hair does in the wind!
November 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Last weekend Pow! screened at Yucca Valley Film Festival and we even came home with the Best Animated Short Award! This was Pow!’s 11th award win and our 60th festival selection over the past 6 months. To celebrate, here’s a picture of what my hair does in the wind!
The awesome folks at @cartooncontender.bsky.social interviewed me about Pow!’s Oscars eligibility! They do fantastic work covering awards hopefuls in the animation space and I could not be more grateful for all of the kind words they had for our film. Check it out!
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The awesome folks at @cartooncontender.bsky.social interviewed me about Pow!’s Oscars eligibility! They do fantastic work covering awards hopefuls in the animation space and I could not be more grateful for all of the kind words they had for our film. Check it out!
Pow! has a bunch of super fun screenings across the country in November!
11/8 - Hibulb Cultural Center Film Festival & St. Louis International Film Festival
11/20 & 11/22 - Cucalorus Film Festival
11/21 - Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival
Come through if you’re in the area!
11/8 - Hibulb Cultural Center Film Festival & St. Louis International Film Festival
11/20 & 11/22 - Cucalorus Film Festival
11/21 - Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival
Come through if you’re in the area!
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Pow! has a bunch of super fun screenings across the country in November!
11/8 - Hibulb Cultural Center Film Festival & St. Louis International Film Festival
11/20 & 11/22 - Cucalorus Film Festival
11/21 - Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival
Come through if you’re in the area!
11/8 - Hibulb Cultural Center Film Festival & St. Louis International Film Festival
11/20 & 11/22 - Cucalorus Film Festival
11/21 - Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival
Come through if you’re in the area!
Last month I had two in person Pow! screenings across the country from each other on the same day! Thanks to Newport Beach Film Festival for screening us in SoCal at 11am on 10/18, Potlatch Fund for screening us at 8pm Ilani in WA and to my flights for being on time so I could make these events!
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Last month I had two in person Pow! screenings across the country from each other on the same day! Thanks to Newport Beach Film Festival for screening us in SoCal at 11am on 10/18, Potlatch Fund for screening us at 8pm Ilani in WA and to my flights for being on time so I could make these events!
I'm in NYC this week, desperately trying to get an invite to Andrew Cuomo's official election night watch party so I can watch him lose in person.
November 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I'm in NYC this week, desperately trying to get an invite to Andrew Cuomo's official election night watch party so I can watch him lose in person.
What a cool way to start Native American Heritage Month! Pow qualified for The Academy Awards in the "Best Animated Short" category! Thank you to @animag.bsky.social for including us in their Oscar Watch and for everyone who continues to boost this film. Tell your @theacademyusa.bsky.social friends!
November 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
What a cool way to start Native American Heritage Month! Pow qualified for The Academy Awards in the "Best Animated Short" category! Thank you to @animag.bsky.social for including us in their Oscar Watch and for everyone who continues to boost this film. Tell your @theacademyusa.bsky.social friends!
Last weekend I was invited to screen Pow! in front of hundreds of members of my tribe followed by a talkback with Cowlitz culture keeper Suzanne Donaldson. Here’s a selfie we took onstage with our tribe’s chair Bill Iyall. I’m so humbled that I get to do this stuff!
November 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Last weekend I was invited to screen Pow! in front of hundreds of members of my tribe followed by a talkback with Cowlitz culture keeper Suzanne Donaldson. Here’s a selfie we took onstage with our tribe’s chair Bill Iyall. I’m so humbled that I get to do this stuff!
I wrote the Halloween episode of Molly of Denali and in only two weeks, a clip from it has nearly 2 millions views on IG! It’s insane to me that the cuts to PBS robbed us of more seasons of this fun, Native show. People love it and it’s a hit, but that’s not enough I guess?
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I wrote the Halloween episode of Molly of Denali and in only two weeks, a clip from it has nearly 2 millions views on IG! It’s insane to me that the cuts to PBS robbed us of more seasons of this fun, Native show. People love it and it’s a hit, but that’s not enough I guess?
A lot of people have been asking me how I’m voting in the 2025 Animation Guild elections so I put together this voter’s guide!
Turnout for these elections can be low, but if elected these folks would really help TAG fight hard for animation workers during our next negotiations!
Turnout for these elections can be low, but if elected these folks would really help TAG fight hard for animation workers during our next negotiations!
October 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A lot of people have been asking me how I’m voting in the 2025 Animation Guild elections so I put together this voter’s guide!
Turnout for these elections can be low, but if elected these folks would really help TAG fight hard for animation workers during our next negotiations!
Turnout for these elections can be low, but if elected these folks would really help TAG fight hard for animation workers during our next negotiations!
Today @goldie.bsky.social 's book Personal Branding for Introverts is officially out in the world!
If you’re at all someone who struggles with "finding your brand", I recommend picking this book up. It’s written with heart, and in a way that is easy for anyone to understand!
If you’re at all someone who struggles with "finding your brand", I recommend picking this book up. It’s written with heart, and in a way that is easy for anyone to understand!
October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Today @goldie.bsky.social 's book Personal Branding for Introverts is officially out in the world!
If you’re at all someone who struggles with "finding your brand", I recommend picking this book up. It’s written with heart, and in a way that is easy for anyone to understand!
If you’re at all someone who struggles with "finding your brand", I recommend picking this book up. It’s written with heart, and in a way that is easy for anyone to understand!
PNW friends, I’m screening Pow! as part of Potlatch Makes Possible tomorrow! Potlatch Fund is a great organization helping fund Native artists in the Pacific Northwest and they’re holding this event at my tribe’s casino Ilani in Ridgefield, WA! Come through if you’re in the area!
October 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
PNW friends, I’m screening Pow! as part of Potlatch Makes Possible tomorrow! Potlatch Fund is a great organization helping fund Native artists in the Pacific Northwest and they’re holding this event at my tribe’s casino Ilani in Ridgefield, WA! Come through if you’re in the area!
There are even more Pow! screenings in October and I’m so excited about them! Come through if you’re in the area!
10/18 - Hawai‘i International Film Festival
10/19 & 10/25 - Montclair Film Festival
10/25 - Atlanta Children's Film Festival
10/25 - Chicago International Film Festival
10/18 - Hawai‘i International Film Festival
10/19 & 10/25 - Montclair Film Festival
10/25 - Atlanta Children's Film Festival
10/25 - Chicago International Film Festival
October 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
There are even more Pow! screenings in October and I’m so excited about them! Come through if you’re in the area!
10/18 - Hawai‘i International Film Festival
10/19 & 10/25 - Montclair Film Festival
10/25 - Atlanta Children's Film Festival
10/25 - Chicago International Film Festival
10/18 - Hawai‘i International Film Festival
10/19 & 10/25 - Montclair Film Festival
10/25 - Atlanta Children's Film Festival
10/25 - Chicago International Film Festival
As a Native I’m all for us celebrating Columbus Day, I just wish they moved it from early October to January 9th, the day Columbus and his men maybe had sex with a bunch of manatees which is for real, no joke, detailed in his travel journal. Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!
October 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
As a Native I’m all for us celebrating Columbus Day, I just wish they moved it from early October to January 9th, the day Columbus and his men maybe had sex with a bunch of manatees which is for real, no joke, detailed in his travel journal. Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!
Oh dang! There are even more Pow! screenings in the United States in October! Come through!
11th & 12th - Poulsbo Film Festival
17th & 19th - Tallgrass Film Festival
18th - Newport Beach Film Festival & DIFF Shorts
11th & 12th - Poulsbo Film Festival
17th & 19th - Tallgrass Film Festival
18th - Newport Beach Film Festival & DIFF Shorts
October 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Oh dang! There are even more Pow! screenings in the United States in October! Come through!
11th & 12th - Poulsbo Film Festival
17th & 19th - Tallgrass Film Festival
18th - Newport Beach Film Festival & DIFF Shorts
11th & 12th - Poulsbo Film Festival
17th & 19th - Tallgrass Film Festival
18th - Newport Beach Film Festival & DIFF Shorts
I wrote a Molly of Denali episode this season! It’s about Native themed Halloween costumes and how to celebrate a person respectfully. Thanks to Quannah ChasingHorse for letting us use her likeness!
I’m going to miss this show and this team so much.
Molly & PBS Kids forever ❤️
I’m going to miss this show and this team so much.
Molly & PBS Kids forever ❤️
October 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I wrote a Molly of Denali episode this season! It’s about Native themed Halloween costumes and how to celebrate a person respectfully. Thanks to Quannah ChasingHorse for letting us use her likeness!
I’m going to miss this show and this team so much.
Molly & PBS Kids forever ❤️
I’m going to miss this show and this team so much.
Molly & PBS Kids forever ❤️