Jon Proudstar

Native Tucsonan and Film Making Veteran of 25 years, Jon Proudstar has acted in over 34 Motion pictures and television shows. He's worked alongside actors such as Tim Roth, Xavier Bardiem, Kurt Russel, Val Kilmer, Vigo Mortinson, and Lou Diamond Phillips to name a few. He most recently appeared in FX's "Reservation Dogs" created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi.

In 1998, Proudstar was one of ten Native Americans chosen for the Sundance Film Institute’s Writers Lab. In 2005, he was selected for prestigious Sundance Film Institutes Director’s Lab where he participated as an actor. Proudstar then wrote, directed, produced, and starred in his Award-Winning short "Dude Vision" for an astonishing budget of $147. Also in 2005 he won the Tribecca Film Festivals Screen Writers Competition for co-writing the screenplay "Up the River."

Proudstar has appeared in several Independently produced films that have been selected for The Sundance Film Festival. In 2009, he released his first feature film So Close to Perfect.

In 1996, Proudstar created the comic book "Tribal Force," which was hailed as the first all Indian Super Hero Comic book in the history of the United States. In 2009, "Tribal Force" was inducted into the Smithsonian Institutes Natives In Pop Culture collection.

With a career spanning over 30 years working with Survivors of child molestation and violent youth offenders, Proudstar’s dedication and commitment to the youth of Tucson, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, and the Tohono O’odaham Nation can only be described as a labor of love.