Bring Them Home/Aiskótáhkapiyaaya chronicles a decades-long initiative by members of the Blackfoot Confederacy to bring wild buffalo (Blackfeet: iinnii) back to the Blackfeet Reservation. A thriving wild buffalo population would not only reconnect Blackfeet with a central part of their heritage, spirituality and identity, but would provide economic opportunities and healing for the community. Along the way, however, the initiative faces obstacles from ranchers who see the buffalo as a threat to the cattle ranches that dominate the land and are a legacy of colonization.

Ivan MacDonald is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and an enrolled member of the Blackfeet tribe. His most recent project Bring Them Home won the Big Sky Award at the 2024 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Bring Them Home is Executive Produced and narrated by Oscar nominated actress Lily Gladstone. He was an inaugural fellow for the Netflix and Illuminative Producers fellowship and was an inaugural recipient of the Hulu and Firelight

Kindling fund. Currently, he is the 2024 Mark Silverman honoree for Sundance’s Producing Lab. With his sister Ivy, he is also directing When They Were Here which is a feature-length documentary about the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls crisis told through

the lens of their family and community. His work has been supported by Sundance, ITVS, and IDA. 

Ivy MacDonald is a director, producer, writer and cinematographer based in Montana. She is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet tribe. Her most recent project Bring Them Home premiered at the 2024 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Bring Them Home is executive produced and narrated by Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone. In late 2023 she co-wrote and co-directed her first narrative short film titled Buffalo Spirit, which will premiere later this year. She also helped produce Murder in Bighorn which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and aired nationally on Showtime. Ivy also won an Emmy for her producing work on the

2020 ESPN shot Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible. She is currently directing for her second feature length documentary titled When They Were Here, a documentary about the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls crisis within her community. When They Were Here has received support from Sundance, IDA and ITVS.

Daniel Glick is a director, writer, producer, cinematographer and editor. For his short film, Iniskim (2019), he was nominated for three Emmys (directing, producing and photography) and won one for photography. His first feature documentary film, A Place to Stand, the true story of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, broadcast nationally on PBS in 2018. He has directed and produced half a dozen fiction shorts and several dozen short and branded documentaries. Three of his most recent personal projects were Our Last Refuge, Iniskim, and Bring Them Home - all short films set on the Blackfeet Reservation that he worked on with Blackfeet tribal members.