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Filmmaker Bio

Julia Dengel

Julia Dengel was producer, director, and cinematographer for Cowboys, Indians, & Lawyers. In the film, a massive Western water project pits a radical Native American activist against his own tribal government and their politically connected lawyer. In an intimate portrait of pork barrel politics, Cowboys, Indians, & Lawyers explores Anglo-Indian relations and the American political system through a rural community battle over money, power and water.

Dengel has worked as a documentary cinematographer since 1993. She's recently shot on films such as I Bring What I Love, a feature documentary on Senegalese superstar Youssou NDour, Team Lioness, a feature documentary on American women soldiers who have fought in Iraq, and I'm From Rolling Stone, an MTV reality series.

Dengel’s other directing credits include A Sense of Place, a short documentary chronicling the history of electricity in southwest Colorado. This piece was one product of a yearlong oral history project funded by the Colorado Historical Society and the US West Foundation. She also directed the documentary short, The Wild San Juans which explores the human relationship to the wild national forest lands in Southwest Colorado.

Dengel shot for Jennifer Fox’s Learning to Swim, a documentary on Namkhai Norbu, a Tibetan Buddhist master living in exile in Italy, and served as Associate Editor for An American Love Story, a ten-part documentary series co-produced with American Playhouse that aired nationally in 1999.

Her work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Colorado Council on the Arts, Independent Television Service, the Wellspring Foundation, the Ettinger Foundation, the Ruth H. Brown Foundation, the Kenney Foundation, the Haymarket People’s Fund, and the Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media.

Film Credits

Post-production and graphic facilities provided by Rocky Mountain PBS

Appearing in the film:

Aerials supplied by Lighthawk, Merry Schroeder, Wings of Change, G.L. Scarborough

Transcription: Jessica Ball, Rose Dow, Mary Kelly, Cynthia Trautmann

Special thanks to:

Archival film and video materials from the collections of the Library of Congress

Archival photos courtesy the Southern Ute Indian Cultural Museum

“Big Sandy River”
Traditional, performed by Badly Bent
Courtesy of Badly Bent

“The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith California”
“Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of King Phillip XIV of Spain”
“Revelation on the Banks of Pawtuxent”
Written and performed by John Fahey
© Terrapin Music (BMI)
Courtesy of Takoma Records/Concord Music Group, Inc.

“Indian Pacific RR Blues”
“Steamboat Gwine Round De Bend”
“Orinda Moraga”
“Worried Blues”
“Summer Cat By My Door”
“On the Sunny Side of the Ocean”
Written & performed by John Fahey
© Tortoise Music (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Takoma Records/Concord Music Group, Inc.

“Poor Boy”
Written by John Fahey and Bukka White, performed by John Fahey
© Terrapin Music
Courtesy of Takoma Records/Concord Music Group, Inc.

“Lion”
“The Yellow Princess”
“Requiem for Russell Blaine Cooper”
Written & performed by John Fahey
© Terrapin Music (BMI)
Courtesy of Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company

“Lava On Waikiki”
Written & performed by John Fahey
© Tortoise Music (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Rounder Records

“Meridian”
Written by Matter Flinner, performed by Phillips, Grier, & Flinner
© Compass Records
Courtesy of Compass Records

Cowboys, Indians, & Lawyers is a co-production of Walking Shadow Productions LLC, KUED and Rocky Mountain PBS in association with Independent Television Service with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.

This program was produced by Walking Shadow Productions LLC who is solely responsible for its content.

© 2005 Walking Shadow Productions LLC, All rights reserved.

Web Credits

Web Site by Mark Pfohl

Web Production, Development, Design, and Programming: Mark Pfohl

Web site made possible by:

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Photo of Julia Dengel by Lisa Sumi.

"Cowboys, Indians, & Lawyers" is a co-production of Walking Shadow Productions LLC, KUED, and Rocky Mountain PBS in association with ITVS, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

© 2006 Walking Shadow Productions LLC. All Rights Reserved. Published March 1, 2007

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