Nathaniel is Owner and CEO of He Kha Productions (aka H/K Production), an Indigenous media entertainment service business based in Santa Clara Pueblo, NM. He is an alumnus of the IAIA Class of 2020 with degrees in Cinematic Arts and Technology, Art History, and Native American Studies.
Nathaniel Fuentes is a creative and meaningful storyteller who has taken life’s experiences and has woven them into inspiring visions of a complex world through moving images, word, sound, and art.
Nathaniel’s latest 2022 documentary film release of "NEW: ART is Culture, CULTURE is Art", has been screened in Los Angeles, CA; Santa Fe, NM; Stillwater, Ok; and Richmond, VA and is now awaiting national and international distribution. He is currently producing a photo series called "Indigenous Sisterhood Series," which features artists such as Natalie Benally, Renata Yazzie, Povi Romero, and Than Povi Martinez. It is set for completion in the summer of 2023.
Nathaniel has received awards for the screenplay titled "Pueblo Stories: A Perfect World", which is a part of the greater “Pueblo Stories” series and is in the process of script development as a feature film franchise. He is also a recent recipient of the 2020 New Mexico Senator John Pinto Native American Filmmakers Award.
Nathaniel has a long history of event planning and execution in Northern New Mexico while attending Northern New Mexico College from 2008 to 2011. He is a founding member of the Non-Profit REZilience Organization (REZARTX) based in Albuquerque, NM where he served the organization from 2014 to 2020 as Producer. He currently holds the position, Vice-President of the Board for Two Worlds Theater located in Albuquerque, NM and is an Indigenous feature filmmaker/producer. He has worked with many other local, regional, and international music artists as Wakeself, DEF-I, JordanT, Supaman, and Rudy Ibarra; and has collaborated with many indigenous artists as Patricia Michaels, Randy "Boogie" Barton, Vanessa Bowman, Steven Paul Judd, and Boddy Wilson on productions and events.
His future projects and ambitions are to establish an environmentally conscious clothing brand, utilizing TEK (Traditional Environmental Knowledge) to create micro economies for Indigenous communities by the beginning of 2024.
I'm a storyteller through written word, still photography, and moving images. My stories have been developed and come from a place found within my indigenous genealogical ties to Santa Clara Pueblo, NM, but has been inspired by my own life by being split between living in the violent environment of Northeast Los Angeles, CA and the internal racial ideologies of generations of "Blood Quantium" natives.
These extremes have lead to realities that have stimulated a space of survival through creative expression through storytelling, combining to tell the stories that are found in the shadow of dark events, and cultural experience of not having parents from the same place tribe.
My current fictional works are the transformations taken from these experiences, mythologies of Puebloan culture, and oral history which communicate a vivid, surreal, and passionate characters in a world of many challenges and few but great triumphs.
These extremes have lead to realities that have stimulated a space of survival through creative expression through storytelling, combining to tell the stories that are found in the shadow of dark events, and cultural experience of not having parents from the same place tribe.
My current fictional works are the transformations taken from these experiences, mythologies of Puebloan culture, and oral history which communicate a vivid, surreal, and passionate characters in a world of many challenges and few but great triumphs.
My experience is my biggest motivator and inspiration, to my art form. My experience comes from the doors of opportunity not being opened, and from a place to survive from one day to the next, aways finding away to live. My motivator, a mentality to not fail, because failure is death, and succeeding is the ability to live to do it all again another day. My inspiration is found in my children, knowing that I have gone through awful places, and I am a live because I have a greater purpose to fulfill, and a legacy that lives in them.
The most rewarding experience has been to be recognized by my creative peers for the impactful storytelling I have shared which is only because of the ability itself to have the privilege to sit and write, or to film the images and conversations to a story that is in one way or another a chance to be heard. In many situations, individuals as myself have been silenced through death or from being stifled by indigenous community for not having the right lineage to tell a story.
so I tell my own.
