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James Cawley

@jamesdcawley

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Shoshone Filmmaker, Cinematographer, & Storyteller
Creative Director: @centerstarcreative & @nwbshoshone
🦅🎥 Damme Apah Ne Ma’i Wa’i

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The IMAX film I shot/directed will premiere is next week! If you’d like to attend message me or leave a comment and I’ll make sure you are on the guest list. My good friend and National Geographic photographer @salvarezphoto will be our Keynote speaker. There will be a reception dinner, poster signing and song/dance performances by NWBSN Tribal members as well. Come out for a great night and help support our film!

If you can’t make it you can see the film playing every hour on the hour at the new Antelope Island Visitor Center’s IMAX Theater 🎥

Damme Apah Ne Mai’i Wa’i! 🦅

#indiginous #native #imax #filmmaking

@zeisscinematography @tiffencompany @antelopeislandstatepark @reddigitalcinema @zeisscameralensesamericas taken in Antelope Island State Park Visitor Center by @jamesdcawley

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Just wrapped a week of shooting an IMAX film for my Tribe @nwbshoshone with my family and an amazing crew. So many beautiful in moments captured. Thank you @zeisscameralensesamericas for providing the Supreme Primes to capture these moments 🎥. This week it’s off to the edit bay, sound and color. Damme Apah Ne Ma’i Wa’i 🦅

#cinematography #filmmaking #indiginous taken in Bear River Massacre Site by @jamesdcawley

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Sneak peek at a passion project I’ve been working on.

🦅 “Shoshone Tale” is a visually rich animated film that follows Hoochoo, a young Shoshone boy chosen by his people to retrieve a powerful, sacred flower hidden deep in the wild. But when the mischievous trickster Coyote steals it from his hands, Hoochoo must journey through fear, failure, and ancestral memory to reclaim his strength. Set against the breathtaking landscape of a Shoshone Landscape, forests, wetlands, and high cliffs, this story blends Indigenous storytelling with cinematic fantasy to explore themes of identity, resilience, and the quiet power of tradition. As light returns to the darkened forest, Hoochoo discovers that true strength comes not from what he carries, but from who walks with him — even when he walks alone. A film by James Cawley, a proud descendant of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation.

#nativeamerican #animated #filmmaking #utah #filmmakerslife #naturelovers #filmmaker #westbysouthwest #native #fyp taken in Utah by @jamesdcawley

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A story 21 years in the making….and it still keeps getting better.

I love you @krystal.cawley ❤️ You are a beautiful and wonderful beyond measure. Thanks for putting up with all my weirdness 😘 taken in St. George, Utah by @jamesdcawley

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There is good news about a pause in border wall construction in Big Bend, but in the lower Pecos, construction continues and the threat continues.

The Lower Pecos contains hundreds of painted shelters, monumentally huge pictograph panels older than the pyramids. As Dr. Carolyn Boyd writes about the White Shaman Mural in our book Rock Art: an American Story,

"Nothing about... the mural is random, Like words arranged on a page, every figure is intentionally placed, and each layer of paint represents a layer of human action, decision, and meaning."

Follow the links in our bio for more information about the book and about threats to rock art in the Pecos and beyond. There are things you can do, ways to make your voice heard.

Images 1&2) 2,000 year old images from the Devil's River drainage in Val Verde County, TX.

Image 3) The rugged canyonlands of Seminole Canyon State Park. The proposed vehicle barrier would cross the canyon here.

Image 4&5) The White Shaman Mural.

Image 6) The Rio Grande and border with Mexico at Seminole Canyon. The border wall will cut this land off from the United States.

Image 7) Fate Bell Shelter in Seminole Canyon State Park.

Image 8) A large, red, anthropomorphic figure in Panther Cave, part of Seminole Canyon State Park. The border wall will cut this section of the park off, essentially ceding it to Mexico. by @jamesdcawley

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Sneak peak at what @ancientartarchive is building for Lake Amistad National Recreation Area. The video is by the talented @jamesdcawley of Centerstar Creative.
Before Lake Amistad, before the pyramids in Egypt, people came to this canyon to paint their sacred stories. For more details about this place and threats to it visit @shumlaarchaeologicalcenter taken in Seminole Canyon State Park - Texas Parks and Wildlife by @jamesdcawley

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Dust and Echoes: The Hollow Files taken in St. George, Utah by @jamesdcawley

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In 1968 a nerve agent drifted off a U.S. Army test range and killed roughly 6,000 sheep in a Utah valley overnight. The proof was buried for thirty years. Hear the full story on the Dust and Echoes podcast.

#shorts #history #coverup #unsolved taken in Salt Lake City, Utah by @jamesdcawley

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I remember the first time I met Professor Bigfoot…

#dustandechoes #filmmakin #80svibes taken in St. George, Utah by @jamesdcawley

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1755. The Royal Navy boarded a ship that wouldn’t be built for 250 years. What he found could change EVERYTHING.

The full story I call, “THE SOUL TRAP” is featured in the second Science Fiction Horror Anthology called;

-WHEN THE HORIZON LIES-

“Dark Science Fiction & Horror Stories”

📍Check it out now on Amazon.

🔗 Link in description 👀

#BookTok #HorrorBooks #ShortStories #darkfiction by @jamesdcawley

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In Utah, the world ended on a quiet Sunday morning.

🧦 Jed Thorn was looking for a matching sock when he looked out his bedroom window and saw his elderly neighbor running barefoot across her driveway with the

🧟‍♂️ The HOA president was sprinting after her on all fours.

🗺️ His wife was three hundred miles away in Moab. His daughter was brushing her teeth getting ready for church as he watched the carnage outside.

⏱️ Within one hour, Salt Lake City had fallen. He had ten hours to cross three hundred miles of hell to reach a mesa called Dead Horse Point, where the National Guard was about to blow the only land bridge connecting it to the world.

🛻 He had a stolen truck. A six-year-old. And a sun setting fast on a dying world.

ISLAND IN THE SKY

👉 AN INTENSE NEW POST APOCALYPTIC HORROR ZOMBIE SURVIVAL STORY 👈

Read the full story (and others JUST like it) in my new book for people like us!

📖 “Stories from the Dying World”.

🔗 GET The Book! 👉 Link in bio.

#scarystories #PostApocalyptic #ZombieFiction #horror #utah taken in Dead Horse Point State Park by @jamesdcawley

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The Utah desert at midnight.
A solo camper.
A voice outside the tent that knows his name.

He had been taught the rules as a child.

THE RULES (Do NOT Forget These)

😙 Do not whistle after dark.

🤗 Do not invite the dark inside.

🤫 Never, ever give the darkness your name.

He had forgotten the rules.

Now there is something with too many knuckles pressing into the wall of his tent. Something that speaks with his father’s voice.

Something that knows how long it can wait.

Skinwalker.

The episode of Dust and Echoes is out now.
Link in bio.

If you liked this episode, my new book
“Stories from the Dying World”
is available now at

EnterTheDust.com

#DustAndEchoes #Skinwalker #UtahDesert SouthwestMystery Horror NavajoFolklore Podcast CinematicStorytelling ScaryStories DesertHorro taken in Desert, Utah by @jamesdcawley

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