![Mud Writer/Director Shaandiin Tome](/images/resized/images/news/2016/140_dec08/24_100_100.jpg)
The 9-minute short features talent from Shiprock, Albuquerque, and Fort Defiance
LOS ANGELES — The Sundance Institute released its Indie Episodic, Shorts and Special Events selections for the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on Dec. 4.
Among those chosen is Mud (Hashtł’ishnii) a film about Ruby, a young Navajo mother, who faces the inescapable remnants of alcohol, family and culture on the last day of her life.
Mud writer and director Shaandiin Tome wrote the script earlier this year, having known the impacts of alcoholism on her own family growing up.
“This film serves as a reality that a lot of Native people face, but it is also a conversation starter to how we as a...