Ernest M. Whiteman III is a Northern Arapaho filmmaker, artist, writer, media educator, and former child superhero. He graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a Bachelor of Fi...view moreErnest M. Whiteman III is a Northern Arapaho filmmaker, artist, writer, media educator, and former child superhero. He graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film/Video Directing in 2004.Ernest is still in production on a full-length, full-text feature film contemporary adaptation of HAMLET that will feature a full cast of Native American actors. He works on a couple of online series on YouTube, has completed a western genre screenplay, "Nameless: A Western", and is working on an urban Indigenous zombie script.As a writer Ernest has completed a novel-length unpublished manuscript, "Once Upon a Time on the Rez" in 2003, and has self-published a collection of short stories entitled "The Autobiography of Blue Woman". He continues to add to the world of Blue Woman. He has completed and published to Smashwords his second novel manuscript "A Rez Tale".As an artist, he is working on a ledger art project, “NAMELESS: The Authentic and Magical Ledger Art of EW3” which has had a preview showing at the Citlalin Gallery in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago and is currently featured on the book arts website Affinties. He continues to randomly draw stuff.Ernest serves as the Director of First Nations Film and Video Festival, Inc. a 501c3, non-profit film festival dedicated to supporting Native American directors of all skill levels and working to find them a venue to express their views and screen their works, and works hard at securing venues and film and promotions for two annual film festivals.Ernest works as a Teaching Artist for several organizations, such as Chicago Arts Partners in Education and the Chicago International Children's Film Festival. Ernest teaches an upper-level course “Native Americans in Media” at the University of Wisconsin Parkside where he develops curricula based on Native American first-voice and self-representation in media, media literacy, his concepts of the Authorship of Expertise and how it pertains to authority, expertise and representations of Native American culture and media.Ernest has Associates degrees in both Native American Studies and Radio/TV Broadcasting from Central Wyoming College in Riverton, WY. He was selected as part of the Illinois Humanities Roads Scholars Speakers Bureau for 2021-22. He currently lives in Skokie, IL. Not bad for a nameless Arapaho from Wyoming."As an artist your greatest enemy, is your own history." Brian Eno 2011view less