Ernest M. Whiteman III is a Northern Arapaho filmmaker, artist, writer, and media educator. He is still working on a film adaptation of “Hamlet” which will include a full cast of Native American actors. Ernest is the Director of First Nations Film and Video Festival, Inc. a non-profit film festival supporting Native American directors of all skill levels and finding venues to help them express their views and screen their films. Ernest teaches an upper-level communications course, Native Americans in Media at the University of Wisconsin Parkside, and is a Teaching Artist with Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education. Ernest continues to makes films, to write, and make art. Ernest has also self-published a short stories collection "The Autobiography of Blue Woman”, as well as his first novel "A Rez Tale". He is at work on many film and video projects, "Ten in Ten" a documentary series, and "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the Zombie War" an Urban Native Horror. He is from the Wind River Reservation and currently lives in Skokie. Not bad for a nameless Arapaho from Wyoming.