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Sandra Osawa, Producer, signature on 3"x5" card with 5c Louisa May Alcott stamp to left, fresh & VF.

This item is from the collection originally formed over a 50 year period by Dr. Sam Loebenstein of Kansas City, MO and continued by his grandson, Michael J. Gerstley, of San Jose, CA.

Sandra Sunrising Osawa (Makah) has been a producer and independent videomaker since 1970, beginning her work for television with The Native American Series, a ground-breaking 10-part series for KNBC-TV. She received a United Nations Fellowship to study at NYU's Center for Media, History and Culture in 1996, the National Video Resources' Media Arts Fellowship in 2002 and the Taos Mountain Award for lifetime achievement at the 1996 Taos Talking Pictures Festival. Osawa works with her husband, Yasu, and they have produced two documentaries about treaty rights: Usual and Accustomed Places, funded, in part, by the Ford Foundation, and Lighting the Seventh Fire, which inaugurated Native American programming on P.O.V., a showcase for non-fiction on public television. Osawa's interest in contemporary Indian artists led her to explore their work in On and Off the Res' w/ Charlie Hill and Pepper's Pow Wow—and her current work-in-progress is Maria Tallchief: America's First Prima Ballerina. Osawa has taught script writing at Evergreen State College and video production at Seattle Community College. She is a member of the Writer's Guild of America and her poems are published in Dancing on the Rim of the World, an anthology of Northwest Coast Native poets. Before becoming a filmmaker, Osawa created and directed the first Indian Head Start early childhood education program in Washington State, while serving as the War on Poverty's Community Action Director for the Makah Nation. Osawa heads Upstream Productions and has also produced some 40 programs for various clients. She received a BA from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon and did graduate work at UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television and the Universities of Washington and Oregon.