Billy Luther.

Host / Creator

Bygone: Be Kind Rewind

BILLYLU INC

Vertical podcast series exploring Gen X pop culture, memory, and human connection before the internet. Launching June 2026.

Writer

Vitalogy

Feature Film · In development

Shane Funk, fifty, Native, secretly carrying three generations of the beloved advice column Dear Shaman Shirley, loses everything in one week and is forced to navigate two opposing versions of himself.

Writer / Director

The Scalpel and the Silver Bear

Television Series · Treatment

Based on the memoir by Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord, the first Navajo woman surgeon.

Writer / Director

Frybread Face and Me

Netflix · ARRAY

A Navajo boy from San Diego experiences a cultural awakening when he spends summer vacation with his cousin and relatives on the reservation.

• World Premiere, SXSW
• International Premiere, Toronto International Film Festival
• Best Narrative Feature (US), Urbanworld Film Festival
• Jury Prize Best Feature, Seoul International Children's Film Festival

Writer / Director

Dark Winds

AMC / AMC+

Psychological thriller series based on Tony Hillerman's novels following two Navajo police officers in the 1970s Southwest. Staff writer and story editor across three seasons. Directed Season 2 Episode "Black Hole Sun" and Season 3 Episode "It Has Been Told." Series currently in its fifth season.

• Nominee, USC Scripter Award · Billy Luther & Max Hurvitz, co-writers "It Has Been Told"

Producer / Director

Alter-Native: Kitchen

PBS Online

Six-episode docuseries following three Indigenous chefs preparing foods from their Native cultures. Executive Produced by World of Wonder Productions.

Producer / Director

Alter-Native

PBS Online

Following Native American fashion designer Bethany Yellowtail developing her latest collection. Executive Produced by World of Wonder Productions.

Producer / Director

Red Lake

Field of Vision

Three survivors of the 2005 Red Lake Indian reservation high school shooting healing ten years later.

• Nominated Best Short Film, IDA Awards
• World Premiere, Los Angeles Film Festival

Co-Director

Rebel Music: Native America

MTV

Young Native American musicians using art to inspire and transform their communities.

• Screened at the White House for Indigenous Youth Day

Producer / Director

GRAB

Sundance · National Geographic

Members of New Mexico's Laguna Pueblo tribe preparing for Grab Day, a traditional celebration.

• World Premiere, Sundance Film Festival 2011

Producer / Director

Miss Navajo

PBS Independent Lens

The role of women and tradition in Diné culture explored through a young woman's quest for the Miss Navajo Nation crown. Inspired by Luther's own mother who won the pageant in 1966.

• World Premiere, Sundance Film Festival 2007
• Michael Moore's Founders Prize, Traverse City Film Festival