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name: "Jesse Short Bull"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jesse-short-bull"
fi1m_id: "jesse-short-bull"
tmdb_id: 3515663
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-10T05:06:31.525777+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Jesse Short Bull

## Identity

Jesse Short Bull

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jesse-short-bull
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jesse-short-bull
- **TMDB ID:** 3515663
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3515663

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3515663

## Biography

Jesse Short Bull is a Lakota writer and director. A member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, he is from the Badlands of South Dakota and a graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts.

He co-directed and co-wrote the 2025 documentary *Free Leonard Peltier* with David France. His earlier feature *Lakota Nation vs. United States* (2022), co-directed with Laura Tomaselli, premiered at Tribeca and received Emmy Awards for Best Documentary and Best Director. Short Bull has received a Sundance Documentary Fund fellowship and was the first Indigenous filmmaker named to the DOC NYC Shortlist programme.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, freeleonardfilm.com, imdb.com, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Free Leonard Peltier* (2025), Fi1m 57, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/free-leonard-peltier.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Free Leonard Peltier* (2025), Director, Writer — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/free-leonard-peltier.md)
- *Lakota Nation vs. United States* (2022), Director

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