About Actors & Ancestors

Actors & Ancestors is a film and TV podcast that celebrates Indigenous actors, talks back to Hollywood stereotypes and looks to the future of Indigenous Peoples on screen.

Actors & Ancestors is a 2024 Signal Silver Award Winner in Television & Film podcasts and a 2024 W3 Silver Award Winner for Best Indie podcast.

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The Show

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On the ‘Gram

View fullsize It’s award season and we won a Silver Signal Award in the Television & Film podcast category! The @signalawards are all about celebrating podcasts changing culture and that’s exactly what Actors and Ancestors is about. It’s real
View fullsize 🏆 I guess this is now an “award-winning podcast”! Actors and Ancestors won a Silver Award for Best Indie Podcast in the W3 awards today. The show is also a finalist in the Signal Awards for best of TV & Film podcasts!! Feels great to
View fullsize Today, September 30th, is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (Orange Shirt Day). It’s also International Podcast Day. Here is a list of podcasts you can listen to to learn about the cruel history of residential schools in Canada, stories
View fullsize NEW EPISODE 🚨: The man. The legend. Wes Studi himself! Wes Studi joins Joel for an exchange about his sweeping career from “The Last of the Mohicans” to “Reservation Dogs” and everything in between. Wes is a Tsalagi (Cherokee

SHOW CREDITS

Joel D. Montgrand: Creator, Host, Producer
Daniella Barreto: Audio Editor, Production Support
Moral support from Awas the Pod-cat

All photographs of Joel by Daniella Barreto