Bring Them Home
Bring Them Home tells the story of a small group of Blackfoot people and their mission to establish the first wild buffalo herd on their ancestral territory since the species' near-extinction a century ago, an act that would restore the land, re-enliven traditional culture and bring much needed healing to their community.
Credits and Cast
Producers: Daniel Glick, Ivan Macdonald, & Sarah Clarke
Director: Ivan MacDonald, Ivy MacDonald, & Daniel Glick
Directors of Photography: Zane Clampett, Kier Atherton, & Daniel Glick
Writer: Ivan MacDonald & Ivy MacDonald
Editing: Daniel Glick
Sound: Andrew Pals, Ariel Cooper, Colter Olmstead, & Lucia Ortega Toledo
Narration: Lily Gladstone
Music: Roger Suen
Shooting Format: Digital
Director’s Biography
Ivan MacDonald, Co-Director / Producer
Ivan MacDonald is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and an enrolled member of the Blackfeet tribe. His most recent project Bring Them Home won the Big Sky Award at the 2024 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Bring Them Home is Executive Produced and narrated by Oscar nominated actress Lily Gladstone. He was an inaugural fellow for the Netflix and Illuminative Producers fellowship and was an inaugural recipient of the Hulu and Firelight Kindling fund. Currently, he is the 2024 Mark Silverman honoree for Sundance’s Producing Lab. With his sister Ivy, he is also directing When They Were Here which is a feature-length documentary about the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls crisis told through the lens of their family and community. His work has been supported by Sundance, ITVS, and IDA.
Ivy MacDonald, Co-Director
Ivy MacDonald is a director, producer, writer and cinematographer based in Montana. She is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet tribe. Her most recent project Bring Them Home premiered at the 2024 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Bring Them Home is executive produced and narrated by Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone. In late 2023 she co-wrote and co-directed her first narrative short film titled Buffalo Spirit, which will premiere later this year. She also helped produce Murder in Bighorn which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and aired nationally on Showtime. Ivy also won an Emmy for her producing work on the 2020 ESPN shot Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible. She is currently directing for her second feature length documentary titled When They Were Here, a documentary about the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls crisis within her community. When They Were Here has received support from Sundance, IDA and ITVS.
Daniel Glick, Co-Director / Writer
Daniel Glick is a director, writer, producer, cinematographer and editor. For his short film, Iniskim (2019), he was nominated for three Emmys (directing, producing and photography) and won one for photography. His first feature documentary film, A Place to Stand, the true story of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, broadcast nationally on PBS in 2018. He has directed and produced half a dozen fiction shorts and several dozen short and branded documentaries. Three of his most recent personal projects were Our Last Refuge, Iniskim, and Bring Them Home - all short films set on the Blackfeet Reservation that he worked on with Blackfeet tribal members.