Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Muscogee) is an award-winning filmmaker from Tulsa, Oklahoma and writer and director of four feature-length films: Barking Water (2009), This May Be the Last Time (2014), Mekko (2015), and Love and Fury (2020). His films have been shown at numerous film festivals, including Sundance (Park City, UT), Toronto International Film Festival, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Seattle Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, and deadCenter Film Festival (Oklahoma). Harjo is a founding member of the Native sketch comedy troupe The 1491s.