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Later, she became the founder, president, and principal owner of [[Red-Horse Native Productions]], Inc., a company specializing in motion picture and television production and Native American herbal skincare and hair care products. In October and November 1997, "Naturally Native" was filmed by Red-Horse Native Productions, Inc. as well as the first film made about Native American women written, directed, produced and starring Native American women. Red-Horse was writer, producer, co-director and lead actress for the film. Funded entirely by the [[Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation]] of Connecticut (which parallels the movie’s main plot to gain funding for a cosmetics line based on Native American hair and skin remedies) gave the movie further credibility and premiered at the 1998 [[Sundance Film Festival]]. "Naturally Native" received multiple festival awards and in spring 2007 Red-Horse Native Productions, Inc. was given permission to nationally distribute the film, specifically in [[Wal-Mart]] (another incident that parallels with the film's mentioning of Wal-Mart as a place to sell the aforementioned remedies). It also received the 2001 First Book Award for Prose from the [[Native Writers' Circle of the Americas]]. |
Later, she became the founder, president, and principal owner of [[Red-Horse Native Productions]], Inc., a company specializing in motion picture and television production and Native American herbal skincare and hair care products. In October and November 1997, "Naturally Native" was filmed by Red-Horse Native Productions, Inc. as well as the first film made about Native American women written, directed, produced and starring Native American women. Red-Horse was writer, producer, co-director and lead actress for the film. Funded entirely by the [[Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation]] of Connecticut (which parallels the movie’s main plot to gain funding for a cosmetics line based on Native American hair and skin remedies) gave the movie further credibility and premiered at the 1998 [[Sundance Film Festival]]. "Naturally Native" received multiple festival awards and in spring 2007 Red-Horse Native Productions, Inc. was given permission to nationally distribute the film, specifically in [[Wal-Mart]] (another incident that parallels with the film's mentioning of Wal-Mart as a place to sell the aforementioned remedies). It also received the 2001 First Book Award for Prose from the [[Native Writers' Circle of the Americas]]. |
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She was executive producer and co-director of the [[National Endowment for the Arts]] and [[NASA]]-sponsored "[[Windows on Mars]]" released in 1999, and was executive producer, director, and writer of "[[True Whispers]]", an award winning [[PBS]]/[[ITVS]] [[documentary]] about the [[Navajo Code Talkers]], produced with [[Gale Anne Hurd]] that aired between 2003 and 2004. |
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==Native Nations Securities and GenesisIntermedia insolvency== |
==Native Nations Securities and GenesisIntermedia insolvency== |
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Valerie Red-Horse (born 1959 in California) is an American Indian actress and author of claimed Cherokee/Sioux heritage. She is also a former office manager for junk bond king Michael Milken and the former CEO of an insolvent Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) broker/dealer Native Nations Securities, which was the brokerage behind the largest payout in Securities Investor Protection Corporation history.[1]
Education and career
Early years
In 1981, Red-Horse graduated cum laude from UCLA's Theater Arts Department and further studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. Before she finished college, she started work at Drexel Burnham Lambert as an investment banker and supervisor from 1978 to 1985, where she met Milkin.
Screenwriting
In 1995, her feature screenplay "Lozen", the true story of an Apache woman warrior, was selected and work-shopped at the Sundance Writers Lab. Since then, "Lozen" has won three additional screenplay competitions. That same year, she created the Emmy award-winning CBS special "My Indian Summer" and became the live model for Mattel's Pocahontas doll to coincide with the release of Disney's "Pocahontas", the titular character being voiced by future co-star of "Naturally Native" Irene Bedard. In 1996, she served as screenwriter, producer, and lead actress of "Looks into the Night", which won Best Live Action Short at the American Indian Film Festival.
Red-Horse Native Productions
Later, she became the founder, president, and principal owner of Red-Horse Native Productions, Inc., a company specializing in motion picture and television production and Native American herbal skincare and hair care products. In October and November 1997, "Naturally Native" was filmed by Red-Horse Native Productions, Inc. as well as the first film made about Native American women written, directed, produced and starring Native American women. Red-Horse was writer, producer, co-director and lead actress for the film. Funded entirely by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut (which parallels the movie’s main plot to gain funding for a cosmetics line based on Native American hair and skin remedies) gave the movie further credibility and premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. "Naturally Native" received multiple festival awards and in spring 2007 Red-Horse Native Productions, Inc. was given permission to nationally distribute the film, specifically in Wal-Mart (another incident that parallels with the film's mentioning of Wal-Mart as a place to sell the aforementioned remedies). It also received the 2001 First Book Award for Prose from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.
She was executive producer and co-director of the National Endowment for the Arts and NASA-sponsored "Windows on Mars" released in 1999, and was executive producer, director, and writer of "True Whispers", an award winning PBS/ITVS documentary about the Navajo Code Talkers, produced with Gale Anne Hurd that aired between 2003 and 2004.
Native Nations Securities and GenesisIntermedia insolvency
Red-Horse started a FINRA licensed securities firm, Native Nations Securities, that was behind the largest payout in SIPC history. Adnan Khashoggi, along with Ramy El-Batrawi, was the principal financier behind GenesisIntermedia, Inc. (formerly NASDAQ: GENI), a publicly traded Internet company based in Southern California. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Khashoggi's U.S.-based checking accounts were frozen and Khashoggi was unable to make a margin call with Native Nations Securities, whose CEO and largest shareholder, at the time, was Valerie Red-Horse, former office manager of junk bond king Michael Milken. In turn, Native Nations and Red Horse were unable to meet their obligations on the margin loan to MJK Clearing, Inc.[2][3] Trading in the stock of GenesisIntermedia was halted in September 2001. Khashoggi's unwillingness to pay his margin loan to Native Nations Securities, and Native Nations (and Red Horse's) inability to pay its debts to MJK Clearing, began a series of bankruptcies that ended in the largest payout in Securities Investor Protection Corporation history.[4][5] Native Nations Securities and MJK Clearing both eventually filed for bankruptcy.[6]
Notes
- ^ Desai v. Deutsche Bank, July 29, 2009
- ^ In the Matter of Dean C. Reder, Securities and Exchange Commission, March 26, 2007.
- ^ Mudry, Brent. "SEC files first suit in GenesisIntermedia debacle", Canada StockWatch, June 4, 2003.
- ^ Form 12B-25, Notification of Late Filing, Securities and Exchange Commission, November 14, 2001.
- ^ SIPC. "SIPC: BANKRUPTCY COURT CLEARS SALE OF TROUBLED MINNESOTA BROKERAGE FIRM, 175,000-Customer Firm Failure is Largest Ever Handled by SIPC", SIPC, October 2, 2001.
- ^ SIPC vs. MJK Clearing, Inc., United States Bankruptcy Court, District of Minnesota', September 30, 2006.'