The Diné Elders Project

Time is running out on this timeless story.

Facing his 100th Birthday while mourning the loss of his 97-year old wife after 82 years of marriage, Navajo medicine man Dudley Yazzie turns to two documentary filmmakers to insure his ancient oral stories and teachings survive for future generations. Brenda Beck, the executive producer of this film documentary, has spent thirty years with Dudley and his people having been married to a Navajo medicine man and respected in her own right by Navajo elders. Thomas Wohlmut, an internationally-recognized filmmaker who came up through Hollywood and made Silicon Valley’s life-changing ideas come alive through film, has now shifted his attention to insuring that important stories and knowledge from this age of mankind make it into the next. Living Voices™: The Diné Elders Project, their first collaboration through Purple Root Productions, LLC, is a documentary film project preserving the living voices of Diné (Navajo) elders – a “Noah’s Ark” for precious indigenous knowledge that is in danger of being lost.