Clan
By Dorothy Sullivan
Written by Kathryn Machi
A historical, family and feminist miniseries inspired by my mother's mid-life discovery of her Cherokee heritage.
Themes: Women's liberation, Native power, generational trauma, and love that transcends time.
Logline: In the cultural upheaval of 1969 San Francisco, a Catholic housewife and mother accidentally discovers her Cherokee heritage, upending her family, faith, and sanity.
SERIES OVERVIEW
On the quiet western edge of San Francisco where the foghorn plays an almost nightly lullaby, June Wilder is a secretly frustrated, outwardly model Catholic housewife tending to her ex-Navy commander husband and two rambunctious teenage daughters with the dedication of a ruby-lipped saint.
But when June has a ghostly visitation from a 19th-century American Indian woman, she’s spurred to visit Martin, her long-estranged father. When Martin accidentally reveals that his mother was Cherokee, June begins to understand the spirit woman’s message —and the source of her own lifelong identity crisis.
June launches her passionate journey of discovery and community— and a new romantic interest—with San Francisco’s nascent Red Power movement, and with her daughters, abandoning her middle-class comforts for a bunk on Alcatraz, a stay in the county mental hospital, and an adventurous journey home, to the Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma.
Awards for CLAN aka JUNE ROSE:
The Black List Indigenous List 2022
IllumiNative Pop Culture Finalist Producers Track 2022
Finalist Coverfly Pitch Week Spring 2022
Quarterfinalist, The Script Lab TV Pilot 2021
Quarterfinalist, Final Draft Big Break 2020
ABOUT KATHRYN MACHI
Kathryn Machi, MFA, writes intercultural, historical, female-centric, and multi-generational screenplays and stories. FIREBIRD a dance and family drama set in the Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma and the South of France, and CLAN (aka JUNE ROSE), a historical miniseries set in 1969 San Francisco and early 20th-century Indian Country, are each on the Indigenous List, representing "the best and most promising Native creatives in the film and television industry."
A holistic practitioner, instructor, and erstwhile modern dancer, Kathryn is an active member of Women in Film SF and the Independent Writers Caucus. A Bay Area native, dual U.S.-French citizen, and proud, enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, she lives with her husband and son on the foggy western edge of San Francisco.
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