Written by Julie Lilly-Belote, Michael Schultz & Duane Humeyestewa. 110pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Julie Lilly Belote is a screenwriter, producer, and documentary filmmaker whose work explores urgent climate, environmental, and Indigenous themes through deeply human storytelling. Her screenwriting career began in the 1990s under the representation of agent Don Kopaloff of the William Morris Agency, and for more than a decade she has collaborated closely with acclaimed director Michael Schultz. Under the mentorship of the late Rance Howard, their project Beneath the Sands of Time remains in active development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Julie\u2019s narrative work includes the climate disaster thriller Cloud Zero and the eco-political thriller The Kessler Report, both characterized by lean dialogue, cinematic pacing, and emotionally grounded characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In documentary, she is currently completing From Himalayan Caves to City Streets with Tibetan Master Ven. Wangchen Rinpoche, and The Land Will Be His Altar, featuring rare footage of
Lakota Medicine Man Godfrey Chipps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Julie brings rigorous research, disciplined craft, and moral clarity to stories designed to engage contemporary global audiences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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When a catastrophic super-monsoon threatens the Southwest, NASA climate scientist Valerie Thomas walks out of her job and races home to warn her Indigenous community in northern New Mexico. After the storm passes, a far deadlier threat emerges – an unprecedented heat dome capable of creating temperatures the human body cannot survive. With infrastructure failing and time running out, the community undertakes a desperate journey across the desert toward ancestral caves once used by their people for refuge. As devastating loss reshapes their world, they discover that survival in a changing climate may depend not on choosing between modern science and traditional knowledge – but on trusting both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"class_list":["post-2131","episode","type-episode","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t