We Ride For Her is a short documentary film (18 min) about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIW/R/P) crisis in the United States. The story of this crisis is told through the work of the Medicine Wheel Ride, a grassroots Indigenous women’s motorcycle organization working to end this crisis, and Heather Taken-Alive’s search for her sister Susan Chief-Eagle who went missing on May 3, 2021.

In working to make the film, the team was committed to trauma-informed filmmaking that employed an informed-consent process, prioritizing the care of film subjects. Put simply, this approach works conscientiously, striving to align the needs of the film with the needs of the people and local communities, and optimally leaving all who we encounter better off. This is particularly important when working within spaces and communities who have endured repeated harm. Facets of this process include being community-responsive and participant-led in all aspects of the pre/production/post and distribution phases of working together.