Tonantzin Carmelo

Acting

Tonantzin Carmelo

Born 1977-03-10 · Orange County, California, United States

Tonantzín Carmelo is an American actress descending on her mother’s side from Tongva and Kumeyaay Native Americans of Southern California. She is known for her acting roles in film, TV and stage productions including in the Steven Spielberg miniseries, Into the West, for which she received a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Television Movie or Miniseries.

Acting credits

Mosquito poster
NR

A tale of sacrifice and showmanship told through rival doctors in the old west.

Mosquito

2022

Unearthed poster
4.2

In the desert area of Hat Creek, cows are found partially devoured and the farmers believe that a wolf is attacking the cattle. The alcoholic Sheriff Annie Flynn is called by the local farmer Rob Horn to witness the remains of an animal to request reimbursement from the government and for an accident with a tank truck that is blocking the road.

Unearthed

2007

A Soldier's Revenge poster
5.0

Haunted by wartime horrors, Civil War soldier-turned-bounty-hunter Frank Connor spends his time post-war polishing off two things: whiskey and fugitives. When two desperate children arrive on his doorstep and enlist his help to find their missing mother, Frank must face his past in order to take down the notorious Major Briggs, with whom he has a score all his own to settle.

A Soldier's Revenge

2021

Shadowheart poster
4.5

James Conners comes home to the town of Legend, New Mexico in 1865 to avenge his fathers death against the ruthless Will Tunney. Along the way he re-captures his long lost love Mary Cooper. With the chance to take Will Tunney he must choose revenge or redemption.

Shadowheart

2009

Entertainment poster
5.6

Set in the Mojave Desert, the film follows a broken-down comedian playing clubs across the Southwest, working his way to Los Angeles to meet his estranged daughter.

Entertainment

2015

Imprint poster
5.2

Shayla Stonefeather, a Native American attorney prosecuting a Lakota teen in a controversial murder trial, returns to the reservation to say goodbye to her dying father. After the teen is killed, she hears ghostly voices and sees strange visions that cause her to re-examine beliefs she thought she left behind.

Imprint

2007

Child of Grace poster
6.0

Katie Johnson, a 9-year-old girl, has spent her entire life traveling across America in an RV with her father. At one of their stops, she finds a picture of herself on a missing child poster and realizes her father may actually be a kidnapper.

Child of Grace

2015

The Windigo poster
4.8

An ancient Chippewa demon, the WINDIGO, is resurrected by a Native American teenager and his grandmother to protect their family after a run-in with back-woods meth dealers. They soon discover that the creature’s lust for killing cannot be controlled. As each killing bonds the teen and the Windigo ever closer, the family must find a way to break the curse before all of them become the blood-thirsty creature’s next victims.

The Windigo

2024

No artwork available
NR

Set in the 15th century comes an supercharged action packed romantic character driven story of the Hohokam tribe and what may have happened to them

The Legend of Hohokam

The Activist poster
4.8

A political thriller taking place during the Wounded Knee insurrection in 1973. Two activists are arrested and in the custody of the local sheriff's office. During their stay they are visited by a Nixon advisor, a lawyer, a senator and a movie star who is also an activist.

The Activist

2014

No artwork available
9.0

Shouting Secrets is a hopeful and heartwarming, universal story taking place in a present day Native American family. It's a story that is at once about the constancy and the fragility of love, as well as the importance of family.

Shouting Secrets

2011

The Sacrifice Zone poster
1.0

During the 1973 occupation at Wounded Knee, two activists, Marvin and Bud "One Bull", are arrested and thrown in jail. Filled with righteous indignation, Bud fights with his captors while Marvin, is mourning his wife, Anna Ward, who died in a car accident months earlier. Claire Chapman, a young lawyer assigned to defend Bud and Marvin, investigates. The three of them will discover their case is part of a massive conspiracy involving the federal government and big business. Meanwhile, in jail, an advisor from the Nixon Administration, a sitting Senator, and even a famous Hollywood actor visit Marvin and Bud. What secret was Anna Ward hiding before she died? What do the activists know?

The Sacrifice Zone

2022

187 Shadow Lane poster
6.0

A gangster seeking a way out and a lonely old man in search of redemption face their troubled pasts together in this explosive tale of self-discovery. Miguel (Danny Romo) invites gangster Abraham (Robert Zepeda) to his ranch in hopes that he can get the kid on the straight and narrow while training him as a fighter. But Abraham's gang tracks him down and Miguel's dark secrets are revealed, culminating in a life-altering confrontation for both.

187 Shadow Lane

2003