Sacred Grounds Documentary

Welcome to BunaCine Productions

BunaCine is a production company founded by artists Eyakem Gulilat and Evan Clayburg, focusing on community-engaged documentary photography and film making.

Coffee for Tulsa

Short from Eyakem Gulilat’s Coffee Ceremony Series

Mother’s Prayer

Photography Series

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Mother's Prayer Series

Black Towns Bike Tour

Short Promotional Film for the Black Towns of Oklahoma Bike Tour

Ethiopian-American

Photography Series

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Ethiopian-America Series

Eyakem Gulilat

Director, Photographer

Eyakem Gulilat

Originally from Ethiopia, Eyakem Gulilat’s work is rooted in the search for belonging. Through photography, he navigates the complexities of cross-cultural interactions, exploring how time, memory, and place shape our experiences. His images provoke questions about the relationship between subject and photographer, the borders that define us, and how perspectives shift when viewed through the camera’s lens.

Gulilat holds a BA from Abilene Christian University and an MFA from the University of Oklahoma. He has been an artist-in-residence at renowned institutions such as the Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York; Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon; and Light Work in Syracuse, New York. His work has been honored with awards including a National Endowment for the Arts grant in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, the National Photography Fellowship at the Midwest Center for Photography, the En Foco Photography Fellowship, and the Project Row Houses and University of Houston Fellowship.

His work has been widely exhibited across the U.S. and Canada and is held in notable public and private collections. Gulilat is currently a Tulsa Artist Fellow.

Evan Clayburg

Director, Cinematographer

Evan Clayburg is a multimedia and performance artist and documentary filmmaker with a belief in art as a powerful tool for building community and vehicle for social change. His documentary works explores art, music, social justice and environmental movements with a particular interest in ways these intersect. His performance art focuses on the interdependence between humans and technology. His professional graphic design / multimedia work centers around artists and arts organizations, art-science fusion programs, and nonprofits/NGOs working in areas of human rights, social justice, environmental justice, community building and education.

Evan was awarded for his documentary work with a National Endowment for the Arts grant through the Mid America Arts Alliance. The feature length-documentary created with this grant, Up From the Earth, Out Through the People, produced in collaboration with Chief Egunwale Fagbenro Amusan, received an award at the Urban Media Makers Film Festival in Atlanta in 2024. Evan worked collaboratively with the group Melodious Thunk from 2011–2023, part of a small group that documented parade cultures of the African Diaspora in places like New Orleans, Brazil, Cuba, Philadelphia, and NYC.

In 2012 Evan co-founded Third Space Art Collective, a grass roots artist organization in Davis, CA and acted as artistic director through 2017. In 2016 he was an artist-in-residence at similarly-spirited artist collective Dope Chapel. As a part of his project for the residency he walked from Southern California to Dope Chapel’s space in Norman, Oklahoma – a 1,200+ journey that spanned 2 months. He has been in every US state and has spent time living and working as an artist internationally in Salvador, Brazil, Todos Santos / Mexico City / Cuernavaca, Mexico and Kawagoe, Japan. He currently lives in Tulsa, OK.