The first episode, 1961 The Duck-In, had its theatrical premiere at the 2006 Native American Film + Video Festival. In 2009, for script development of future projects, she was awarded a Sundance Institute Ford Foundation Film Fellowship. Edwardson has taught video production in Iñupiat villages through the NSBSD’s program Youth Speak. She is the videographer and editor of Amiginikun: On Sewing Boat Skins, which won the Best Traditional Culture Film at the Native Voice Film Festival in 2005. Edwardson received a BA from Colorado College in Colorado Springs and lives in Barrow, Alaska.