Nate and the Colonel is a 2003 western film that was written, directed and edited by filmmaker Paul Winters.The film also stars Winters as Colonel Ben Loftin and Ricco Ross as Nate. "Nate and the Colonel" is the first feature film to use the Native American Ojibwe language (for the first half of the film, the Native actors only speak in the Ojibwa language with English sub-titles). The film also stars Mark S. Brien and Carlos Milano.