After a successful weekend for the festival, MSFF announced the winners of the first ever PNW Indigenous Filmmaker Grant this weekend. The Directing team of Olivia Camfield & Woodrow Hunt won the $10,000 grant offered in collaboration with Oregon Film’s Creative Opportunity Program. The grant will help the talented pair to create a piece that will premiere at next year’s MSFF.
Olivia Camfield is a multimedia movement artist of the Muscogee Nation. Their work finds connection to dance as body horror, tatooing as protection spells, and farming as Queer Indigenous Futurism. Their work includes themes of the Alien as kin, time traveling relatives and Mvskoke lifeways in experimental forms.
Woodrow Hunt is a Klamath, Modoc and Cherokee artist. His film practice is focused on documentary and experimental forms. His experimental work explores the functions and relationship between digital video and memory.
