Faith Strongheart

Faith Strongheart is writer/director with a unique visionary style. She has just completed her MFA in directing at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television and is in post on her thesis film, Getting From Here, an extraction from a feature based on her exceptional hippie childhood. She has also just completed another short film, Havana, about homosexual lovers in Cuba in 1978. Her last short film, Je Suis (i am), a powerful story about a woman scrambling to balance work and family, is currently on the festival circuit.

Faith has written, produced and directed several short films and has participated in numerous directing workshops. In addition, she has written three feature-length screenplays and a dramatic television series pilot. Prior to entering graduate school, Faith worked as a film professional on several features, allowing her invaluable access to the imaginative integrity of some of the most visionary filmmakers today.

Faith is a two-time recipient of the Motion Picture Association of America award and was a finalist for the Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 2016 as well as a recipient of the Women in Film Verna Fields Memorial Fellowship, the Bill Lee Memorial award, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association award for Directing, the Carroll Sax Award in Motion Picture and Television Production and the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation Scholarship. This year, she is the recipient for the Mary Pickford Award for Documentary Filmmaking for a feature documentary that she is making about her non-traditional hippie upbringing.