ABOUT ME

PAIGE WOOD (she/her) is an award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer who may or may not be the third Morgendorffer sister — only Black and with better glasses. Creating across narrative and documentary film, animation, and video games, Paige’s work on acclaimed projects such as the experimental documentary short THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT, the Afro-futurist animated pilot MINE, and the time-bending video game DOT’S HOME has been recognized by the likes of BlackStar Film Festival, Tribeca Festival, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). and Apple.

Born and based in Detroit, Paige previously served as the Supervising Producer for the Rise-Home Stories Project, which brought together artists and advocates to reimagine the stories told about land and home through five radically-imaginative multi-media projects. She currently acts as the Supervising Producer for the Detroit Narrative Agency's 24-25 Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship. In her personal work, Paige is developing an adult-comedy series for television, a solar-punk video game, and an animated short film as her directorial debut. She is a board member of Working Films (2021) and Media City Film Festival (2025).

Paige is a 2025 PAMCUT Sustainability Lab Fellow, 2024 Film Independent Episodic Lab Fellow, 2022 Gotham TV Lab Fellow, 2021-2022 USC Annenberg Lab Civic Media Fellow, 2020 Kresge Artist Fellow, and a 2019 Sundance Institute | Knight Foundation Fellow. Often exploring serious themes in unserious ways, Paige tells stories between the realm of the surreal and all-too-real; rooted in a Black, Midwestern perspective that builds on the absurdity of everyday life. Though she works across all genres and mediums, Paige’s first love is animation, which heavily colors her artistic attitude to everything she does.

Currently, Paige is open to new creative opportunities and building relationships with prospective funding partners — particularly within the realm of episodic, animated, and/or interactive storytelling. If you’d like to read some of Paige’s writing, her SWARM spec script was recently selected for the 2024 season of The Stunt List, and is available to read here. Other scripts are available upon request.

EXPERIENCE

I've been known to wear many hats when it comes to my work. Ironically, I don't like to wear actual hats at all.

SELECT ACCOLADES AND AWARDS

Dot’s Home

Unity for Humanity: 2021 Grant Awardee
Games 4 Change: 2022 Game of the Year, 2022 Best Narrative Game
Apple: 2022 Cultural Impact App Store Awardee

MINE

Tribeca Film Festival: 2021 Black Realities Grant Winner
American Black Film Festival: 2022 Best Webseries
DC Black Film Festival: 2022 Best Animated Film

The Giverny Document

BlackStar Film Festival: 2020 Best Experimental Film
Los Angeles Film Critics Association: 2019 Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize - Winner
Locarno Film Festival: 2019 Moving Ahead Award - Best Film Winner