ABOUT ME

PAIGE WOOD (b. 1993) is an award-winning independent filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and creative consultant who may or may not be the third Morgendorffer sister — only Black and with better glasses. Based in Detroit and working worldwide, Paige has produced a number of short documentary and narrative films that have gone on to gain critical acclaim. Most recently, Paige served as the Supervising Producer for an animated pilot (MINE), a video game (DOT’S HOME), a children’s book (ALEJANDRIA FIGHTS BACK!), and a podcast (BUT NEXT TIME) under the Rise-Home Stories Project. In addition to her independent work, Paige is currently developing several projects for television, two feature films, and her directorial debut.

As a writer and creative, Paige tells stories at the intersection of surreal, all-too-real, and satirical that build on the absurdity of present realities. Paige’s first love is animation, which heavily colors her artistic attitude to everything she does, whether she’s writing a grounded, live-action rom-com or a wild, animated sci-fi opera. Paige also speaks Japanese and Spanish on a formerly-fluent basis.

Paige is a 2024 Fellow for Film Independent’s Episodic Lab, 2024 Finalist for the Fox Entertainment Writers Incubator, 2023 winner of Constellations' Artist Disruptor Award, 2022 Gotham TV Lab Fellow, 2021-2022 Annenberg Lab Civic Media Fellow, a 2020 Kresge Artist Fellow, an alumni of Firelight Media's 2018-2019 Impact Producer Cohort, as well as a 2019 fellow of the Sundance Institute | Knight Foundation Program. Her short scripts “Heavy Flow” and “MORTAL (HOT COMB)AT” have also been a finalist or semi-finalist in a number of competitions — “MORTAL (HOT COMB)AT” in particular is looking for funding and production partners (script available upon request).

Currently, Paige is open to new opportunities — 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.

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