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ABOUT ME

Art by Olivia Fields

Art by Olivia Fields

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 also acted as the Supervising Producer for the Detroit Narrative Agency's Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship throughout 2024 and 2025. In her personal work, Paige is developing two 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 — particularly within the realm of episodic, animated, and/or interactive storytelling, with an emphasis on worldbuilding. If you’d like to read some of Paige’s writing, her SWARM spec script was selected for the 2024 season of The Stunt List, and is available to read here.

Other scripts and writing samples 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

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Synopsis: Filmed on location in Harlem, USA and in Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, France, The Giverny Document is a multi-textured cinematic poem that meditates on the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Through audacious formal experimentation, filmmaker and artist Ja’Tovia Gary unleashes an arsenal of techniques and materials including direct animation on archival 16mm film, cinema verite, and montage editing to explore the creative virtuosity of Black femme performance while interrogating the histories of those bodies and lives as spaces of forced labor and commodified production. World Premiere at the 2019 Locarno Film Festival, Winner of the Moving Ahead Award North American Premiere at Camden International Film Festival, Honorable Mention Cinematic Vision Award Direction + Edit + Animation by Ja'Tovia M. Gary Cinematographer: Mia Cioffi Henry Sound: Emily Strong Producers: Paige Wood + Artesia Balthrop Music: Dyani Douze + Bandela Bandela
Complex, challenging, and immersive, our W|ALLS: Defend, Divide, and the Divine exhibit is a historical look at civilization's relationship with barriers, both real and imagined. For centuries, across diverse civilizations, walls have been central to human history.
'Showing Up Showing Out' is the new collaboration between Carhartt WIP, Dazed and NTS, created by Margot Bowman & Imani Mixon.

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