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Paige Wood

Location:
United States
Languages:
Spanish
Issues:
Racial Injustice, Privacy and Surveillance, Women and Girls
Expertise:
Consulting, Impact Strategist/Advisor
Cultural/racial identity:
Black/African-American
Self identification:
Cis-gender Woman

Bio

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. Born in Detroit and working worldwide, Paige has produced and/or co-written a number of short documentary and narrative films that have gone on to gain critical acclaim, such as "Femme Queen Chronicles" (2018, dir: Ahya Simone), "Riding with Aunt D. Dot" (2018, dir: Bree Gant), "The Giverny Document" (2019, dir: Ja'Tovia Gary), “W|ALLS: Defend, Divide, and The Divine” (2019, dir: Jeremiah Zagar) and "Showing Out/Showing Up" (2019: dir: Margot Bowman). Currently, Paige is serving as the Supervising Producer of the Rise-Home Stories Project, a multi-media, radical-change initiative supported by The Ford Foundation, JoLu Productions, and Working Films. Her next cinematic project, "Made A Universe" (dir. Tunde Olaniran) will premiere at the Cranbrook Art Museum in 2022. Additionally, Paige teaches film producing at Wayne State University as an adjunct instructor, and also is working with leading documentary filmmakers as an impact consultant. Paige is a 2021-22 Annenberg Civic Media Fellow, a 2020 Kresge Artist Fellow, an alumnae of Firelight Media's 2018-2019 Impact Producer Cohort, as well as a 2019 fellow of the Sundance Institute | Knight Foundation Program for both an original urban fantasy feature script (currently in development) and her work as co-writer of the award-winning ‘Femme Queen Chronicles’.