Award-winning filmmaker Loren Waters is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and the Kiowa Tribe. Loren’s work centers environmental knowledge, culture revitalization and Indigenous futurity through storytelling. She’s worked on projects such as Seasons 1-3 of Reservation Dogs, Fancy Dance (2023) and the Martin Scorsese directed feature film, Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
She recently received the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation LIFT Award and the Running Strong Foundation Dreamstarter Environmental Justice Award. She has participated in fellowships such as Nia Tero 4th World Media Lab, 2021 Warner Media Bootcamp and the Intercultural Leadership Institute Year 4.
Loren’s second short documentary “ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ (Meet Me at the Creek)” will have its world premiere at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2024.