About

Faith Strongheart is an award-winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico, Faith received her MFA in directing from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television and has written, produced and directed several short films which have screened at festivals around the world. In addition, she has written several feature-length screenplays and TV pilots. Faith continues to work as a production manager/supervisor on feature films and short-form nonfiction for Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Sony, Universal and other major and minor studios and production companies, allowing her invaluable access to the imaginative integrity of some of the most visionary filmmakers today.

Faith was a finalist for the Sloan Foundation Fellowship and is a two-time recipient of the Motion Picture Association of America award, a recipient of the Women in Film Verna Fields Memorial Fellowship, the Alliance for Women in Media Scholarship, the Bill Lee Memorial award, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association award for Directing, the Carroll Sax Award in Motion Picture and Television Production and the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation Scholarship. Her films and writing have won several awards and she has received accolades from numerous sources.

She received the Mary Pickford Award for Documentary Filmmaking for a feature documentary that she is making about how she was nearly fatally burned as an infant while growing up as a child of hippies in the mountains of Northern New Mexico. She is in the development stages of her first feature production, a story about a single mother on the desperate edge of survival and is most recently directed a Covid-19 horror short.

Faith was a fellow in the 2020 Respectability Entertainment Lab, a 2021 Black Magic Collective Fellow and was the 2022 recipient of the Loreen Arbus Disability Awareness Grant and is doing her best to raise two small humans in this crazy world.