About

Faith Strongheart is an award-winning filmmaker from Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is one of six children raised by their single “ex-hippie” mother. Her early childhood was spent roaming the rivers and hills outside their one-room, dirt-floor cottage in Truchas, New Mexico. As an infant Faith was nearly fatally burned in a campfire outside their home. She uses her exceptional childhood experiences as fuel for her original storytelling.

Faith received her MFA in directing from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television and has written, produced and directed several award winning short films which have screened at festivals around the world. In addition, she has written several feature-length screenplays and a dramatic television series pilot and series bible. Faith continues to work as a production manager/supervisor on feature films and branded content 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. She received the Mary Pickford Award for Documentary Filmmaking for a feature documentary that she is making about her extraordinary upbringing. She is in the development stages of her first feature production based on the young adult novel, Small As An Elephant.

She 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. She is doing her best to raise two small humans in this crazy world.