Director: Olivia Peace

Biography: Olivia Peace is a film director and interdisciplinary artist from Detroit, Michigan living in Los Angeles. They believe that style helps to facilitate agency in people and so they set out to create work that’s replete with style. After garnering critical and institutional praise for their 2017 short film “Pangaea,” Olivia landed a fellowship with the Sundance Institute in the year-long Ignite Fellowship Program. They spent 2019 working on their feature film debut, Tahara while still a full time MFA student at USC. Tahara premiered in January at the 2020 Slamdance Film Festival to rave reviews and is being distributed by Film Movement. Source: http://www.olivia-peace.com/#about