ABOUT ME

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 — only Black and with better glasses. Based in Detroit and working worldwide, Paige has produced 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).

Most recently, Paige served as the Supervising Producer for an animated pilot (MINE), a video game (DOT’S HOME), a children’s book (ALEJANDRIA FIGHTS BACK!), and a podcast (BUT NEXT TIME) under the Rise-Home Stories Project, which aimed to shift dominant narratives through radical change media-making and is supported by The Ford Foundation, JoLu Productions, and Working Films. In addition to her independent work, Paige teaches film producing at Wayne State University as an adjunct instructor, and also is working with leading documentary filmmakers as an impact consultant. Currently, Paige serves as the Supervising Producer for the Detroit Narrative Agency’s 2024-2025 Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship. In addition to her collaborative work, Paige is currently developing several projects for television, two features, and her directorial short film debut.

As a writer and creative, Paige loves to tell stories that subvert the idea of where fantasy, horror, and humor can exist by injecting a bit of absurdity into our current reality. Paige’s first love is animation, which heavily colors her artistic attitude to everything she does, whether writing a grounded, live-action rom-com or a wild, animated sci-fi opera. Furthermore, Paige’s approach to moving image and media-making is an ever-evolving framework shaped by working and learning in community with fellow BIPOC creatives, peoples of lived experience, and grassroots organizations to create transformational and engaging media.

Paige is a 2024 Fellow for Film Independent’s Episodic Lab, 2024 Finalist for the Fox Entertainment Writers Incubator, 2023 winner of Constellations' Artist Disruptor Award, 2022 Gotham TV Lab Fellow, 2021-2022 Annenberg Lab Civic Media Fellow, a 2020 Kresge Artist Fellow, an alumni 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 early development) and her work with ‘Femme Queen Chronicles’. Her short scripts “Heavy Flow” and “MORTAL (HOT COMB)AT” have also been a finalist or semi-finalist in a number of competitions, and are looking for funding and production partners (scripts available upon request).

Currently, Paige is open to new opportunities — particularly within the realm of narrative, animated, and/or interactive storytelling. If you’d like to read some of Paige’s writing, her SWARM spec script was recently selected for the 2024 season of The Stunt List, and is available to read here.

EXPERIENCE

I've been known to wear many hats when it comes to my work. Ironically, I don't like to wear actual hats at all.

SELECT ACCOLADES AND AWARDS

Dot’s Home

Unity for Humanity: 2021 Grant Awardee
Games 4 Change: 2022 Game of the Year, 2022 Best Narrative Game
Apple: 2022 Cultural Impact App Store Awardee

MINE

Tribeca Film Festival: 2021 Black Realities Grant Winner
American Black Film Festival: 2022 Best Webseries
DC Black Film Festival: 2022 Best Animated Film

The Giverny Document

BlackStar Film Festival: 2020 Best Experimental Film
Los Angeles Film Critics Association: 2019 Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize - Winner
Locarno Film Festival: 2019 Moving Ahead Award - Best Film Winner