Loretta Todd^CA

Loretta Sarah Todd is a filmmaker, writer, producer, curator, and creative director whose practice bridges Indigenous storytelling and emerging media with rare depth and vision. A Sundance Writer's Lab alumna, she has created more than 75 award-winning projects spanning feature films, documentaries, television, digital media, XR, apps, and games, blending lyrical, expressionistic imagery with powerful narrative forms.

She is the Founder and Creative Director of the IM4 XR Media Lab, a platform she has built into a leading force for Indigenous innovation in immersive and interactive media.

Her acclaimed feature film Monkey Beach premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), opened the Vancouver International Film Festival, and topped the Canadian box office for four consecutive weeks. Her body of work also includes the award-winning series Coyote Science, a genre-defying exploration of Indigenous knowledge systems in conversation with science.

Todd is a co-curator of Signals, a platform fostering dialogue between art, technology and Indigenous futurisms. Most recently, she served as Creative Director for the interactive mural Thunderbird Dreams, and collaborated with the IM4 Lab team and a collective of creative technology artists to support artist Zachary Longboy in transforming his artwork shemanshe into an interactive TouchDesigner experience, extending its storytelling through participatory digital media.

Loretta Sarah Todd is Red River Métis and from St. Paul des Métis, Alberta.