Olivia Peace
Olivia Peace makes films that slide cinema into new dimensions.
Their work has been championed by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Gotham Group, Sundance, TIFF, The New York Times, GLAAD, Cannes, Adobe, SFFilm, Northwestern University (where they learned to direct + animate), University of Southern California (where they learned to code + worldbuild), & festivals around the world.
Their student Academy Award–winning work “Against Reality” began as a self-directed experiment in lucid dreaming, using film as a tool to navigate altered states of consciousness and test how sublime experiences can be documented and shared. That inquiry continues to shape their practice, which treats cinema as an active space for transformation rather than a passive container for story. They are drawn to moments of transformation that reveal how people adapt, reconfigure, and keep going.
They love rollercoasters and wild people.
Peace’s debut feature, TAHARA (Film Movement / Mubi) starring Rachel Sennott and Madeline Grey DeFreece, was named a New York Times Critics’ Pick and praised for its emotional depth, humor, and formal originality. The film follows a cataclysmic event in the life of a queer teenager and the doomed romance that emerges in response.
Their upcoming feature, In Case of Apocalypse, is an afrosurrealist meditation on love, environment, and transformation—turning a modern American Dream story into a darkly funny creation myth.
Their next feature film will be set in Detroit. if you’d like to support that effort? Reach out. 🌻
Their next feature film will be set in Detroit. if you’d like to support that effort? Reach out. 🌻
the indefinite village
Olivia collaborates frequently with members of The Indefinite Village
which is both quite literally their artists’ collective
as well as a sprawling network of beings
(lakes, ancestors, forests, bacteria, neighbors, best friends etc.)
that have kept Olivia from ever suffering the embarrassment of making something boring.
Olivia is incredibly grateful for this co-creation process
and owes much of their career to this force.
the indefinite village
Olivia collaborates frequently with members of The Indefinite Village
which is both quite literally their artists’ collective
as well as a sprawling network of beings
(lakes, ancestors, forests, bacteria, neighbors, best friends etc.)
that have kept Olivia from ever suffering the embarrassment of making something boring.
Olivia is incredibly grateful for this co-creation process
and owes much of their career to this force.