about:

Olívia is a multidisciplinary storyteller living in the Green Mountains of Vermont. They hold their MFA from Brooklyn College's Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, where they wrote and directed their first short film, Vespa. In 2023-2024, Vespa screened at some of the top genre film festivals in the world and garnered awards from the New Faces New Voices Film Festival, Vermont Film & Folklore Festival, and Mórbido Film Festival. Fascinated by ecology and its intersections with the digital age, Olívia is delighted that the film has been used as an educational resource at Columbia College Chicago's School of Communications & Culture and is thrilled to be screening at the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment's Biennial Conference in 2025. She is currently finishing her experimental, mixed media documentary short, Ground, writing and illustrating her first eco-educational children's book (for adults, too!), and developing two mixed media films that continue to blur the line between human and nonhuman nature. Inspired by fields like biomimicry and ideas like String Theory, Olívia is a deep believer that everything is everything. They hope their art helps people see themselves as part of nature and question the lines between any and all seemingly disparate things.