Kai Swanson

Kai Swanson is an independent filmmaker and producer based in LA and NC. She has screened at several international film festivals, including the Buenos Aires International Film Festival, TIFF, Newport Beach Film Festival, and HollyShorts. Kai’s comedic series #millcore is streaming on Amazon Prime and feature film she produced, East of Middle West, is on Apple TV and Amazon Prime.

Kai has won numerous awards for her producing work, including Best American Indie at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, the Audience Award for Best Feature at the Sarasota Film Festival, and Best Producer at the Montreal Independent Film Festival.

Kai's work makes formal and playful obfuscations that parallel the obfuscation of gendered histories. Although distinct in form, the investigation of the individual human experience as being part of a collective or identifiable culture is present in all her work. The goal of this manipulation is to create new relationships with historicity, time, and representations of cultures and identity.