Rowena Potts is a filmmaker and media anthropologist with a particular interest in screen production histories and cultures, documentary practice, and archives. Her award-winning short films, which often explore the entangled relationships between humans, their environments, and the non-human or more-than-human world, have screened in festivals and museums internationally. Her writing has appeared in the Visual Anthropology Review and Global Media Journal, as well as in edited collections.
She is a co-founder of The Archival Futures Collective, a creative collaboration dedicated to making experimental films inspired by a wide range of material and digital archives around the world. She holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from NYU and a graduate diploma in documentary from AFTRS, and she participated in the inaugural Impact Producer Program at Documentary Australia.