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Dewi (day-wee) is an Indigenous film director and editor based in Louisville, Colorado, on the traditional territory of 48 contemporary tribal nations including the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute, and current home to members of approximately 100 tribal nations. She was born to a young Indonesian birth mother and descends from Dayak, Banjarese, Sundanese, and English ancestors. She was adopted as an infant by white American parents who renamed her “Amy” (a name she has since rescinded) and raised her in white suburbia, with multiple journeys back to Southeast Asia for her adoptive father's work. She and her life+creative partner, Jason Houston, created their production company eight16 creative with the goal to center Indigenous voices, challenge dominant settler storytelling and colonial worldviews, and create art that inspires viewers to heal their relationships with the land and each other. They are currently in production on an art-forward body of work that explores Indigeneity lost, then reclaimed, as Dewi and others break from their white supremacy culture and seek ancestral knowledge in an urgent call to address climate and social justice crises facing humanity. Dewi is a member of A-Doc, ADE, BIPOC Editors, BGDM, Cine Fe, Creative Nations, Kin Theory, and Mountain Media Arts Collective, and has collaborated with a wide range of partners, including ProPublica and Exposure Labs.