Brittany Woods-Orrison

Brittany Woods-Orrison is a filmmaker from Dleł Taneets, a small village along the Yukon River. Her film journey started with the Native Movement’s Alaska Native Filmmakers Intensive in 2021 where each student made their own film, where she made her first informal film The Land and I Heal One Another. This cohort met again for the Film Makers Intensive in 2024, where they worked on a full set to make a film about the Inupiaq dance groups in Sitnasuak. Woods-Orrison has been on various film crews, including her mentor Princess Johnson films Tribally-Owned Broadband and This is a Story About Salmon. Other media endeavors include working as a host for Native Movement’s Podcast “Half Smoke.” Brittany Woods-Orrison is a director of Deneege Leł Ghu Kk’ots’eedeneeyh Te Heł Hoozoonh Ts’e Denots’edeneeyh (We Get Better When We Tan Moose Hides (Mountainfilm 2026).