BREAK THE SILENCE

WILLOW O’FERAL is the producer, director, and cinematographer of feature documentaries Sisters Rising and Break the Silence. She is a proud member of New Day Films, the longest running distribution cooperative for independent documentary filmmakers in the US. She is also a member of the Film Fatales, was a Fledgling Fellow at the 2018 DX Investigative Film Festival in Washington DC, and was honored with a Choice Champion Award by Planned Parenthood of Northern New England for her work in creating the documentary Break the Silence, which also won Best Documentary Feature at La Frontera Queer Film Festival. Her 2020 documentary Sisters Rising, about Native American women restoring personal and tribal sovereignty in the face of ongoing sexual & colonial violence against Indigenous women in the US, has garnered numerous recognitions including Best Film Award from Women's Voices Now Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature at the American Indian Film Festival, the Thaddeus Stevens Award at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, and a Silver Telly Award for Social Impact. Sisters Rising is distributed by Women Make Movies and nationally broadcast on PBS America ReFramed.  Willow is from Northern California and now lives in Vermont.