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Willi White is a film producer and director. He is also a photographer, film & video editor, DP, narrative strategist, and creative designer.

Willi is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and is based in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Over the years, he’s worked extensively as a filmmaker, photographer, multimedia creative and communications professional, spending over 10 years in non-profit communications and media for Indigenous organizations. 

Willi works as the Executive Producer with NDN COLLECTIVE, creating original content to build Indigenous power. He is the producer of LANDBACK For The People, a podcast hosted by Nick Tilsen, founder & CEO of NDN Collective.

At the start of 2026, he founded his production company Good Relative Studios to imagine our best days ahead. Currently, he’s working on two documentary projects and one television series in development.

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Prior to producing his first feature film WAR PONY (2022), directed by Gina Gammell and Riley Keough, released by Momentum Films, which premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard competition and won Camera d’Or (Golden Camera for Best First Feature Film), he started out making music videos for local Indigenous artists and personal short films.

He’s also worked with companies like VOX Media and VICE, before working crew on titles such as WINTER IN THE BLOOD (2013), directed by Alex & Andrew Smith, starring Chaske Spencer and David Morse; AMERICAN HONEY (2016), directed by Andrea Arnold; and
WOMAN WALKS AHEAD (2017), released by A24, directed by Susanna White, starring Jessica Chastain and Michael Greyeyes.

Willi was also part of the producing team on the XTR & IFC Films feature documentary LAKOTA NATION vs. THE UNITED STATES (2022), co-directed by Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli, executive produced by Mark Ruffalo and Sara Eagle Heart, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.

In 2016, he was awarded a fellowship by the Sundance Institute’s Indigenous program, then in 2019 was awarded the inaugural Ascend Summit Grant with ARRAY Alliance, founded by Ava DuVernay.

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