Bridget Besaw

Roles: Director, Producer

As the founder of Seedlight Pictures, Bridget enjoyed a career as an award-winning photographer, capturing stories for Smithsonian, Newsweek, Time, Forbes, and National Geographic, among others. As a Nikon Ambassador and Leica sponsored photographer, Bridget created large scale documentary projects for The Nature Conservancy in all corners of the globe. Her first independent film project culminated in the Growing Local series (2015), and screened to acclaim at festivals nationwide. Her short film Seeding a Dream (2015), won several audience choice awards and was a finalist for the DCEFF Eric Moe Sustainability Award. Her two shorts, Guided and The Nature of Maps, both toured the 2016-2017 festival circuits winning audience choice awards. Bridget’s feature doc in progress, The Mountain & the Magic City, was supported by the LEF Foundation and invited to the Points North Institute Fellowship and the PNI/TFI Retreat. Her latest film, Rooted, premiered in late 2024 at the New Orleans Film Festival and continues to travel to festivals and community venues across the US.

2025 Program(s):
Rooted