Colleen Thurston

Roles: Director

Colleen Thurston is a documentary storyteller, producer and film curator from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has created non-fiction film and videos for the Smithsonian Channel, Vox, and museums, public television, and federal and tribal organizations. Her work has screened at international film festivals and broadcast nationwide. Grounding her practice in place-based narratives, her films intertwine Indigenous world views and center exploratory artistic approaches.

In 2025 Colleen is premiering her first feature documentary, DROWNED LAND, which examines the cycle of displacement as it is related to resource extraction in her tribe, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

2025 Program(s):
Drowned Land