Talent Guide
Jonathan Olshefski
- Discipline:Director
- Program Year:Documentary Lab 2022
Bio
Jonathan Olshefski is an artist and documentary filmmaker. His debut feature documentary Quest premiered at Sundance in 2017 and was nominated for two News and Documentary Emmys. In 2018 he received the “Truer than Than Fiction Award” at the Independent Spirit Awards and was selected for a Pew Artist Fellowship. Olshefski strives to tell intimate and nuanced stories that honor his protagonists’ complexity by employing a production process that emphasizes collaboration, dialogue, and relationship in order to amplify their voices and reflect their points of view in an artful way.
Current Project
Without ArrowsLogline
Filmed with vérité intimacy over the course of twelve years (2011 - 2022), Without Arrows chronicles the choices, events, and relationships that shape a Lakota family’s legacy.