Petyr Xyst is a Laguna Pueblo human who has been making movies since the age of five and, for some reason, has kept with it. An Indigenous Film Fund fellow with the Sundance Institute and winner of imagineNATIVE’s Innovation in Storytelling award, Xyst’s films focus on intersections of class, race, and the absurdity of coming of age in the 21st century. In 2019 they were nominated for Rolex’s Mentor and Protégé program and was a finalist for NBCU’s New Mexico Directors Initiative in 2022.
Xyst is a graduate of the University of New Mexico (BFA Film ‘22) and has no opinion on anything.