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’s films have been screened at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, UCLA Film and Television Archive, NewFilmmakers Los Angeles, the National Film Festival for Talented Youth, Delta Airlines, and AMC+.
Xyst is a graduate of the University of New Mexico (BFA Film ‘22) and has no opinion on anything.