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About

A bentwood box is made from a single plank of cedar — scored, steamed, and bent without seam or joint. It holds what matters. It travels. It remembers.

Bentwood Pictures develops Northwest Coast stories the world hasn't heard yet. The mythic ones. The historical ones. The ones where spirit, animal, and human worlds move through each other — and where traditions that survived everything still have something to say.


Built the way the boxes are built. One material. Nothing cut away that belongs.

The story and the culture carry each other.

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Current Work

Feature Film — Seeking Production & Financing Partners

Wild Woman of the Woods

Thrown from a cliff at birth, she survived. A castaway daughter carrying a volatile shamanic relic must hunt down the architect of the plague — the most feared chieftainess on the coast — or watch her world be erased forever.

Writer & Cultural Producer: Tobi Iverson
Entertainment Counsel: Caitlin DiMotta, Troy Gould PC

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The first story out of the box. Not the last.

Austin Film Festival — Winner Pitch Competition, 2025
WorldFest-Houston — Silver Remi 2026
The Writers Lab Canada — Bold Voice Award 2026
Montréal Women Film Festival — Award 2026
Artist Trust of Washington — Fellow 2026
Rhode Island Int'l Film Festival — Finalist Oscar-qualifying, 2025
Berlin International Screenwriting — Finalist 2026
London Screenwriting Competition — Finalist 2026
Recognized across 8 countries and 3 continents.
Wild Woman of the Woods film poster
Lax Kw'alaams on the northwest coast of British Columbia
Lax Kw'alaams — formerly Port Simpson — sits on the northwest coast of British Columbia. Home to the Nine Allied Tribes of the Tsimshian Nation, it is the territory where Arthur Wellington Clah lived, wrote, and bore witness to the 1862 smallpox epidemic. It is the world where Wild Woman of the Woods begins.

Founder

Tobi Iverson is a Tsimshian, Nisga'a, Killer Whale Clan, and Turtle Mountain Chippewa screenwriter and cultural producer. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Arthur Wellington Clah — the only known Indigenous diarist of the Northwest Coast in the 1860s — and holds a B.A. in Anthropology and American Indian Studies from the University of Washington.

She is a 2026 Artist Trust of Washington Fellow and the founder of Bentwood Pictures. Her work tells Northwest Coast stories. The lesser-known ones. The mythic ones. Stories where animal, spirit, and human worlds are never separate — part of the great living tradition of oral histories that became literature, became legend, became the way humanity understands itself. Those stories exist here too. The world just hasn't heard them yet.

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Contact

Industry Inquiries

inquiries@bentwoodpictures.com

Producers, financiers, co-production partners — and Northwest Coast and Native creatives interested in the work.

Entertainment Counsel

Caitlin DiMotta
Troy Gould PC

Film Site

wildwomanofthewoodsfilm.com