Introducing
Tracy Rector
"Playfulness. Intelligence. Heeding the wisdom of female elders. Sharing the blessings of life and carrying the burdens together, in community — the best traits of our own species are ones we share with elephants.
These long-lived relatives also offer us essential lessons for how to co-exist with other species, and with Earth. In an age of strife and despair, I'm grateful to the Great Elephant Migration for creatively conveying how an environmental challenge became a story of hope. And I'm thankful to elephants, who remind us to be more attuned to the abundance of life. How lucky we are to exist on the same planet as these majestic giants, to be made of the same stardust!"
Tracy Rector brings to the practice of storytelling a passion for amplifying and uplifting Indigenous and Global Majority creatives. As an Emmy® Award-winning producer, she carries three decades of experience as a community organizer, educator, filmmaker, podcast executive producer, film programmer, arts curator and activist all infused with her deep roots in plant medicine. For the last 25 years, she has directed and produced over 400 films including shorts, features, music videos, and virtual reality projects. In 2023, FORBES recognizedTracyas a global climate leader changing the Film and TV Industries.
Tracy’s work has been featured on Independent Lens, ImagineNative, PBS, and National Geographic, as well as at international film festivals including Sundance, Cannes, and Toronto. She is currently a programmer with the Seattle International Film Festival, served as a Seattle Arts Commissioner for 8 years, is a Stranger Genius Award recipient, sits on the boards of Working Films and the Flaherty Seminar and is an inaugural Advisory Council Member for the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She enjoys travel, design, waterfall hikes, and learning about new cultural, creative and social ecology movements. She is a proud mother of two adults.
