Petra Totten

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Petra Totten (BA, MFA) is an award-winning nonfiction film and video artist currently based in Toronto, Ontario. Her work has won awards at the Emmys and InsideOut, and has been screened across Europe, Asia, and North America. Currently pursuing a PhD in Cinema Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto, Totten’s work is exploratory in nature, seeking to highlight the beauty in lived experience; utilizing the essay film form and visual anthropology to represent queer and trans communities in ways grounded in care and mutual respect.