Steven Thomas Davies is a filmmaker and media artist of Snuneymuxw and European-Canadian descent. He makes films and media art that focus on Indigenous histories and epistemologies to educate himself and others. By referencing Indigenous sovereignty and Indigenous cultural resurgence, his goal is to challenge dominant western perspectives and relationships to land, waters, and place. He feels a huge responsibility to the artists and cultural leaders that have mentored and supported his growth, and the individuals whose voices and actions are shared in his work. Steven was nominated for the Polygon Gallery’s Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize and awarded a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship Master’s Award in 2018, and in 2017 was honoured to receive a BC Achievement award for First Nations Art. Steven is completing an MFA in Visual Arts at UBC Okanagan with a research focus on spiritual, cultural, and political resurgence efforts in the traditional Coast Salish territories of the Snuneymuxw, Lekwungen speaking Peoples (now known as the Esquimalt and Songhees), W̱SÁNEĆ, and Cowichan Tribes.