Paisley Smith is a Canadian filmmaker & virtual reality creator from Vancouver, British Columbia. She is
the creator of Unceded Territories, an interactive VR film with artist and activist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2019. She also created Homestay, an interactive VR documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Homestay is the recipient of ‘Best XR’ for Change at the Games for Change Festival 2019. She is a 2021 Civic Media Fellow with the Annenberg Innovation Lab
at USC. During these times of extraordinary change, she is using her worldbuilding skills to design solutions for deep, meaningful connection and to imagine our Feminist Future. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
