Bentwood Pictures

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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.

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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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 9 countries and 3 continents.

Feature Screenplay — Next Project

Million Dollar Mask

Seeking fame beyond fortune, a tech billionaire uses AI to make a million-dollar Tsimshian mask speak, only to awaken an orphaned being corrupted by bitterness since 1862. As each demands recognition from the other, their battle of wills drives the man toward madness while forcing both to choose who they will become.

Format — Feature Screenplay
Setting — Contemporary
Genre — Speculative Thriller

Set in the world of Wild Woman of the Woods.
Inspired by the 2008 exhibition Treasures of the Tsimshian from the Dundas Collection at the Museum of Anthropology.

Vertical Micro-Series — In Development

DAXKA

They bait her. She snaps. And every time she snaps, she slips three hundred years back into a raid where snapping gets her whole clan killed.

Format — Vertical Micro-Series · 60–90 second episodes
Setting — Contemporary · Northwest Coast, 1700s
Genre — Sports Drama · Supernatural

Part of the Wild Woman of the Woods Universe.

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

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.

Tobi Iverson, founder of Bentwood Pictures

Founder & Cultural Producer

Tobi Iverson is a Tsimshian and Turtle Mountain Chippewa screenwriter and cultural producer. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Arthur Wellington Clah, who kept the only known Indigenous diary of the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest Coast — sixty-nine volumes, fifty years, 1859 to 1909 — and holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Washington, Seattle, with American Indian Studies as her area of study.

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. Tobi brings them to the screen.

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Amy Iverson, Social Media and Content Manager at Bentwood Pictures

Social Media & Content Manager

Amy Iverson manages social media and digital content for Bentwood Pictures, supporting the company's film projects, festival presence, and industry communications.

A professional social media content creator with experience across businesses, weddings, and live events, she has worked with Tobi Iverson for years managing social media and creating content for her businesses. She brings that experience to Bentwood Pictures as the company builds its audience and brings its projects into the marketplace.

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