Bentwood
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Those pictures are becoming color.

Some stories aren’t told. They return.

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About

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.

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Current Work

Feature Film · Seeking Production & Financing Partners

Wild Woman of the Woods

Thrown from a cliff at birth, she survived. Now, as smallpox tears across the Northwest Coast, she races for the medicine that can save her people, only to find it hoarded by the most feared chieftainess alive: her mother.

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 Award Long Script, 2026
Artist Trust · Fellow 2026
The Writers Lab Canada · Bold Voice Award 2026
Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival · Finalist 2025
London International Screenwriting and Film Festival · Feature Screenplay Finalist 2026
Recognized across 9 countries and 3 continents.
Wild Woman of the Woods film poster

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 screenwriter and cultural producer of Nisga’a and Turtle Mountain Chippewa descent. 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. She 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.

John Halliday, Tribal and Government Relations at Bentwood Pictures

Tribal and Government Relations

John Halliday is a Muckleshoot Duwamish elder. Former CEO and Tribal Administrator of the Muckleshoot Tribe and the Snoqualmie Tribe. Former BIA Superintendent at the Warm Springs Indian Reservation and Deputy Regional Director of the BIA Navajo Region. He started Muckleshoot Seafood Products and the White River Amphitheater.

He serves on the board of United Indians of All Tribes and speaks on Washington tribal histories for the Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau. At Bentwood Pictures, he leads tribal and government relations for Wild Woman of the Woods.

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“My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.”

Louis Riel

Attributed through Métis oral tradition.

Contact

Industry Inquiries

inquiries@bentwoodpictures.com

Producers, financiers, co-production partners, and Northwest Coast and Native creatives interested in the work.

Entertainment Counsel

Caitlin DiMotta
Troy Gould PC

Film Site

wildwomanofthewoodsfilm.com