KAHLIL HUDSON is an Emmy® Award-winning film and commercial director. He is an executive producer, director and creator of the HBO documentary series “Navajo Police: Class 57” currently streaming on MAX.

His most recent feature documentary, WILDLAND, won two Emmy® Awards for Editing and Cinematography as the season-premiere broadcast of acclaimed PBS series Independent Lens.

Kahlil’s debut feature, LOW AND CLEAR won the Audience Award at the SXSW Film Festival and was named Paste Magazine’s “100 Best Documentaries of All Time.” His work has screened and won awards at film festivals including Tribeca, South by Southwest, AFI, Hot Docs, IDFA, Camden and True/False. He is a Sundance Institute Time Warner Fellow and received the Discovery Impact Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

Kahlil has directed commercials and films for brands including Ram Trucks, Patagonia, Filson, Jeep, Yeti, Porsche, REI, Chevrolet and Nike.

Born and raised in Juneau, Alaska, Kahlil is an enrolled member of the Tlingit & Haida Tribes of Alaska and is T’aakdeintaan (Sea Tern Clan) as well as English and Filipino. He holds an MFA in film directing from UCLA and is the department chair and associate professor in film production at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Contact:  kahlil.hudson@gmail.com