episode 023: Apolla Echino
06/29/2021
New York-based Apolla Echino is a natural storyteller. It’s hard not to be enthralled, listening to this filmmaker speak and watching her videos for clients like lululemon, CIBC, Samsung, 23andme, and The Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada.
She grew up in Alberta, Canada, and spent much of her childhood moving around with her young mother. An avid surfer, sports & activity have always been in her blood, from competitive gymnastics to professional dancing. Apolla eventually settled in New York in 2007 to pursue her dancing career, before finding herself a filmmaker instead.
In this episode, we discuss her childhood and parents at length, the reality of being an independent filmmaker, her solo female documentary travel series ‘A Woman’s Guide to the World’ where she sailed to Antarctica in a 100-year-old sail boat & winter surfed in New Zealand, a new film project centred on a transgender woman working in the Alberta oil fields, and more.
links from the episode
Apollonia Productions
A Woman’s Guide to the World
lululemon
CIBC
Samsung
23andme
23andme - Apolla Echino video
The Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada
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