Words by Sydney Horn | Images by Olivia Perillo
Syd Horn is a Jane of all trades, a fearless conduit of novel authenticity. After writing her first short film, Migration, she began to develop her unique style of art direction, screenwriting, producing, and editing. She is passionate about building creative teams, and she is determined to progress her personal mission of delivering diverse narratives about humanity and its counterparts via film, written publication, live performance, and music, in hopes of moving her viewers and fellow collaborators toward kind curiosity, celebration of individuality, and a world who’s original, inclusive, and sustainable.
Olivia Perillo is a photographer, filmmaker, visual artist, and archivist whose documentary approach is focused on preserving, progressing, and relating the cultural ethos of Southwest Louisiana and the American Southwest. Her work in each medium continues on themes of cultural celebration and regional music, social environmentalism through storytelling, healing through ancestral exploration, and connection with the micros + macros of the natural world. Her photography has been supported by Chanel, The New York Times, The Marshall Project, and Country Roads Magazine.
Syd + Olivia have made two documentaries together, Intention (2020) and Migration (2018), with more projects in the works in 2022. Honest Art has been supported by Panavision, TV5Monde, Cox Communications, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Lafayette Travel, Southern Screen, and Acadiana Center for the Arts.
