Rowena Potts is a filmmaker and anthropologist of media.

Her short films explore a wide range of subjects, including the entanglements of people and animals in urban settings and the complexity of our unfolding relationship to off-Earth environments. They have screened in festivals and museums around the world.

She is a co-founder (with Ceridwen Dovey) of The Archival Futures Collective, a creative collaboration dedicated to making archival experimental films about human relationships with nature and landscapes on Earth and in outer space.

Rowena holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from New York University, and a graduate diploma in documentary from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS). She earned her bachelor's degree in Comparative Religion from Harvard University.

Rowena is currently Lecturer in Creative Practice at AFTRS.