Taylor Hensel is an award-winning Oklahoma-based producer, director, and writer. She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Her work has been seen in festivals globally like Sundance, ImagineNative, and HotDocs among others and has streamed internationally.

She is currently a producer on the short narrative film, Thin Places written and directed by Brit Hensel co-starring Shelby Factor and Quannah Chasinghorse.

Taylors work has contributed to 2024 Critics Choice Nominations and a 2025 IDA Award Nomination. She is the 2023 Sundance Native Labs Artist in Residence and a 2022 IllumiNative Producer Fellow in partnership with Netflix. She most recently was a Series Producer on Season 2 of Reciprocity Project and an Executive Producer on the feature documentary Bad River streaming on Peacock in 2025.

She has worked on the camera crew of Seasons 2 and 3 of the FX series, Reservation Dogs, and as a series producer on Seasons 1 of Reciprocity Project which won a 2023 Anthem Award, a regional California Emmy, and was nominated in two categories at the 2022 International Documentary Association Awards for Best Short Documentary ᎤᏕᏲᏅ (What They’ve Been Taught)  and for Best Short-Form Series (Reciprocity Project Series).

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