Evan Briggs is an independent documentary filmmaker whose short films have premiered in film festivals all over the country, including NYC, Miami, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Baltimore and Portland. Her first feature length film, The Growing Season, received press coverage from numerous national and international media outlets, including CNN, ABC, The Atlantic, Forbes, Huffington Post, PBS NewsHour, and The Today Show, among many others. The original trailer has been translated into multiple languages and viewed on social media by more than 250 million people worldwide. The film also inspired delegates from 16 countries on six different continents to visit the nursing home in West Seattle where Evan filmed The Growing Season in order to bring the concept back to their home communities. Following one such visit, a group from Singapore began building a $1 billion intergenerational facility. As a result, Evan was invited to deliver a TEDx talk on the subject of intergenerational relationships. The Growing Season premiered at DOC NYC in November 2017 and inspired the Care Across Generations Act which was introduced on the Senate floor by Sens. Doug Jones (D-AL) and Martha McSally (R-AZ) in May 2019. The bill was sidelined due to COVID, and is being reintroduced in 2024.
Evan has taught filmmaking through the Digital Media Academy in San Francisco, as well as at the Seattle Film Institute and Seattle University. She also works as a freelance director, creating video content for clients such as Facebook’s Global Business Marketing division, and served as in-house videographer for Seattle Children's Hospital for nearly a decade. In November 2023, she was elected to serve a four year term on the Seattle School Board.
Evan received an M.F.A. in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University and a B.A. in Literature from Duke University. She lives with her husband and three children in Seattle, the traditional territories of the Coast Salish people, specifically the Duwamish people.