Cadence Barreda is a student from Oklahoma. She is an avid movie watcher and discovered her love of making movies in 2021 after the making of her debut short Game Night which won Best Short at the Finger mullet Film Festival, the Silver award at the Native Indigenous Academy for Cinematic Arts as well as being featured in over 10 other festivals including the deadCenter Film Festival, which is Academy Award qualifying. Her other films have played in festivals all over the US as well as internationally. She is a proud Latina and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.