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Phyllis Toben Bancroft

Phyllis Toben Bancroft is a writer, director and producer whose films explore women, identity, memory, longing and transformation. Her work includes SPENT, which won a $100,000 award from Johnson & Johnson and aired on BET; Burned; and the award-winning …with salt, which screened at more than 30 film festivals internationally. Her latest release, Echoes: Four Stories of Becoming, now available on Amazon Prime Video, brings together four of her films. An alumna of the AFI Conservatory, Bancroft is currently developing her feature film Hide and Seek. (Photo by Amina Touray.)

Film

The Things That Echo: What Four Films Taught Me About Becoming

Writer-director Phyllis Toben Bancroft on women, the strange, non-linear nature of becoming and her anthology film Echoes.

August 21, 2026