Evan L. Chouteau

Evan L. Chouteau is a Mississippi based filmmaker whose career spans scripted and unscripted television. He grew up in Jackson and is now based in Oxford. He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 2017 with a major in Anthropology and a minor in Film Production, then began freelancing across the Southeast to build experience. He later moved to New York City and worked as a production assistant on scripted series including Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Netflix’s Kaleidoscope. After returning to Mississippi in 2023, Evan first managed a grant funded archival and digitization initiative at Mississippi Public Broadcasting. The project’s mission was to preserve the state’s media history and make Mississippi stories accessible digitally for educators, journalists, and the public. Soon after, he pitched himself for HGTV’s Home Town at RTR Media and was hired as an Associate Producer. In April 2025 his work in unscripted television was recognized with membership in the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Evan is also a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, the Society of American Archivists, and the International Documentary Association. He is a member of the Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and a Citizen of the Cherokee Nation. His interests center on anthropological and cultural storytelling, real stories of real people rooted in place and identity. From Oxford he aims to develop projects that reflect Mississippi identity and the voices of Southern artists.