Puhm’s directing portfolio includes Milk, G-Pigs, Yaeko and Garbage Person, alongside conventional television and production work. She founded Matriarch; its biography describes her previous role leading Dream Lab Los Angeles at Luma AI.
Why follow this filmmaker
Her credits show a continuing filmmaking practice with named collaborators in editing, sound and visual effects. That makes her work useful to follow for the relationship between a director’s story choices and a small specialist team, rather than for a single striking generation.
Nobody Dies on Mars gives that interest a concrete premise: a chef loses his sense of taste on Mars and develops a friendship with an alien companion. Food, identity and dependence give the speculative setting a personal dramatic problem.
A project to follow, with its status clear
The original upload is explicitly a trailer submission, not a complete-film release. XPRIZE’s official results now confirm second place and a $100,000 runner-up cash award. The competition evaluated trailers and treatments; this result does not establish a completed feature.
Watch the credited trailer. Its description names Puhm as director, Puhm and James Stowe as writers, Jack Hahn as editor, Joachim M. Weber for music and sound design, and Brian Wankum for VFX. This is a list of disclosed roles, not a verified total crew count. Specific models, budget and the division between generated and conventional material remain undisclosed in that description.