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Biography
Marie has ignited her brand of artistry within a variety of mediums including film, TV, radio, and live performance. Her latest project, the feature drama Red Snow has won Most Popular Canadian Feature Film at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Best Canadian Feature Film at the Edmonton International Film Festival; earned nominations for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Film, and won the Best Director of a Feature at the 2019 American Indian Film Festival (AIFF) in San Francisco and Best Achievement in Film from the L.A. Skins Festival in Los Angeles. Red Snow has recently been nominated for 10 Leo Awards and her feature music documentary, The Road Forward, produced by the NFB premiered at Hot Docs, opened the 2017 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, closed the 2018 ImagineNATIVE Film Festival, receiving five Leo Awards including Best Production, Best Director, and Best Screenwriter. The Road Forward has screened at over 300 venues in North America also receiving a Best Director Award at the AIFF, as well as, a Writer's Guild Nomination for Best Documentary Screenplay in 2018. A 2019 Telefilm Canada Birks Diamond Tribute to Women In Film recipient, Marie was also nominated for a DGC Best Director Award for her work on Red Snow. She received the WFF Women on Top Award and WIFTTV Spotlight Impact Award 2018.
As a writer, director and showrunner, Marie is currently working on a slate of television projects including Our Beloved Kin with co-showrunner Michael Hirst produced by Devonshire Productions/Conquering Lion Pictures, The Red with co-showrunner Sherry White produced by Halfire Entertainment/Eagle Vision. MCM projects in development include Bones of Crows with Screen Siren Pictures/Sam Grana Productions, Sparrow with Wind Sun Sky Entertainment/Eagle Vision, Winnetou with Rezolution Films/Cedar Island Films, and feature films Tombs with Screen Siren Pictures, McLean Brothers with Soapbox Productions and Reclaim My Skin with Rezolution Pictures. As a writer/director Marie is working on feature documentary We Are Family with the National Film Board, and is set to direct Warrior Ride with M1 Films.
Productions
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Artist Information
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