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Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers is a filmmaker actor and writer. Her films have screened at numerous international festivals including Torontos imagineNATIVE and the Vancouver International Film Festival. In 2012 her short film A Red Girls Reasoning won the Best Canadian Short Drama at imagineNATIVE. In 2013 she was selected for the Indigenous Film Fellowship by the International Smi Film Centre in Norway to develop her first feature-length screenplay. In February of 2016 it was announced that her film When The Dust Settles would receive a $10,000 production fund grant from the Hot Docs R.M. Lang Foundation CrossCurrents program. She cowrote and co-directed the 2019 feature The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open with Kathleen Hepburn
We list her credits as a director first.
Also see: A Stellar Opening.
Features & TV Movies
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
Bloodland (2011, short)
A Red Girl’s Reasoning (2012, short)
Bihttos (documentary, 2014, short)
Rebel (documentary, 2014, short)
The Embargo Project (2015)
c’sna?m: The city before the city (2017, documentary)
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (co-director, 2019)
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy (2021, documentary)
Credits as a Screenwriter:
Bloodland (2011, short)
A Red Girl’s Reasoning (2012, short)
Bihttos (documentary, 2014, short)
Rebel (documentary, 2014, short)
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (co-writer, 2019)
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy (2021, documentary)
TV Series:
Queen of the Oil Patch (2018)
Credits as an Actor:
Another Cinderella Story (VR-2008)
Howard & Betty (2009, short)
Bloodland (2011, short)
A Red Girl’s Reasoning (2012, short)
Rez Carz (voice, 2013, short)
Not Indian Enough (2014, short)
The Embargo Project (2015)
Love in Paradise (TV-2016)
On the Farm (TV-2016)
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019)
Blood Quantum (2019)
Night Raiders (2021)
Stellar (2022)
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