Tracey Deer

Tracey Deer is a producerdirectorscreenwruiter who attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire graduating with a degree in film studies She began her professional career with CanWest Broadcasting in Montreal and later joined Rezolution Pictures to codirect emOne More River The Deal that Split the Creeem with a hrefdiamondneilNeil Diamonda Cree which won the Best Documentary Award at the 2005 Rendezvous du cinema qubcois in Montreal and was nominated for Best SocialPolitical Documentary at the Geminis Her work has won acclaim from multiple film festivals including Hot Docs and DOXA She has worked with the CBC the NFB and numerous independent production companies throughout Canada Tracey represents the next wave of Native filmmaking said Adam Symansky NFB producer of emMohawk Girlsem andem Club Nativeem She wrote and directed the series emMohawk Girlsem about the lives of teenagers growing up in Kahnawake It was an extension yet almost completely different from the 2005 documentary with the same title Her 2019 feature emBeansem centres on a 12yearold Mohawk girls comingofage during the harrowing Oka Crisis in Qubec in 1990 It also marks the first feature film to explore the event narratively onscreen We list her credits as a directorbrbrAlso see a hrefhttpwwwnorthernstarscatraceydeerknowsbeansTracey Deer Knows BeansbraAlso see a hrefhttpswwwnorthernstarscadgcannouncesnewleadershipDGC Announces New Leadershipabrbr