Tracey Deer

Tracey Deer is a producer-director-screenwriter 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 co-direct One More River, The Deal that Split the Cree with Neil Diamond. It won the Best Documentary Award at the 2005 Rendezvous du cinema québcois in Montreal and was nominated for Best Social-Political Documentary at the Gemini Awards. 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 Club Native and Mohawk Girls, about the lives of teenagers growing up in Kahnawake, which she wrote and directed. It was an extension of, yet almost completely different from, the 2005 documentary with the same title. Her 2019 feature Beans centres on a 12-year-old Mohawk girl’s coming-of-age during the harrowing Oka Crisis in Québec in 1990. It also marks the first feature film to explore the event narratively onscreen.

We list her credits as a director.

Also see: Tracey Deer Knows Beans.
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