Gail Maurice
Gail Maurice is a fluent Cree/Michif speaking actor and an award-winning filmmaker. She created her own company Assini Productions to tell stories that highlight strong Indigenous female leads. She translates and speaks her language whenever she can on the big and little screen. She translated and played the role of Ida, in Night Raiders. She translated/co-wrote and played the role of Meetos, in Quebexit and won Best Screenplay at the Whistler Film Festival 2020.
Bones of Crows
as Older Taylor WhallachCree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to...
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Night Raiders
as IdaThe year is 2043. A military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in post-war North...
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Finn's Girl
as NancyDr. Finn Jeffries plays a new stepmother to her deceased lover's daughter Zelly. She also took...
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Québexit
as MeetosQuébexit is a multi-lingual (English, French, Cree) ensemble political comedy: when a...
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Rosie
as NancyAn orphaned Indigenous girl is forced to live with her reluctant, street-smart, francophone...
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Aberdeen
as AberdeenAn idyllic childhood with her mooshum and kookum, or grandparents, in her community of Peguis...
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Giant Mine
as TechnicianCBC's dramatic account of the tragedy of Yellowknife's Giant Mine, in which 9 miners were killed...
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Falls Around Her
as InezA world-famous Anishinaabe musician returns to the reserve to rest and recharge — only to...
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The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw
as Annabelle BearclawAs MITZI BEARCLAW turns 25 years-old, she is faced with a tragic decision – stay in the big city...
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Wakening
as uncreditedIn the near future, the environment has been destroyed and society suffocates under a brutal...
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Inconvenient Indian
as uncreditedBased on the bestselling book, this urgent feature documentary from celebrated director Michelle...
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Big Bear
as NowakichThe story of Big Bear, the real life Cree chief who campaigned for his people and their land...
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Four Faces of the Moon
as Narrator (Michif/Cree)Follow the animated journey of an Indigenous photographer as she travels through time. The oral...
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Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics
as uncreditedMeneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics dives deeply into the innate contrast between the Seven...
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Boxed In
as uncreditedIn this short film, a young woman of mixed ancestry struggles with an Equal Opportunity Form...
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Outlander
as TsotehwehThe story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in...
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Diggstown
as Annabel DraperFollow Marcie Diggs, a star corporate lawyer who reconsiders her priorities after her beloved...
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Don't Even
as uncreditedFollow two best friends in late '90s Winnipeg as they face uncertain futures after high school.
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