Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

The Embargo Project

Caroline Monnet, Zoe Leigh Hopkins

Clint Andrew, Marie Brassard

Five Indigenous women filmmakers from across Canada challenge one another to make a film under a set of restrictions tailored to each filmmaker.

Bloodland

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Byron Chief-Moon, Cowboy Smithx

A social statement on the irreversible and detrimental impact of gas and oil exploration on our planet and in particular the impact that hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking' will have on Kainaiwa, or the Blood Reserve in Canada. This film was shot with a completely Indigenous cast and crew.

Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Follow filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers as she creates an intimate portrait of her community and the impacts of the substance use and overdose epidemic. Witness the change brought by community members with substance-use disorder, first responders and medical professionals as they strive for harm reduction in the Kainai First Nation.

Bihttoš

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Duncan Ollerenshaw, Mariel Belanger

Bihttoš is an unconventional documentary that explores the complex relationship between a father and daughter. Through animation, re-enactments, and archival photos, writer/director Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers delves into the dissolution of her parents’ mythic love story and how it has colored her perception of love in her adult life.

A Red Girl's Reasoning

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Jessica Matten, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

After the justice system fails the survivor of a brutal, racially-driven sexual assault, she becomes a motorcycle-riding, ass-kicking vigilante who takes on the attackers of other women who've suffered the same fate.

On the Farm

Rachel Talalay

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Sara Canning

Based on a true story, a powerful study of the dysfunction and disorder in the police and criminal justice systems that allowed a wily psychopath to murder nearly 50 marginalised women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open

Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Violet Nelson, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

When Áila encounters a young Indigenous woman, barefoot and crying in the rain on the side of a busy street, she soon discovers that this young woman, Rosie, has just escaped a violent assault at the hands of her boyfriend. Áila decides to bring Rosie home with her and over the course of the evening, the two navigate the aftermath of this traumatic event.

Love in Paradise

Sean McNamara

Luke Perry, Emmanuelle Vaugier

When a Western movie star is forced to spend a PR weekend at a dude ranch, his fans are horrified to learn he's actually a city slicker who's afraid of horses and has never been west of the Hudson River.

Another Cinderella Story

Damon Santostefano

Selena Gomez, Drew Seeley

A guy who danced with what could be the girl of his dreams at a costume ball only has one hint at her identity: the Zune she left behind as she rushed home in order to make her curfew. And with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in front of him, he sets out to find his masked beauty.

Blood Quantum

Jeff Barnaby

Майкл Грейес, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.

Night Raiders

Danis Goulet

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Brooklyn Letexier-Hart

The year is 2043. A military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in post-war North America. Children are property of the State. A desperate Cree woman joins an underground band of vigilantes to infiltrate a State children’s academy and get her daughter back. Night Raiders is a female-driven dystopian drama about resilience, courage and love.

Night Raiders

Danis Goulet

Amanda Plummer, Ray G. Thunderchild

The year is 2043. A military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in post-war North America. Children are property of the State. A desperate Cree woman joins an underground band of vigilantes to infiltrate a State children’s academy and get her daughter back. Night Raiders is a female-driven dystopian drama about resilience, courage and love.