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Marie Burke (2)

Marie Burke

Marie Burke

Marie Burke is of Cree/Dene and European ancestry and her cinema is informed by Indigenous community activism and journalism. She worked as a print journalist with the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta and as a broadcaster/reporter with A-Channel, where she created Indigenous programming. Her director credits include the four-part series The Quest of Buffalo Spirit; the documentary Spirit Doctors, featuringtraditional Okanagan healers Mary and Ed Louie; and Vistas: Carrying Fire, one in a series of shorts by Indigenous directors on the theme of nationhood. She has worked as an Indigenous consultant for the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

Cinéaste dynamique et polyvalente kanien’kéhaka (mohawk) de Kahnawake, Tracy Deer fait des documentaires et de la fiction, tant à titre de productrice et de réalisatrice que de scénariste. Mohawk Girls (2005), portrait captivant d’un groupe d’adolescentes de sa réserve natale, a remporté le Prix Alanis-Obomsawin du meilleur documentaire au festival imagineNATIVE; Tracy Deer a par la suite adapté le film en une télésérie à succès. On lui doit aussi Club Native, qui explore les règles contestées sur le degré de sang indien, et Kanien’kehá:ka: Living the Language, sur un programme d’immersion linguistique en kanien’kehá:ka. En 2006, elle a fondé la maison Mohawk Princess Pictures, vouée à refléter « les réalités complexes de la vie autochtone moderne. »