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  2. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers - Wikipedia

    • Elle-Máijá Apiniskim Tailfeathers (born in 1986 ) is a Canadian filmmaker, actor, and producer. She has won several accolades for her film work, including multiple Canadian Screen Awards. Born in Cardston, Alberta, Tailfeathers began acting in the late 2000s before embarking on a career as a filmmaker. For directing The Body Remembers When the Worl… See more

    Early life

    Tailfeathers was born to Bjarne Store-Jakobsen, a Sámi rights activist and journalist from Norway, and Kainai activist and doctor Esther Tailfeathers, from Canada. Her parents met at a global indigenous … See more

    Career

    Tailfeathers studied acting at the Vancouver Film School, and graduated in 2006 and then moved on to the University of British Columbia where she would graduate with a degree in First Nations studies and a minor in … See more

    Themes and issues

    Her work has garnered attention for its focus on representations of women of colour, and her thematic focus on First Nations subjects and issues. Tailfeathers explores "innovative means of telling stories through me… See more

    Awards and recognition

    She has won and been nominated for awards at various international film festivals, and has been recognized for her work rooted in social justice. Notable recognition has included receiving a Kodak Image Awa… See more

    Personal life

    Tailfeathers divides her time between Vancouver Canada, the Blood Reserve, and Sapmi territory in Norway.
    She is active in advocating for issues affecting First Nations communities. In 2011, she … See more

     
  1. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

    elle-mÁijÁ tailfeathers is a writer, director, producer and actor. she is a member of the kainai first nation (blood tribe, blackfoot confederacy) as well as sÁmi from uŊÁrga (nesseby, norway).

  2. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers - IMDb

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    elle-mÁijÁ tailfeathers is a writer, director, producer and actor. she is a member of the kainai first nation (blood tribe, blackfoot confederacy) as well as sÁmi from norway. beginning her career as an actor in 2006 and a filmmaker …

  4. Indigenous Multi-Hyphenate Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Is …

    Dec 13, 2022 · There’s a scene in the first episode of Prime Video’s new Canadian mystery-crime series Three Pines in which an Indigenous woman named Bea, played by acclaimed Cree and Métis actor Tantoo Cardinal, …

  5. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Amplifies the Lived Experience …

    Nov 3, 2021 · Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers expresses her need to tell the story cradled within her documentary Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy — about the opioid overdose epidemic in her southern Alberta...

  6. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (NO) - nordicwomeninfilm

    Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers is a writer, director, producer and actor. She is a member of the Kainai First Nation (Blood Tribe, Blackfoot Confederacy) as well as Sámi from Norway.

  7. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ Radical Simplicity - RANGE

    Sep 29, 2023 · Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers' Radical Simplicity. The actor, director, and producer celebrates a milestone in Indigenous representation with new film Stellar while charting the work ahead. by Maggie McPhee. Published on September …

  8. How Director Elle-Maija Tailfeathers Discovered a Path to ... - Variety

  9. Elle-Máijá Apiniskim Tailfeathers - imagineNATIVE Film

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