Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers: Creating Space For Joy

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Lisa speaks with Award winning Filmmaker/Actor Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers about what starring as an indigenous woman in the globally acclaimed program "Three Pines"  meant to her and the community that she represents.

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers  is a filmmaker and actor. She is a member of the Kainai First Nation (Blackfoot Confederacy) as well as Sámi from Norway. She co-wrote and co-directed the narrative feature The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open with Kathleen Hepburn, which premiered at the Berlinale in 2019 and received the Toronto Film Critics Association for best Canadian film which was also nominated for six Canadian Screen Awards; for which she and Hepburn received the awards for best direction and best original screenplay. Her ’ feature-length documentary, GEE-maa-bee-bit-sinKímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy, won the 2022 Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary. She also took home the 2022 Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Performance by an actress for her role in Danis Goulet's Night Raiders.  Most recently, she directed three episodes of the new Crave limited series, Little Bird. She also appeared as Sargeant Isabelle Lacoste in the Prime Video series Three Pines.

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