Mohawk Princess Pictures is a new player in the Aboriginal film and television production milieu. Launched by one of Canada’s leading Aboriginal talents, Tracey Deer, the company is committed to showcasing vibrant and compelling stories that showcase the complex realities of modern Aboriginal life through documentary and fiction programming.
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Working it Out Together, season II
Finding Our Talk: Hawaii, season III
Rezolution Pictures
13 X 22 minutes
The once banned Hawaiian language is now the only indigenous language officially recognized by any state in the United States. This recognition paved the way for a complete education in the Hawaiian language. From early childhood education to post-graduate studies, Hawaiians may choose to complete their full education in the Hawaiian language.
Project Vitals
Status: Development
Writer: Tracey Deer
Directors: Pepper O'Bomsawin,
Producers: Tracey Deer, Catherine Bainbridge, Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick, Ernest Webb
Host: Waneek Horn Miller
Dream Big
Working It Out Together, a thirteen part series, will follow the journey of Olympian Waneek Horn-Miller as she sets out to empower eight Aboriginal people to turn their lives around. Relying on her extensive knowledge and other experts, the group will tackle issues surrounding health and wellness - and the biggest challenge of all, to conquer the obstacles that sabotage success. Together, they will prove that “working it out” is worth the effort!
Working it Out Together, season I
Club Native
Olympian Waneek Horn-Miller wants to make a difference. Working it Out Together is the six-part documentary series that follows her on her journey to empower six Mohawk people to reclaim their vitality through health, wellness, and fitness.
Rezolution Pictures
6 X 22 minutes
Dream Big teams up Aboriginal youth who have big dreams for their future with a successful mentor in that field. In each episode, a new pair will share a “day-in-the-life” experience that will expose our young participants to the thrill of doing what you love – and getting paid for it!
Current Projects
Project Vitals
Status: Completed 2011
Writer: Tracey Deer
Directors: Tracey Deer, Pepper O'Bomsawin,
Producers: Tracey Deer, Catherine Bainbridge, Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick, Ernest Webb
Host: Waneek Horn Miller
Mushkeg Media
24 minutes
Project Vitals
Status: Development
Writer: Tracey Deer
Directors: Tracey Deer, Pepper O'Bomsawin, Reaghan Tarbell, Courtney Montour
Producers: Tracey Deer, Catherine Bainbridge, Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick, Ernest Webb
Host: Rachelle White Wind
Project Vitals
Status: Completed 2009
Director: Tracey Deer
Producers: Paul Richard, George Hargrave
Mohawk Princess Pictures & Rezolution Pictures
13 X 22 minutes
Rezolution Pictures & The National Film Board of Canada
78 minutes & 48 minutes
Probing deeply into the history and present-day reality of aboriginal identity, Club Native follows the stories of four women as they navigate the exclusionary attitudes that divide their home community of Kahnawake and many others like it across Canada. This is a candid and deeply moving look at the pain, confusion and frustration suffered by many First Nations people as they struggle for the most important right of all: the right to belong.
Project Vitals
Status: Completed 2008
Writer: Tracey Deer
Directors: Tracey Deer
Producers: Adam Symansky, Catherine Bainbridge, Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick, Ernest Webb
Kanien’kehá:ka: Living the Language
Mushkeg Media
2 X 48 minutes
Kanien’kehá:ka - Living the Language is a two part documentary about the personal, thought provoking and honest stories of the Mohawk language (Kanien’kehá:ka) immersion program in Akwesasne. It examines various aspects of what it takes to learn and maintain a language through immersion by addressing key concepts of tradition, traditional education and identity preservation. In the late 1970’s, the Mohawk community of Akwesasne began a dynamic language revitalization movement.
Project Vitals
Status: Completed 2008
Writer: Paul Richard, Tracey Deer
Directors: Paul Richard, Tracey Deer
Producers: Paul Richard, George Hargrave
One More River
Rezolution Pictures
2 X 48 minutes
One More River is a documentary about the decision making process of Quebec Crees to allow another mega-hydro project to be built on their land. This dramatic, behind-the-scenes look at the deal that split the Crees dispels romantic notions of how decisions are made in Aboriginal communities.
Project Vitals
Status: Completed 2004
Writers: Tracey Deer, Shawn Goldwater, John Hepworth, Neil Diamond, Ernest Webb
Directors: Tracey Deer, Neil Diamond
Producers: Catherine Bainbridge, Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick, Ernest Webb
Mohawk Girls
Rezolution Pictures & The National Film Board of Canada
52 minutes & 62 minutes
Shot over two years, and interspersed with home videos from Deer's own adolescence, Mohawk Girls provides a surprising inside look at modern Aboriginal youth culture. Deeply emotional yet unsentimental, it reveals the hope, despair, heartache and promise of growing up Native at the beginning of the 21st century.
Project Vitals
Status: Completed 2005
Writer: Tracey Deer
Directors: Tracey Deer
Producers: Adam Symansky, Joanne Robertson, Catherine Bainbridge, Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick, Ernest Webb
Completed Projects
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