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.
Mohawk Princess
Pictures
Kara's Story
A compelling portrait of a young Mohawk woman who had her first child at age fifteen, but was able to get an education and now leads a special program in her home community, Kahnawake, near Montreal, mentoring young people looking to build their career skills . As her older colleague says, "She's of that generation called: the one we've been waiting for".
The Olympian
Finding Rachelle
Mohawk Olympian and role-model Waneek Horn-Miller joins forces with Save the Children and appears at their We Day initiative in Toronto. We Day is a day-long celebration of young people leading local and global change. Waneek sets out to share her impassioned message of unity and hope to build a better future for her people.
CBC 8th Fire
7:21 minutes
Documentary
Project Vitals
Status: Completed 2011
Writer: Tracey Deer
Directors: Tracey Deer
Producers: Jennifer Clibbon
CBC 8th Fire
7:47 minutes
Documentary
CBC 8th Fire
8:06 minutes
Documentary
Profile of a young Aboriginal actress, Rachelle White Wind, who has struggled throughout her life with a confused sense of identity. Adopted into a French Canadian family as a child, she says that she always felt like an outsider. In this short film she tells the story of her reunion with her birth parents, her struggle to find a place for herself in the world, and her success in reclaiming her Aboriginal heritage and sense of pride.
Completed Projects
Escape Hatch
When Bailey discovers her boyfriend is also her cousin, she decides to look off the reserve for love. Misadventures await her as she searches for her “Mr. Right!” in the big city of Montreal.
The Sacrifice
In this dramatic fiction, Ruby and Garrett, recent graduates and life-long friends, discover in one fateful night that an insidious cycle exists in their Mohawk community because they have been raised to protect “their people”, but not themselves.
Mohawk Princess Pictures
10 minutes
Fiction
Project Vitals
Status: Development
Writer: Tracey Deer
Directors: Tracey Deer
Producers: Tracey Deer, Courtney Montour
Mohawk Princess Pictures
19 Minutes
Fiction
Project Vitals
Status: Post-production
Writer: Tracey Deer
Director: Tracey Deer
Producers: Tracey Deer
Cast: Kaniehtiio Horn, Lauren Jiles, Brittany LeBorgne, Heather White
Current Projects
Rezolution Pictures
CBC 8th Fire
8:02 minutes
Documentary
Profile of the inspiring founders of the Montreal-based television production house Rezolution Pictures, as well as the love story between Ernest Webb, a Cree from James Bay, and Catherine Bainbridge, of Irish heritage and from Toronto. In this short film they describe how their shared values brought them together, and how, over the years, they have built up a pioneering production house which has the aim of bringing Aboriginal stories and issues to a mainstream audience.
APTN
CBC 8th Fire
5:22 minutes
Documentary
The Aboriginal Peoples' Television Network burst onto the Canadian broadcasting scene in 1999, promising content for, about and by Aboriginal People. They have delivered on that promise and more, becoming a unifying voice and cultural institution for preserving, celebrating and sharing the diversity of the first inhabitants of this country.
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Crossing the Line
The National Film Board of Canada & APTN
3:15 minutes
3D Fiction
Crossing the Line turns the politics and conflicts of a playground sandbox into an allegory for the way nations treat one another, and the borders seem to do more harm than good.
Project Vitals
Status: Completed 2009
Writer: Tracey Deer
Director: Tracey Deer
Producers: Kat Baulu
Project Vitals
Status: Completed 2012
Writer: Tracey Deer
Directors: Tracey Deer
Producers: Jennifer Clibbon
Project Vitals
Status: Completed 2012
Writer: Tracey Deer
Directors: Tracey Deer
Producers: Jennifer Clibbon
Project Vitals
Status: Completed 2012
Writer: Tracey Deer
Directors: Tracey Deer
Producers: Jennifer Clibbon
Project Vitals
Status: Completed 2012
Writer: Tracey Deer
Directors: Tracey Deer
Producers: Carole Gagnon, Jennifer Clibbon
