Gail Maurice

Gail Maurice

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Place of Birth: Saskatchewan, Canada

Biography: Gail Maurice is a fluent Cree/Michif speaking actor and an award-winning filmmaker. She created her own company Assini Productions to tell stories that highlight strong Indigenous female leads. She translates and speaks her language whenever she can on the big and little screen. She translated and played the role of Ida, in Night Raiders. She translated/co-wrote and played the role of Meetos, in Quebexit and won Best Screenplay at the Whistler Film Festival 2020.

Movies

Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics
Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics

Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics dives deeply into the innate contrast between the Seven Deadly ...

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Finn's Girl
Finn's Girl

Dr. Finn Jeffries plays a new stepmother to her deceased lover's daughter Zelly. She also took over ...

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Bones of Crows
Bones of Crows

Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue h...

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Wind River: Rising
Wind River: Rising

Terror has escalated on the Wind River reservation as a series of ritualistic murders remain unsolve...

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Boxed In
Boxed In

In this short film, a young woman of mixed ancestry struggles with an Equal Opportunity Form that re...

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Johnny Greyeyes
Johnny Greyeyes

Johnny GreyEyes is a girl from an injun family. Since her childhood she was abused by her father and...

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Rosie
Rosie

An orphaned Indigenous girl is forced to live with her reluctant, street-smart, francophone auntie a...

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Wakening
Wakening

In the near future, the environment has been destroyed and society suffocates under a brutal militar...

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Aberdeen
Aberdeen

An idyllic childhood with her mooshum and kookum, or grandparents, in her community of Peguis First ...

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Four Faces of the Moon
Four Faces of the Moon

Follow the animated journey of an Indigenous photographer as she travels through time. The oral and ...

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Falls Around Her
Falls Around Her

A world-famous Anishinaabe musician returns to the reserve to rest and recharge — only to discover t...

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Big Bear
Big Bear

The story of Big Bear, the real life Cree chief who campaigned for his people and their land against...

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Camera Test
Camera Test

What gets lost when female voices are stymied during the creative process? Pairing intimate intervie...

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Inconvenient Indian
Inconvenient Indian

Based on the bestselling book, this urgent feature documentary from celebrated director Michelle Lat...

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Québexit
Québexit

Québexit is a multi-lingual (English, French, Cree) ensemble political comedy: when a transnational ...

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Night Raiders
Night Raiders

The year is 2043. A military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in post-war North America. C...

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Giant Mine
Giant Mine

CBC's dramatic account of the tragedy of Yellowknife's Giant Mine, in which 9 miners were killed dur...

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The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw
The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw

As MITZI BEARCLAW turns 25 years-old, she is faced with a tragic decision – stay in the big city to ...

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Blood Lines
Blood Lines

Whilst embarking on a lesbian relationship with the new girl in town, a Métis woman’s life is rocked...

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City of Dreams
City of Dreams

"City of Dreams" is the story of Marcel "Bambi" Commanda, an Ojibway man from Rama First Nation. Mar...

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