Marie Clements

Individual

Roles

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer

Biography

Marie Clements is a renowned writer, director, and producer whose decorated career has spanned film, TV, radio, and live performance. Marie’s current slate as director includes the NFB documentary feature Lay Down Your Heart (Audience Award at The Vancouver International Film Festival) and as a writer, director, and producer, her feature film Bones of Crows, which premiered at TIFF 2022, opened VIFF, and has screened at over 34 film festivals worldwide, garnering over 60 nominations and 32 awards. The release of her mini-series by the same name on CBC/SRC and APTN was the highest watched dramatic premiere this fall and won Best International Series at Seriesfest in Denver. Her dramatic feature debut Red Snow received numerous awards including Most Popular Canadian Feature at VIFF, Best Canadian Feature at EIFF, Best Achievement in Film at LA Skins Fest in Los Angeles and Best Director at the American Indian Film Festival and Best Production, Best Director, and Best Writer at the Women in Film and TV Festival. Marie’s 2017 feature music documentary The Road Forward, produced by the NFB, premiered at Hot Docs, opened the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, closed the ImagineNATIVE Film Festival, and received multiple awards for production, directing, and screenwriting. Aside from her many film credits, nominations, and awards, Marie has been personally honoured with nominations from the Writer’s Guild and the Directors Guild of Canada. She is also a recipient of the WFF Women on Top Award, the WIFTV Spotlight Impact Award, the 2019 Telefilm Canada Birks Diamond Tribute the DGC Impact Award 2023 and the APTN filmmaker Award 2023 and has been nominated for two Governor General's Awards (Burning Vision/Copper Thunderbird).

MCM 2 Productions, 2024

Website

https://www.mcm2.ca/

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive (Artist)

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