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Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, also known as Maija Tailfeathers, is a writer, director, producer and actor. She is both Blackfoot from the Kainai First Nation as well as Sámi from Norway. She is a graduate of Vancouver Film School's Acting Program and also has a bachelor's degree from the University of British Columbia with a Major in First Nations Studies and a Minor in Women's and Gender Studies.Elle-Máijá was named the 2018 Sundance Film Institute's Merata Mita Film Fellow and is an alumni of the Berlinale Talent Lab, the International Sámi Film Institute's Indigenous Film Fellowship, and the Hot Docs Doc Accelerator Lab. She is also a member of the Embargo Collective II. She was presented with the 2014 Vancouver Mayor's Arts Award as an emerging artist in film and new media and a Vancouver Women in Film Kodak Image Award for her work on A Red Girl's Reasoning. Her short documentary Bihttos was included in the TIFF Top Ten Canadian Shorts and also won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at the Seattle International Film Festival. She is directing a feature-length documentary (with the support of the National Film Board of Canada and the Hot Docs Cross Currents Fund) on her community's brave response to the ongoing opiate-crisis. She co-wrote and co-directed the narrative feature, The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, with Kathleen Hepburn which premiered at the 2019 Berlinale in the Generation Program.She won the Best Lead Actress in a Dramatic Program or Limited Series Canadian Screen Award as well as the VWIFF UBCP/ACTRA award for her role in On the Farm (aka Unclaimed). She was also nominated for Leo Awards for her performances in Not Indian Enough and On the Farm (Unclaimed), and nominated for American Indian Motion Picture Awards for her roles in White Indians Walking and On the Farm (aka Unclaimed). Her acting credits include roles in the upcoming features Blood Quantum, The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, and On the Farm, Not Indian Enough, White Indians Walking, The Guard, The Reaper, Shattered, and Another Cinderella Story. She has also appeared on stage in Presentation House Theater's Where the River Meets the Sea and Beaivvás Sámi National Theater's Silbajávri. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Elle-Maija Tailfeathers

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