Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Born 1986

Biography

She is a writer, director, producer and actor. She is a member of the Kainai First Nation (Blackfoot Confederacy) as well as Sámi from Norway. She cowrote and co-directed the film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open with Kathleen Hepburn, which premiered at the Berlinale in 2019 and received the Toronto Film Critics Association for Best Canadian Film. It was also nominated for six Canadian Screen Awards; winning for Best Direction and Best Original Screenplay. Tailfeathers’ film Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy won the 2022 Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Feature. She directed three episodes of the limited series Little Bird.

El Festival Internacional de Cine de Los Cabos

Actress

Movies
2022

Stellar

2021

Night Raiders

2019

Blood Quantum

 

The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open

2016

Love in Paradise (TV movie)

 

On the Farm (TV movie)

2015

The Embargo Project

Series
2008

Reaper

 

Unseen (S01E12)

Documentaries
2014

Rebel

Screenwriter

Director

Guest

Producer