A pioneer in Manitoba’s film industry, she is an award-winning filmmaker; a writer, director and producer of immense talent. One of Winnipeg Film Group’s earliest members, her first short film, The Performer (1980), received the Special Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Frequently highlighting the works of acclaimed Canadian writers such as Carol Shields and Margaret Atwood, she is also one of the first filmmakers to bring stories of First Nations and Métis people to the screen. She has garnered Directors’ Guild of Canada and Blizzard awards for best direction; her television movie, Cowboys and Indians: The J.J. Harper Story (2003), received the American Indian Film Festival Best Film Award; and her television mini-series, The Capture of the Green River Killer (2008), was one of Lifetime Network’s highest-rated series. A former director mentor for the National Screen Institute’s Drama Prize Winners, she continues to mentor new filmmakers.
