Gail Mauriceshe/her

Gail is an award-winning filmmaker and owner of Assini Productions Inc. She is a director, actor, writer, producer and a proud fluent speaking member of her Métis community, Beauval, Saskatchewan. Her debut feature film, Rosie, was one of TIFF’s Top Ten films of 2022, it won the Audience Choice Feature Film Award at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, the Best Feature Narrative at the Festival International du Cinéma Francophone en Acadie, and was named the Best Feature Film at the Available Light Film Festival (Yukon Film Society), among other accolades.

Gail is currently in post-production on her second feature film, Blood Lines and she is also developing a comedy series, Rez in the City, produced through her company, Assini Productions. Gail always tells stories with strong female Indigenous leads.

Gail’s nine award-winning short films, which she wrote, produced, and directed have screened at Sundance, imagineNATIVE, the Smithsonian, enRoute, the CBC, APTN, and many more, with one such film receiving a recent win for Best Children’s Film from UNICEF.

Gail is a member of the Director’s Guild of Canada and she was nominated for the DGC’s prestigious Jean-Marc Vallée Discovery Award. She’s an alumnus of the prestigious Women in the Director’s Chair program, a recipient of the Hnatyshyn Indigenous Award of Excellence. She was selected for a Chalmers Arts Fellowship, the 2020 Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices Initiative, and as part of Berlinale’s 2024 European Film Market (EFM) Toolbox Programme.

As an actor, Gail is a two-time Canadian Screen Award-nominee for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in Trickster and Night Raiders. Gail was named one of Variety’s 10 Canadians to Watch.