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Zoe Hopkinsshe/her
Heiltsuk, MohawkCanada
Zoe Hopkins is a Heiltsuk and Mohawk woman, born in her mother’s community of Bella Bella, a fishing village on the coast of BC. She is now raising her son in her father’s community of Six Nations, Ontario, where she learned to speak and teach Kanyen’kéha (the Mohawk language.)
Zoe has made a feature film in each of her home communities. Kayak to Klemtu is a love letter to her coastal roots, and her second feature Run Woman Run was shot in Six Nations. Both had successful theatrical releases in Canada and won many awards on the festival circuit, including Audience Awards at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, the largest Indigenous film festival in the world.
From features to TV, Zoe works in both comedy and drama as both a writer and director. She is a two-time DGC Nominee, and a WGC Award Winning writer for her finale episode of Little Bird. At the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards, Little Bird swept, and took home 13 awards, making Zoe a Canadian Screen Award Winner for Best Dramatic Series, the most awarded series in Canadian Screen Award history.
Other credits include Trickster and Run the Burbs, as well as upcoming half hour comedies Don’t Even and North of North. She is a member of the Writer’s Guild of Canada, the Director’s Guild of Canada, and loves making her sets a relaxed and fun space to work.
Official Selection
Feature Films
Festival Year2021
Run Woman Run
Director, Writer
2017
Kayak to Klemtu
Director, Writer
Short Films
Festival Year2025
Skyworld
Director, Writer
Retrospective screening of the Embargo Collective II program for imagineNATIVE’s 25th anniversary Festival.
2025
Tsi tkahéhtayen (The Garden)
Director, Writer
Retrospective screening of the Embargo Collective I program for imagineNATIVE’s 25th anniversary Festival.
2016
Skoha
Director, Writer
Part of The NATIVE slam..
2016
Star Wars - Trash Compactor Scene
Director, Writer
2014
Skyworld
Director, Writer
Closing Night Screening.
2013
Mohawk Midnight Runners
Director, Writer
Part of Iron Men: Shorts Program.
2012
Ghost House
Director, Writer
2010
Button Blanket
Director, Writer
Part of Kaleidoscope: Shorts Program III.
2009
Prayer for a Good Day
Director, Writer
2 minute excerpt, A Decade in Retrospect: Curated by Dana Claxton. Opening Night Screening.
2009
Tsi tkahéhtayen (The Garden)
Director, Writer
Part of The Embargo Collective.
2006
One-eyed Dogs Are Free
Director, Writer
Part of Candle in the Dark: Shorts Program III.
2005
The Evolution Of A Story
Curator
A selection of four short films curated through Vtape's Curatorial Incubator Program.
2004
Prayer For A Good Day
Director
Opening Night Screening
Video
Festival Year2016
Goldilocks Tahnon Ohkwari (Goldilocks and the Three Bears)
Artist
Part of a video installation.
2011
Last Song
Director, Writer
Part of The Beat: Music Video Program.
Audio
Festival Year2014
Trove: Unearthing the Embargo Collective II
Artist
Contributed the sound piece, Karenniyohston - Old Songs Made Good.
2012
Karenniyohston - Old Songs Made Good
Artist
In collaboration with her father Brian Maracle for the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival's second annual sound art commission.
Digital + Interactive
Festival Year2017
Impossible to Contain
Director, Writer
Year-Round Programming
2025
Artist Spotlight Directory Retrospective Streaming | Run Woman Run
Director, Writer
A month-long free online streaming presentation, celebrating the launch of the Artist Spotlight Directory.
2018
Tour Program | Kayak to Klemtu
Director, Writer
2016
Tour Program | The Embargo Collective
Co-Director
Events
2021
Run Woman Run Q & A
Panelist
Livestream event.
2020
Directors’ Series: Directing Actors/Working with Directors
Panelist
Livestream event.
2019
Worn Trails/New Trails: Footsteps
Panelist
Institute Participation
2022
From Film to TV
Industry Days Speaker
2018
European Film Market | Kayak to Klemtu
Director, Writer
2017
Industry Days | Protocols in Process and Practice
Panelist