Zoe Hopkinsshe/her

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.