A renowned writer, director, and producer whose decorated career has spanned film,
TV, radio and live performance, Marie Clements is a Métis/Dene filmmaker and the
founder of MCM, a production company specializing in the development, creation and
production of innovative works of media that ignite an Indigenous and intercultural
reality. Her multi-award-winning films have screened internationally at Cannes, TIFF,
MOMA, VIFF, the Whistler Film Festival, the American Indian Film Festival and the
imagineNATIVE Film Festival.
Marie’s current slate includes the NFB documentary feature Lay Down Your Heart and
the feature film and five-part, hour-long drama Bones of Crows for CBC, Radio-Canada,
and APTN. The feature film version of Bones of Crows was nominated for five Canadian
Screen Awards including Best Screenplay, Best Original Song, Best Makeup and Best
Visual Effects. The film was also nominated for a Writer’s Guild of Canada Award.
Marie’s dramatic feature debut, Red Snow, received numerous awards, including Most
Popular Canadian Feature at VIFF, Best Canadian Feature at EIFF, Best Achievement
in Film at LA Skins Fest in Los Angeles, Best Director at the American Indian Film
Festival and Best Production, Best Director, and Best Writer at the Women in Film & TV
Festival.
Marie’s 2017 feature music documentary The Road Forward, produced by the NFB,
premiered at Hot Docs, opened the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, closed the
imagineNATIVE Film Festival and received multiple awards for production, directing and
screenwriting. The Road Forward has screened at more than 300 venues in North
America.
Aside from her many film credits, nominations and awards, Marie has personally been
honoured with nominations from the Writers Guild and the Directors Guild of Canada.
She is a recipient of the WFF Women on Top Award and the WIFTV Spotlight Impact
Award, and is a 2019 Telefilm Canada Birks Diamond Tribute to Women in Film
recipient.
