Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Director / Screenwriter

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The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open

Under Your Always Light

Mavericks Season 2. Episode: Dr. Esther Tailfeathers

c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city

Skills

  • Documentary
  • Drama
  • Narrative

Format

  • Film
  • TV

Links

  • TIFF 2019: Triple threat Elle-Maija Tailfeathers is fighting for so many more voices than herself
  • TIFF 2019: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers takes on the foster-care system
  • Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ Rebel Love Story

Location

  • Canada
  • Norway

Biography

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers is a writer, director, producer and actor. She is a member of the Kainai First Nation (Blood Tribe, Blackfoot Confederacy) as well as Sámi from Norway. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor’s Degree in First Nations Studies and a Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies. She is also an alumni of Vancouver Film School’s Full-time Acting Program.

She began her filmmaking career in 2011 with the experimental short, Bloodland. Since then, she has gone on to explore narrative fiction, documentary, mockumentary, music video, and archival video remix....