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Deer Tracey
Mohawk filmmaker Tracey Deer is rapidly gaining a reputation as one of Canada's finest chroniclers of modern Aboriginal life. She co-directed the feature-lenght documentary One More River (Rezolution Pictures) about the 2003 agreement between the Cree and Quebec. In 2004, she made Mahawk Girls (Rezolution Pictures/NFB), a moving portrait of three teenage girls coming of age of her home reserve of Kahnawake, just outside of Montreal.
Tracey graduated in film studies at Darmouth College in 2000 where she shot, directed and edited three short films before receiving the 25th Anniversary Film and Television Award for overall achievement in films studies. Her films have been broacdcast and screened across Canada.
