翠西·迪尔 Tracey Deer

Mohawk filmmaker Tracey Deer led the acclaimed dramedy Mohawk Girls, produced by Rezolution Pictures, to five award-winning seasons as its co-creator, director, and co-showrunner.

She has worked with CBC, the National Film Board (NFB), and numerous independent production companies in both documentary and fiction. She was nominated four years in a row for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction in a Comedy Series for Mohawk Girls and has been honored at TIFF with the Birks Diamond Tribute Award.

Tracey recently completed her debut feature Beans, a coming-of-age story about a young Mohawk girl's experiences during the Oka Crisis, a 1990 land dispute between the Mohawk and their Francophone neighbors in Quebec. It has been selected for the Discovery, TIFF Next Wave Section at TIFF 2020. She began production right after returning from LA, where she was a writing co-EP on season 3 of the Netflix/CBC series Anne with an E. Her projects in development include Inner City Girl, a feature about Aboriginal gang life, with Original Pictures.

Tracey strongly believes in giving back to the community. She chairs the Board of Directors of Women in View, a non-profit that promotes greater diversity and balance in Canadian media, from the standpoint of employment equity, creative authority and gender representation. She has mentored emerging talent as leader of the Director Training Program at the imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival. She has also been a guest mentor at the National Screen Institute (NSI) New Indigenous Voices Program and a directing mentor for NSI's new IndigiDocs training course.