Gail Maurice is a Canadian actress, writer, and producer."Canadian aboriginal filmmaker en route to Sundance with Smudge". ''

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'', January 20, 2006. She is most noted for her performances as the title character in the film ''

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'', Dorothy Pine in the television series '' Cardinal'', and Georgina in the television series ''

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''.

Career

Maurice is the head of Assini Productions, a film studio whose films have included ''Smudge'' (2006), ''Kihtwam misawac na-wapamitin'' (2011), ''Assini'' (2015) and ''Rosie'' (2018). She was a co-writer and star of Joshua Demers's 2020 film '' Québexit''.Ben Leeson
"Québexit, an ensemble comedy at intersection of language and culture, to premiere at Cinefest"
'' Sudbury Star'', September 21, 2020. At the 2020

Whistler Film Festival The Whistler Film Festival (WFF) is an annual film festival held in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Established in 2001, the festival is held the first weekend of December and includes juried competitive sections, the Borsos Awards, and the Pand ...

, Maurice, Demers and Xavier Yuvens won the

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award for Best Screenplay in a Canadian Film. At the

9th Canadian Screen Awards The 9th annual Canadian Screen Awards were held in the week of May 17 to 20, 2021, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2020.Barry Hertz, "How one Canadian arts institution is rebuilding amid the p ...

in 2021, she received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Program or Series for her performance in ''Trickster''. At the

10th Canadian Screen Awards The 10th Canadian Screen Awards were held on April 10, 2022, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television and digital media production in 2021.Etan Vlessing"Maitreyi Ramakrishnan to Receive Canadian Screen Awards Special Honor" ''The Hollyw ...

in 2022, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Film, for the film '' Night Raiders''. '' Rosie'', Maurice's debut feature film as a director and an expansion of her 2018 short film of the same name, premiered in the Discovery program at the

2022 Toronto International Film Festival The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, the 47th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series, is scheduled to be held from September 8 to 18, 2022. Festival organizers have indicated that the 2022 festival will be staged primar ...

Personal life

Maurice is in a relationship with Mélanie Bray, one of the stars of ''Rosie''.David Friend
"‘Rosie’ director Gail Maurice on the difficult road to making a queer Indigenous film"
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'', October 11, 2022.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

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