Kwena Bellemare-Boivin is a Canadian film actress, who garnered a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the

5th Canadian Screen Awards The 5th annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 12, 2017, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2016. Nominations were announced on January 17, 2017. Awards in many of the technical categor ...

for her performance in ''

Before the Streets ''Before the Streets'' (french: Avant les rues) is a 2016 Canadian drama film directed by Chloé Leriche. Set among the Atikamekw people of northern Quebec, the film stars Rykko Bellemare as Shawnouk, a man undertaking the process of restorat ...

(Avant les rues)''. A member of the

Atikamekw The Atikamekw are the Indigenous inhabitants of the subnational country or territory they call ('Our Land'), in the upper Saint-Maurice River valley of Quebec (about north of Montreal), Canada. Their current population is around 8,000. One o ...

nation from

Wemotaci Wemotaci (designated as Weymontachie 23 until 1997) is a First Nations reserve on the north shore of the Saint-Maurice River at the mouth of the Manouane River in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada. Together with the Obedjiwan and the Coucou ...

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, she is the sister of

Rykko Bellemare Rykko Bellemare (born 1991) is a Native Canadian film actor, best known for his lead role as Shawnouk in ''Before the Streets (Avant les rues)''. He won the Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year, its award for debut performances, at the 19th Quebe ...

, who played the film's lead role. She also sings and dances with the Atikamekw traditional music group Northern Voice, and has appeared in the APTN television series ''Brigade des Nations'' and ''Le rythme''.

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