Kelly Fyffe-Marshall is a

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filmmaker best known for her 2020 two-part short film '' Black Bodies'', which won the Changemaker Award at the

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, and won the

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for Best Live Action Short Drama at the

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in 2021.

Career

She has also directed the short films ''Reason Enough'' (2016), ''Haven'' (2018), ''Black White Blue'' (2018) and ''Trap City'' (2020), and has worked as an assistant director and production assistant on other film and television projects. She is also the co-founder of the production company Sunflower Studios, with Sasha Leigh Henry, Tamar Bird, and Iva Golubovic. Fyffe-Marshall won the

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at the 2020 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards. In May 2022, Fyffe-Marshall was selected by

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as the recipient of the "pay-it-forward" grant from his Clyde Gilmour Award package, and received $50,000 in post-production services on her feature film '' When Morning Comes'', which premiered in the Discovery program at the

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.Jeremy Kay
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'', August 4, 2022.

Personal life

Fyffe-Marshall was born in

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, and currently resides in

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Filmography

* ''Friends with Benefits'' (2016) –

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* ''Reason Enough'' (2016) – short film * ''Haven'' (2018) – short film * ''Black White Blue'' (2018) – short film * ''Trap City'' (2020) ''–'' short film * ''Black Bodies'' (2020) – short film * '' When Morning Comes'' (2022) – feature film * ''

Bria Mack Gets a Life ''Bria Mack Gets a Life'' is a Canadian television comedy series that premiered on Crave on October 13, 2023. The series stars Malaika Hennie-Hamadi as Bria "Mack" McFarlane, a young Black Canadian woman who has recently graduated from universit ...

'' (2023) - TV series

References

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