Wendy Motion Brathwaite is a Canadian musician, writer and activist from

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. She is most noted as cowriter with

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of the screenplay for the 2020 film ''

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'', for which they won the

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for

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at the

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in 2021. She also wrote the short films ''A Man's Story'' (2016) and ''Theodore'' (2020), and has worked as a writer and story editor on the television series '' Coroner''. In 2022, she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Writing in a Drama Series at the

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for the ''Coroner'' episode "Eyes Up", and in 2023 she received a nomination for Best Writing in a Web Program or Series at the

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for "The One Who Dies First", an episode of the comedy web series '' Revenge of the Black Best Friend''. She has performed as a hip hop artist and spoken word poet under the stage name Motion, and released the CD ''Motion in Poetry: The Audio Xperience''.Johanna Brand
"Motion in Poetry"
'' ETFO Voice'', Winter 2006. She has also published the poetry collections ''Motion in Poetry'' and ''40 Dayz'', and has written theatrical plays including ''Oraltorio: A Theatrical Mixtape'', ''4our Woman'', ''Aneemah’s Spot'', ''Loveleigh’s Logue'', ''Nightmare Dream'' and '' Rebirth of the Afronauts: A Black Space Odyssey''. Amanda Parris
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, March 6, 2020.

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