Tracey Deer

Independent filmmaker Tracey Deer (Mohawk) divides her time between Montreal, Quebec and Kahnawake, her home reserve. Deer and Neil Diamond (Cree) co-directed the documentary One More River: The Deal That Split the Cree at the production company Rezolution Pictures. One More River won the Best Documentary Award at the 2005 Rendez-vous du cinema québécois. Deer went on to direct a documentary, Mohawk Girls, which follows the coming-of-age of four girls at Kahnawake. It won the Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award at the 2005 ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. One More River and MOHAWK GIRLS have been broadcast throughout Canada on APTN, Aborginal People's Television Network. Deer is currently directing a feature documentary about modern Native identity and the membership debate, which is being co-produced by Rezolution Pictures and the National Film Board of Canada. She is also working with Paul Rickard (Cree) on a two-part documentary on Mohawk immersion schools. Deer has formed the company, Mohawk Princess Productions, to independently produce her own short fictions. She received a BA in film studies, with an emphasis on documentary production from Dartmouth College. (7/07)

Mohawk Girls
A film by Tracey Deer, 2005, 53 min., Color
In MOHAWK GIRLS, filmmaker Tracey Deer intimately captures the lives of three exuberant and insightful Mohawk teenagers as they face their future. Lik...