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Catherine Bainbridge is a Canadian director, writer, and producer. She co-founded Rezolution Pictures, a Montreal-based film and television production company focusing primarily on Canadian Aboriginal productions, with director/writer/producer Ernest Webb in 2001.
Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana wrote and directed Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World to highlight the role of Indigenous artists in American music history.
With Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond she codirected the award-winning 2009 documentary Reel Injun, about the portrayal of Native Americans in movies, and the 2024 documentary Red Fever, about cultural appropriation and the Western world's pop culture fascination with the stereotypical imagery of Indigenous people.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Director | Producer | Writer | Awards and Nominations | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | One More River: The Deal That Split the Cree | Yes | Documentary | |||
| 2004 | Heavy Metal: A Mining Disaster in Northern Quebec | Yes | Yes | Documentary | ||
| 2007 | Mommy, Mommy | Yes | Yes | TV movie documentary | ||
| 2007 | Moose TV | Yes | TV series | |||
| 2008 | Club Native | Yes | Documentary | |||
| 2009 | The Last Explorer | Yes | Documentary | |||
| 2009 | Reel Injun | Yes | Yes | Yes | Won - Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Program, Canada Award (2009)
Nominated - Gemini Award - Donald Brittain Award (2010) |
Documentary |
| 2010 | Down the Mighty River | Yes | Yes | TV mini-series Documentary | ||
| 2010 | Independent Lens | Yes | Yes | Yes | TV series documentary | |
| 2011 | Working It Out Together | Yes | TV series documentary | |||
| 2012 | Smoke Traders | Yes | Yes | Yes | Documentary | |
| 2013 | Indians + Aliens I | Yes | TV series documentary | |||
| 2014 | Working It Out Together II | Yes | TV series documentary | |||
| 2014 | The Wolverine: The Fight of the James Bay Cree | Yes | Documentary Short | |||
| 2015 | The Oka Legacy | Yes | Documentary | |||
| 2016 | Butterhead's Guide to the Galaxy | Yes | TV mini-series | |||
| 2017 | Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World | Yes | Yes | Won - Biograflim Festival Audience Award for Biografilm Music (2017)
Won - Boulder International Film Festival Best Music Documentary (2017) Won - Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Audience Award, Best Documentary (2017) Won - Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize in Masterful Storytelling for World Cinema - Documentary (2017) Nominated - Sydney Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary (2017) Nominated - Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival Golden Alexander in International Competition (2017) Nominated - Cleveland International Film Festival Music Movies Competition (2017) |
Documentary | |
| 2010 - 2017 | Mohawk Girls | Yes | Yes | Nominated - Canadian Screen Award for Best Comedy Series (2010, 2016) | TV series | |
| 2024 | Red Fever | Yes | Yes | Codirected with Neil Diamond |
References
- Skenderis, Stephanie (18 February 2010). "A reel shame". CBC News. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
- Maimann, Kevin (15 June 2024). "Red Fever asks why the West is obsessed with Indigenous cultural stereotypes". Entertainment. CBC News. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
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