Catherine Bainbridge
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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,[1] and the 2024 documentary Red Fever, about cultural appropriation and the Western world's pop culture fascination with the stereotypical imagery of Indigenous people.[2]
Filmography
[edit]| 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
[edit]- ^ 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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