Gail Maurice
Gail Maurice is a fluent Cree/Michif speaking actor and an award-winning filmmaker. She created her own company Assini Productions to tell stories that highlight strong Indigenous female leads. She translates and speaks her language whenever she can on the big and little screen.
She translated and played the role of Ida, in Night Raiders. She translated/co-wrote and played the role of Meetos, in Quebexit and won Best Screenplay at the Whistler Film Festival 2020.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6495 |
| Birthday | |
| Place of Birth | Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Also Known As |
2021
Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics
6.5/3
Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics dives deeply into the innate contrast between the Seven Deadly Sins (Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Pride a...
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Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics
2007
Finn's Girl
4.773/11
Dr. Finn Jeffries plays a new stepmother to her deceased lover's daughter Zelly. She also took over her lover's abortion clinic that is being proteste...
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Finn's Girl
2023
Bones of Crows
6.821/14
Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of syst...
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Bones of Crows
Wind River: Rising
0/0
As a wave of murders remains unsolved, the FBI enlists the help of Hanson, who finds himself embroiled in a desperate and dangerous fight between the...
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Wind River: Rising
2009
Boxed In
0/0
In this short film, a young woman of mixed ancestry struggles with an Equal Opportunity Form that requires her to respond to the dilemma: Ethnicity -...
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Boxed In
2000
Johnny Greyeyes
2.875/4
Johnny GreyEyes is a girl from an injun family. Since her childhood she was abused by her father and one day she killed him. She was arrested and conv...
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Johnny Greyeyes
2022
Rosie
1/2
An orphaned Indigenous girl is forced to live with her reluctant, street-smart, francophone auntie and her two best friends in 80's Montreal.
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Rosie
2014
Wakening
6/1
In the near future, the environment has been destroyed and society suffocates under a brutal military occupation. A lone Cree wanderer Wesakechak sear...
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Wakening
2024
Aberdeen
8.3/3
An idyllic childhood with her mooshum and kookum, or grandparents, in her community of Peguis First Nation dissipates as Aberdeen’s hard-partying and...
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Aberdeen
2016
Four Faces of the Moon
8/1
Follow the animated journey of an Indigenous photographer as she travels through time. The oral and written history of her family reveals the story —...
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Four Faces of the Moon
2018
Falls Around Her
7.5/2
A world-famous Anishinaabe musician returns to the reserve to rest and recharge — only to discover that fame (and the outside world) are not easily le...
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Falls Around Her
1998
Big Bear
9/1
The story of Big Bear, the real life Cree chief who campaigned for his people and their land against the Canadian government in the 1870s and 1880s.
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Big Bear
2019
Camera Test
6.3/3
What gets lost when female voices are stymied during the creative process? Pairing intimate interviews with absurdist re-enactments, Joyce Wong crafts...
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Camera Test
2020
Inconvenient Indian
1/1
Based on the bestselling book, this urgent feature documentary from celebrated director Michelle Latimer will take viewers on a journey into the mind...
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Inconvenient Indian
2020
Québexit
6/4
Québexit is a multi-lingual (English, French, Cree) ensemble political comedy: when a transnational pipeline leads to a successful third Québec sovere...
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Québexit
2021
Night Raiders
4.9/53
The year is 2043. A military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in post-war North America. Children are property of the State. A desperate Cre...
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Night Raiders
1996
Giant Mine
9/1
CBC's dramatic account of the tragedy of Yellowknife's Giant Mine, in which 9 miners were killed during a bitter labour dispute.
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Giant Mine
2019
The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw
4/2
As MITZI BEARCLAW turns 25 years-old, she is faced with a tragic decision – stay in the big city to pursue her dream of designing hats or leave her bo...
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The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw
2026
Blood Lines
0/0
Whilst embarking on a lesbian relationship with the new girl in town, a Métis woman’s life is rocked to the core when her estranged mother returns.
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Blood Lines
1995
City of Dreams
7/1
"City of Dreams" is the story of Marcel "Bambi" Commanda, an Ojibway man from Rama First Nation. Marcel sits in a prison cell, reciting a passage from...
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City of Dreams
2026
Nika & Madison
0/0
Fearing they won't be believed, two young Indigenous women go on the run after one's defense of the other results in a violent attack against a police...
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