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

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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

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  1. ^ Skenderis, Stephanie (18 February 2010). "A reel shame". CBC News. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  2. ^ 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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