BIOGRAPHY
MARIE CLEMENTS
WRITER I DIRECTOR I PRODUCER
A renowned writer, director, and producer whose decorated career has spanned film, TV, radio, and live performance. Marie’s current slate as director includes the NFB documentary feature Lay Down Your Heart (Audience Award at The Vancouver International Film Festival) and as a writer, director and producer, her feature film Bones of Crows which premiered at TIFF 2022, opened VIFF, and has screened at over 34 film festivals worldwide garnering over 60 nominations and 32 awards. The release of her mini-series by the same name on CBC/SRC and APTN was the highest watched dramatic premiere this fall and won Best International Series at Seriesfest in Denver. Her dramatic feature debut Red Snow received numerous awards including Most Popular Canadian Feature at VIFF, Best Canadian Feature at EIFF, Best Achievement in Film at LA Skins Fest in Los Angeles and Best Director at the American Indian Film Festival and Best Production, Best Director, and Best Writer at the Women in Film & TV Festival. Marie’s 2017 feature music documentary The Road Forward, produced by the NFB, premiered at Hot Docs, opened the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, closed the ImagineNATIVE Film Festival, and received multiple awards for production, directing, and screenwriting. Aside from her many film credits, nominations, and awards, Marie has been personally honoured with nominations from the Writer’s Guild and the Directors Guild of Canada. She is also a recipient of the WFF Women on Top Award, the WIFTV Spotlight Impact Award, the 2019 Telefilm Canada Birks Diamond Tribute the DGC Impact Award 2023 and the APTN filmmaker Award 2023 and has been nominated for two Governor General's Awards (Burning Vision/Copper Thunderbird).
AWARDS
2023 Best Director - American Indian Film Festival - Bones of Crows
2023 Best Film - American Indian Film Festival - Bones of Crows
2023 Best Original Screenplay - Red Nation International Film Festival - Bones of Crows
2023 Achievement in Directing - Red Nation International Film Festival - Bones of Crows
2023 Best Picture - Red Nation International Film Festival - Bones of Crows
2023 Best Drama - Breck Film Festival – Bones of Crows
2023 Best Screenwriting - Breck Film Festival – Bones of Crows
2023 Best Narrative Feature Film - South Dakota International Film Festival – Bones of Crows
2023 First Prize - Air Canada Matera Award - Matera International Film Festival – Bones of Crows
2023 APTN Award - Outstanding Achievement of the Year in Aborignal Cinema – Bones of Crows
2023 Audience Choice Award Best Narrative Feature - Cine Las Ameircas International Film Festival – Bones of Crows
2023 Best Feature Film - Big Apple Film Festival Spring Addition – Bones of Crows
2023 Best Direction Motion Picture – Leo Awards – Bones of Crows
2023 Best Screenwriting Motion Picture – Leo Awards – Bones of Crows
2023 Audience Award Best International Project – Series Fest US – Bones of Crows five-part series
2023 Nomination Best Original Screenplay – Canadian Screen Awards – Bones of Crows
2023 Nomination Achievement in Music - Original Song – Canadian Screen Awards – Bones of Crows
2023 Audience Choice Award Best Canadian Feature - Available Light Film Festival - Bones of Crows
2023 Cultural Current Award - Victoria International Film Festival - Bones of Crows
2023 Nomination WGC Award - Writers Guild of Canada - Bones of Crows
2022 Audience Award (Portraits) - Vancouver International Film Festival - Lay Down Your Heart
2022 Audience Choice Award Winner - Cinefest Sudbury - Bones of Crows
2022 Audience Choice Award Winner - Vancouver International Film Festival
2020 Best Director - Vancouver International Film Festival - Red Snow
2020 Best Screenplay - Vancouver International Film Festival - Red Snow
2020 Best Feature, Best Screenplay, Best Director - Vancouver International Film Festival - Red Snow
2019 Achievement in Film - LA Skins Festival - Red Snow
2019 Most Popular Feature - Vancouver International Film Festival - Red Snow
2019 DGC Director Nomination - Red Snow
2019 Best Director - American Indian Film Festival - Red Snow
2019 Best Canadian Feature - Edmonton International Film Festival - Red Snow
2019 Leo Award Nomination – Best Screenplay – Red Snow
2019 Leo Award Nomination – 9 Production Nominations – Red Snow
2018 Leo Award – Best Director – The Road Forward
2018 WITVF - Impact Award – Best Director – The Road Forward
2018 WFF - Women on Top Award
2017 Best Director - Native American Indian Film Festival – The Road Forward
2017 Best Film - Dreamspeaker’s Film Festival Award- The Road Forward
2017 Best Documentary - American Indian Film Festival - The Road Forward.
2017 Best BC Film Nomination. Vancouver Critic’s - The Road Forward.
2016 Audience Choice Award- Reel Reservations - Number 14
2015 Best Public Service Film - The American Indian Film Festival - Number 14
2013 Shaw Media Award - Pilgrims
2012 WIDC Feature Film Award- Red Snow
2012 Honorable Mention - Imaginative Film Festival - The Language of Love
2011 Carol Bolt Playwriting Nomination - Shortlisted
2010 Best Music Video - Southeastern Indian Film Festival - The Road Forward
2010 Best Music Video - American Indian Film Festival - The Road Forward
2010 Nomination Jessie Richardson Awards - Outstanding Original Script - The Edward Curtis Project
2008 Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama - Copper Thunderbird
2008 Nomination for Siminovitch Award - Outstanding Contribution to Canadian Theatre
2007 Nomination Best Screenplay - Leo Awards - Unnatural and Accidental
2006 Fleck Fellowship Award - Copper Thunderbird
2005 Nominated for The Webster Journalism Award - Hours of Water
2004 Awarded the Canada-Japan Literary Award - Burning Vision
2004 Shortlisted for the George Ryga Literary Award - Burning Vision
2004 Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama - Burning Vision
2002 Nomination for Siminovitch Award - Outstanding Contribution to Canadian Theatre
2001 Nomination Jessie Richardson Awards - Outstanding Original Play. Burning Vision