Loretta Todd
Directing
A filmmaker and artist of Cree/Métis and European ancestry, Loretta Todd was one of the first Indigenous women to pursue film studies at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University. Employing a distinctive approach to documentary cinema, she has directed award-winning films such as The Learning Path (1991), Hands of History (1994), Forgotten Warriors (1997) and The People Go On (2003). She has also created video installations for Vancouver's Museum of Anthropology and other gallery venues. The recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship and a former participant in the Sundance Institute’s Scriptwriters Lab, Todd has received lifetime achievement awards from imagineNATIVE and the Taos Talking Pictures Festival.
Known for
Behind the camera7
- 2020Monkey Beach Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 2004Two Worlds Colliding Consulting Producer
- 2003Kainayssini Imanistaisiwa: The People Go On Director, Writer
- 1997Forgotten Warriors Director, Writer
- 1994Self Government: Talk About It Executive Producer
- 1994Hands of History Researcher, Director
- 1991The Learning Path Director