Gail Maurice

Gail Maurice


in Saskatchewan, Canada
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.

Movies for Gail Maurice...

Bones of Crows
Title: Bones of Crows
Character: Older Taylor Whallach
Released: June 2, 2023
Type: Movie
Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.
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Rosie
Title: Rosie
Released: September 9, 2022
Type: Movie
When Rosie's Mom dies she needs somewhere to live. The only relative to be found is Fred (Frédérique) - tough, street-smart, and currently working in a sex shop, though not for long. Her two best friends - who refuse to be restricted by gender - are Flo and Mo; they are loyal to the core and Fred's own chosen family. When the adult store goes up in flames the colourful foursome must do what they have to to survive. A quirky family of fringe dwellers is born!
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Night Raiders
Title: Night Raiders
Character: Ida
Released: October 8, 2021
Type: Movie
The year is 2043. A military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in post-war North America. Children are property of the State. A desperate Cree woman joins an underground band of vigilantes to infiltrate a State children’s academy and get her daughter back. Night Raiders is a female-driven dystopian drama about resilience, courage and love.
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Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics
Title: Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics
Released: September 11, 2021
Type: Movie
Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics dives deeply into the innate contrast between the Seven Deadly Sins (Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Pride and Envy) and the Seven Sacred Teachings (Love, Respect, Wisdom, Courage, Truth, Honesty and Humility), as embodied in the life of a precocious Métis baby. Brought to life by Terril Calder’s darkly beautiful stop-motion animation, her inner turmoil of abuse is laid bare with unflinching honesty. Convinced she’s soiled and destined for Hell, Baby Girl receives teachings that fill her with strength and pride, and affirm a path towards healing. Calder’s tour-de-force unearths a hauntingly familiar yet hopeful world that illuminates the bias of colonial systems.
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Québexit
Title: Québexit
Character: Meetos
Released: September 22, 2020
Type: Movie
Québexit is a multi-lingual (English, French, Cree) ensemble political comedy: when a transnational pipeline leads to a successful third Québec sovereignty referendum, a small road at the Québec-New Brunswick border becomes a lighting rod of conflict between the new Québec military, the Canadian Armed Forces and two indigenous women who traverse the border frequently.
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Inconvenient Indian
Title: Inconvenient Indian
Released: September 10, 2020
Type: Movie
Based on the bestselling book, this urgent feature documentary from celebrated director Michelle Latimer will take viewers on a journey into the mind of one of the world’s foremost Indigenous intellectuals, and one of our greatest storytellers: Thomas King.
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The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw
Title: The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw
Character: Annabelle Bearclaw
Released: October 17, 2019
Type: Movie
An Indigenous woman reluctantly returns to her isolated reserve to help her father care for her bitter mother.
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Camera Test
Title: Camera Test
Released: May 1, 2019
Type: Movie
What gets lost when female voices are stymied during the creative process? Pairing intimate interviews with absurdist re-enactments, Joyce Wong crafts a tartly subversive look at patriarchy and racism in the film industry.
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Falls Around Her
Title: Falls Around Her
Character: Inez
Released: September 8, 2018
Type: Movie
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 left behind.
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Four Faces of the Moon
Title: Four Faces of the Moon
Character: Narrator (Michif/Cree)
Released: October 20, 2016
Type: Movie
Follow the animated journey of an Indigenous photographer as she travels through time. The oral and written history of her family reveals the story — we witness the impact and legacy of the railways, the slaughter of the buffalo and colonial land policies.
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Title: Outlander
Character: Tsotehweh
Released: August 9, 2014
Type: TV
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
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Wakening
Title: Wakening
Released: May 31, 2014
Type: Movie
In the near future, the environment has been destroyed and society suffocates under a brutal military occupation. A lone Cree wanderer Wesakechak searches an urban war zone to find the ancient and dangerous Weetigo to help fight against the occupiers.
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Boxed In
Title: Boxed In
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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 - Choose One.
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Finn's Girl
Title: Finn's Girl
Character: Nancy
Released: June 4, 2007
Type: Movie
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 protested by increasingly violent "pro-lifer's".
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Johnny Greyeyes
Title: Johnny Greyeyes
Character: Johnny Greyeyes
Released: August 21, 2000
Type: Movie
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 convicted by the court to a long term in local prison. Where she finds the woman, another inmate, who became for her and her family and her first love.
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Big Bear
Title: Big Bear
Character: Nowakich
Released: February 9, 1998
Type: Movie
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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Giant Mine
Title: Giant Mine
Character: Technician
Released: December 8, 1996
Type: Movie
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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Wind River: Rising
Title: Wind River: Rising
Character: Annie Hanson
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Terror has escalated on the Wind River reservation as a series of ritualistic murders remain unsolved. The FBI therefore enlists the aid of Hanson, a newly minted tracker for the U.S. Fish & Game, who becomes embroiled in a desperate and dangerous fight between the authorities, a vigilante and the Reservation he calls home.