Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Born: January 1, 1986
in Cardston, Alberta, Canada
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, also known as Máijá Tailfeathers, is a Blackfoot and Sami actor, producer, filmmaker and curatorial assistant from the Kainai First Nation. She divides her time between Vancouver, Canada, the Blood Reserve and the Sapmi territory in Norway.

Movies for Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers...

Title: Little Bird
Character: Nurse
Released: May 26, 2023
Type: TV
As part of a racist government policy now known as the Sixties Scoop, Bezhig Little Bird is removed from her home in Long Pine Reserve in Saskatchewan and adopted into a Montréal Jewish family at the age of five, becoming Esther Rosenblum. Now in her 20s, Bezhig longs for the family she lost and is willing to sacrifice everything to find them.
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Title: Three Pines
Character: Isabelle Lacoste
Released: December 1, 2022
Type: TV
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team investigate a series of perplexing murders, in the seemingly idyllic village of Three Pines and uncover the buried secrets of its eccentric residents. In the process, Gamache is forced to confront buried secrets of his own. Based on the novels by Louise Penny.
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Stellar
Title: Stellar
Character: She
Released: September 11, 2022
Type: Movie
Set within the fluidity of time, touch, realism and reverie. Some may call this magic realism. Based within Indigenous knowledge and way of life, this story allows two people to heal, through touch, calm, love and patience in a fantastical space that leaves the audience dreamlike and yet it is dangerous and violent, there is love.
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Night Raiders
Title: Night Raiders
Character: Niska
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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Blood Quantum
Title: Blood Quantum
Character: Joss
Released: September 5, 2019
Type: Movie
The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.
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The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
Title: The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
Character: Áila
Released: February 10, 2019
Type: Movie
When Áila encounters a young Indigenous woman, barefoot and crying in the rain on the side of a busy street, she soon discovers that this young woman, Rosie, has just escaped a violent assault at the hands of her boyfriend. Áila decides to bring Rosie home with her and over the course of the evening, the two navigate the aftermath of this traumatic event.
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On the Farm
Title: On the Farm
Character: Nikki Taylor (as Maija Tailfeathers)
Released: July 26, 2016
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, a powerful study of the dysfunction and disorder in the police and criminal justice systems that allowed a wily psychopath to murder nearly 50 marginalised women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
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Love in Paradise
Title: Love in Paradise
Character: Jen
Released: January 2, 2016
Type: Movie
When a Western movie star is forced to spend a PR weekend at a dude ranch, his fans are horrified to learn he's actually a city slicker who's afraid of horses and has never been west of the Hudson River.
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The Embargo Project
Title: The Embargo Project
Character: (segment "Bihttos: Rebel")
Released: May 6, 2015
Type: Movie
Five Indigenous women filmmakers from across Canada challenge one another to make a film under a set of restrictions tailored to each filmmaker.
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Bihttoš
Title: Bihttoš
Released: October 26, 2014
Type: Movie
Bihttoš is an unconventional documentary that explores the complex relationship between a father and daughter. Through animation, re-enactments, and archival photos, writer/director Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers delves into the dissolution of her parents’ mythic love story and how it has colored her perception of love in her adult life.
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Rez Carz
Title: Rez Carz
Character: (voice)
Released: April 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Abandoned cars rest silently in fields for decades, still holding secret conversations within their bodies.
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A Red Girl's Reasoning
Title: A Red Girl's Reasoning
Character: Nelly/News reporter
Released: April 1, 2012
Type: Movie
After the justice system fails the survivor of a brutal, racially-driven sexual assault, she becomes a motorcycle-riding, ass-kicking vigilante who takes on the attackers of other women who've suffered the same fate.
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Bloodland
Title: Bloodland
Character: Earth Woman
Released: July 2, 2011
Type: Movie
A social statement on the irreversible and detrimental impact of gas and oil exploration on our planet and in particular the impact that hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking' will have on Kainaiwa, or the Blood Reserve in Canada. This film was shot with a completely Indigenous cast and crew.
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Another Cinderella Story
Title: Another Cinderella Story
Character: Amazonian Model Girl
Released: September 16, 2008
Type: Movie
A guy who danced with what could be the girl of his dreams at a costume ball only has one hint at her identity: the Zune she left behind as she rushed home in order to make her curfew. And with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in front of him, he sets out to find his masked beauty.
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Title: The Guard
Character: Young Woman (as Maija Tailfeathers)
Released: January 22, 2008
Type: TV
This one hour drama follows the search and rescue (SAR) team of the Canadian Coast Guard. The crew of the MLB Cape Pacific is lead by Captain Miro DaSilva and its First Mate Laura Nelson. The crew is rounded out by Coast guard rescue swimmers Andrew Vanderlee and Carly Greig.
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Title: Reaper
Character: Dog Walker (as Maija Tailfeathers)
Released: September 25, 2007
Type: TV
21 year-old slacker Sam Oliver learns that his parents sold his soul to the devil before he was born, and now Sam has to repay the debt by becoming the Devil's bounty hunter, retrieving souls that have somehow escaped from Hell.