Tracey Penelope Tekahentakwa Deer was born on February 28,1978 and is a First Nations screenwriter, film director and newspaper publisher based in Kahnawake, Quebec.
15 Facts About Tracey Deer
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Tracey Deer has written and directed several award-winning documentaries for Rezolution Pictures, an Aboriginal-run film and television production company.
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Tracey Deer founded her own production company for independent short work.
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Tracey Deer was born in 1978 and grew up in a large, close-knit Mohawk family in Kahnawake, a reserve in Quebec, Canada that is south of the St Lawrence River, across from Montreal.
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Tracey Deer is a member of the Bear Clan and attended local schools: Karonhianhnonha School Elementary and Queen of Angels Academy.
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Tracey Deer moved to the United States for college, attending Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
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Tracey Deer co-directed One More River: The Deal that Split the Cree.
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Tracey Deer became the first Mohawk woman to win a Gemini Award, for Club Native, a documentary on Mohawk identity, community, and tribal blood quantum laws.
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The film received the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Canada Award for best Canadian multi-cultural program, while Tracey Deer received another Gemini for best writing.
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In 2009, Tracey Deer collaborated with Montreal writer Cynthia Knight on Crossing the Line, a live-action 3D short for Digital Nations.
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Tracey Deer wants to produce her own short fiction films.
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In 2014, Tracey Deer wrote and produced the first season of Mohawk Girls, adapted from her documentary of the same name.
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In 2019, Tracey Deer joined the writing room for the third season of the television series Anne with an E, loosely based on the classic book Anne of Green Gables.
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Tracey Deer befriends Anne, and her family members are part of the season.
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Tracey Deer was concerned that she might yet face eviction because of her political activism; she had long opposed the eviction of non-Native spouses from housing on the reserve.