Catherine Bainbridge is a Canadian director, writer, and producer. She co-founded Rezolution Pictures, a Montreal-based film and television production company focusing primarily on Canadian Aboriginal productions, with director/writer/producer Ernest Webb in 2001.
Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana wrote and directed to highlight the role of Indigenous artists in American music history.
With Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond she codirected the award-winning 2009 documentary Reel Injun, about the portrayal of Native Americans in movies,[1] and the 2024 documentary Red Fever, about cultural appropriation and the Western world's pop culture fascination with the stereotypical imagery of Indigenous people.[2]
Year | Film | Director | Producer | Writer | Awards and Nominations | Notes | |
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2010 - 2017 | Mohawk Girls | Yes | Yes | Nominated - Canadian Screen Award for Best Comedy Series (2010, 2016) | TV series | ||
2017 | Yes | Yes | Won - Biograflim Festival Audience Award for Biografilm Music (2017)Won - Boulder International Film Festival Best Music Documentary (2017) Won - Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Audience Award, Best Documentary (2017) Won - Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize in Masterful Storytelling for World Cinema - Documentary (2017) Nominated - Sydney Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary (2017) Nominated - Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival Golden Alexander in International Competition (2017) Nominated - Cleveland International Film Festival Music Movies Competition (2017) | Documentary | |||
2016 | Butterhead's Guide to the Galaxy | Yes | TV mini-series | ||||
2015 | The Oka Legacy | Yes | Documentary | ||||
2014 | The Wolverine: The Fight of the James Bay Cree | Yes | Documentary Short | ||||
2014 | Working It Out Together II | Yes | TV series documentary | ||||
2012 | Smoke Traders | Yes | Yes | Yes | Documentary | ||
2011 | Working It Out Together | Yes | TV series documentary | ||||
2010 | Independent Lens | Yes | Yes | Yes | TV series documentary | ||
2010 | Down the Mighty River | Yes | Yes | TV mini-series Documentary | |||
2009 | Reel Injun | Yes | Yes | Yes | Won - Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Program, Canada Award (2009)Nominated - Gemini Award - Donald Brittain Award (2010) | Documentary | |
2008 | Club Native | Yes | Documentary | ||||
2007 | Moose TV | Yes | TV series | ||||
2007 | Mommy, Mommy | Yes | Yes | TV movie documentary | |||
2004 | Heavy Metal: A Mining Disaster in Northern Quebec | Yes | Yes | Documentary | |||
2004 | One More River: The Deal That Split the Cree | Yes | Documentary | ||||
2013 | Indians + Aliens I | Yes | TV series documentary | ||||
2009 | The Last Explorer | Yes | Documentary |