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Thrush is currently the artistic director of Making Treaty 7 Culture Society and a busy film, television and theatre actress. Her most recent credit is the film Bones of Crows, filmmaker Marie Clements’ drama about residential schools, and Crave’s Little Bird. She has also starred in Blackstone, a role that won her three Alberta Film and Television Awards and a Canadian Screen Award nomination; Northern Exposure and North of 60.
Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, and with Johnny Depp in 1995’s Dead Man. In 2022, she was part of an all-Indigenous cast of the Alberta-shot sci-fi action film Prey, the latest instalment of the Predator franchise. Filmmakers Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis. They will receive a Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Award.Forbis and Tilby have been nominated for three Oscars for their films and won the prestigious Palme d’Or for best short film at Cannes. The
Calgary filmmakers received their most recent Oscar nomination for their 2022 animated short, The Flying Sailor, a surreal film about a British soldier being blown into the sky during the 1917 Halifax Explosion.1999’s When the Day Breaks and 2012’s Wild Life. Tilby’s 1991 solo effort, Strings, was also nominated.Ouchi has spent 30 years as a theatre and film director, screenwriter and playwright. Her plays include 2014’s The Red Priest , which picked up the Carol Bolt Prize.