Courtney Montour
Courtney Montour is a Kanien’kehá:ka writer and director from Kahnawà:ke whose works have screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and Margaret Mead. Her film Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again (21) won Best Documentary Short at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and the American Indian Film Festival. She is a recipient of the 2022 NDN Collective Changemaker Fellowship and the 2023 Flaherty Film Seminar Fellowship. The Knowing (24), a four-part CBC docuseries adapted from author and journalist Tanya Talaga’s book of the same name is her latest project. Courtney was named Playback’s 2024 TV Directors of the Year, alongside Talaga for their series The Knowing.
She is directing her first feature doc on Indigenous Rising, a borderless Nation team representing Turtle Island in flat track roller derby.
