Petie Chalifoux

I am a Cree filmmaker from Northern Alberta. I have chosen to be a filmmaker because it is a powerful and creative medium to shed light upon the realities of the social issues that surround the world we live in today from an Indigenous perspective. The first short dramatic film I wrote and produced is titled “The Shifter”, a film that speaks to reclaiming power for an Indigenous woman. The Shifter screened at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco as well as the LA Skins Film Festival in Los Angeles, California in November 2015. Since the making of The Shifter I have since written and produced a feature length film titled “River Of Silence”. With this film I hope to bring a worldwide awareness to the issue of murdered and missing Indigenous women and violence against all women