Michelle Mohabeer
Dr. Michelle Mohabeer was born in Guyana/South American and lives in Toronto, she is a multi award-winning filmmaker/media artist, film scholar, academic and writer who earned her PhD from the University of Toronto in (2006). She was recognized as “best female filmmaker 2020” by the Berlin Underground Film Festival for her second creative feature documentary, Queer Coolie-tudes (2019), which was awarded Direction Excellence from Docs Without Borders and won the “Intersect Award” from the 15th Caribbean Tales International Film Festival. Queer Coolie-tudes had its Canadian premiere at the 28th Inside Out Film Festival and its European premier in the media library collection of the 50th Visions du Reel in Switzerland and theatrically at the International Queer and Migrant Film Festival in Amsterdam. Prior films include the feature essay documentary, Blu In You (2008), the Inside Out commissioned short film Echoes (2003), the Canada Council/Making Scenes Ottawa commissioned Tracing Soul (2000), her MFA experimental narrative, Child-Play (1996), TWO/DOH (1996), Coconut/Cane & Cutlass (1994), and the commissioned Five Feminist Minutes short, EXPOSURE (1990) which was produced by the National Film Board of Canada (former-studio D women’s unit). Mohabeer’s films have exhibited worldwide at over 300 festivals, conferences, and galleries, and collected by over 60 University libraries across the U.S, Canada, and in the Caribbean. Her films have been profiled or written about in Film Fatales: Independent Women Directors, The Romance of Transgression in Canada, North of Everything, The Bent Lens, Queering Canada: A Collection of Essays, and the article, “Putting the Cool in Coolie: Disidentification, Desire and Dissent in the work of filmmaker, Michelle Mohabeer” in The Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, among others. Dr. Mohabeer teaches at York University in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies and in the Department of Communications at Glendon campus. Future projects include: a feature documentary, and she is the contributing editor of a critical anthology, Reframing the Nation: Indigenous, Racialized & Queer BIPOC Canadian Independent Women Filmmakers 1990-2020.
Dre Michelle Mohabeer est née en Guyane et vit à Toronto, au Canada. Elle est une cinéaste primée et une professeure universitaire. Son deuxième long métrage documentaire, Queer Coolie-tudes (2019) lui a valu le titre de « meilleure réalisatrice de 2020 » au Festival du film underground de Berlin, un prix d’excellence pour sa réalisation au festival Docs Without Borders, et le prix « Intersect » au 15e Festival international Caribbean Tales. Ses films précédents incluent l’essai documentaire Blu In You (2008); Coconut/Cane & Cutlass (1994); divers courts métrages tournés entre 1990 et 2003 : Echoes (2003), Tracing Soul (2000), TWO/DOH (1996), EXPOSURE (1990); et la fiction expérimentale Child-Play (1996). Les films de Mohabeer ont été présentés mondialement dans plus de 300 festivals, conférences et galeries, et ils sont inclus dans plus de 60 collections de bibliothèques universitaires à travers les États-Unis, le Canada et les Caraïbes. On a écrit à propos de ses films dans Film Fatales: Independent Women Directors, The Romance of Transgression in Canada, North of Everything, The Bent Lens, Queering Canada: A Collection of Essays, et l’article “Putting the Cool in Coolie: Disidentification, Desire and Dissent in the work of filmmaker, Michelle Mohabeer” a été publié dans The Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. Michelle Mohabeer enseigne à l’Université York dans le cadre du programme Études des femmes et de genre.
