Write Over Here: Indigenous Screenwriting Residency 2025

Roxann Whitebean is a formidable media artist who hails from the Mohawk Territories of Kahnawà:ke and Akwesasne. She made her directorial debut in 2014 and is represented by Vanguarde Artists Management LTD. as a writer, director and producer. Her work can be seen on the CBC, Paramount +, CBS, APTN, TVO Kids, PBS and film festivals worldwide. She is a National Screen Institute, Women In View and Whistler Film Festival Alumni. She won the International Indigenous Filmmaker Award at the Montréal First Peoples Film Festival and is a recipient of the REVAL Indigenous Arts Award. She has been nominated for Canadian Screen awards and Hot Docs’ Lindalee Tracey Award. She was profiled in Playback Magazine and was selected as a (top 25) for the Diversity of Voices initiative, hosted by the BANFF World Media Festival. Her upcoming releases as a writer and director include Rose, Pulse (doc) & Two Horn (doc). Her work as a writer in scripted narratives include SkyMed and Diggstown4, set to be released in 2023. 

Amber-Sekowan Daniels is an Anishininew screenwriter, showrunner and comedian. She was born and raised in Winnipeg and is a band member of Garden Hill First Nation.

Amber is the creator and showrunner of the coming-of-age comedy Don’t Even for Crave and APTN. She was also a co-creator and co-showrunner on season 1 of the CTV Comedy/ APTN series Acting Good. Amber was in the room for CBC’s Trickster and co-wrote on Diggstown III for CBC. 

Amber’s stand-up comedy has been featured in the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, Oddblock Comedy Festival and on CBC’s The Debaters. She was a participant in the 2018 Whistler Film Festival Indigenous Filmmaker Fellowship and the 2019 Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices initiative. She was awarded Reel World Film Festival’s 2021 Trailblazer award.

Ryan is a Cree, Native American and dual US citizen from the Little Pine Reserve as well as an international award winning writer/director. He has studied at New York’s Circle in the Square Theater School and holds a Joint MFA in Screenwriting and Film Production from The University of British Columbia as well as graduating from Netflix’s Pacific Screenwriting Program in 2021. 

He has gathered numerous international awards, grants and screenings and in 2022 was staffed as a Story Editor on the Paramount + series “Skymed” S2. He has also recently completed his first co-write for CW's "Sullivan's Crossing" and is currently repped by 3 Arts out of Beverly Hills.

Janine Windolph (Atikamekw/Woodland Cree) is a Saskatchewan-based filmmaker, video editor, educator, fine-craft artist, and storyteller. She is the Director of Indigenous Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Prior, Janine was the Curator of Community Engagement at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan. She has her Master of Fine Arts: Interdisciplinary in Indigenous Fine Art and Media Production.

Janine was a co-producer for RIIS Media Project Inc wherein she co-directed RIIS from Amnesia: Recovering the Lost Legacies (feature-length documentary) that features the history of the Regina Indian Industrial School (RIIS). 

Janine’s filmography includes roles as producer, director, narrator, writer and/or editor.  She directed Stories Are In Our Bones, Lifegivers: Honoring Our Elders and Children, The Land of Rock and Gold, Ayapiyâhk ôma niyanân “Only us, we are here at home,”

Janine is working with Buffalo Mountain Banff; a community group to Buffalo Mountain, and providing production support to the Buffalo Mountain Video Project that is part of her sons’ homeschooling.