Shane Belcourt

Shane Belcourt is an award-winning Métis filmmaker, writer, and musician based in Toronto. His debut feature film, Tkaronto, screened at many international film festivals, winning the Best Director prize at the 2008 Dreamspeakers Film Festival and 2008 Talking Stick Film Festival. He was been nominated twice for a Canadian Screen Award. He co-directed, with Lisa Jackson, the award-winning CBC Firsthand documentary Indictment, which was given the 2017 imagineNATIVE Best Documentary Award, he was series creator, executive producer, and show-runner for the APTN music documentary series Amplify. He was a TIFF Talent Lab participant, an IFC Mentorship Award recipient, and a Filmmaker in Residence at the Winnipeg Film Group. His father, Tony Belcourt, was the founding President of the Métis Nation of Ontario. We list his credits as a director first.

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Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release

The Squeeze Box (2005, short)
Pookums (2006, short)
Tkaronto (2007)
Vistas: Boxed In (2009, short)

Keeping Quiet (2010, short)
F*%K Yeah!! (2010, short)
Say Yes (2012, short)
A Common Experience (2013, short)
Kaha:wi – The Cycle of Life (2014, documentary)
Indictment: The Crimes of Shelly Chartier (co-directed, TV-2017)
Red Rover (2018)

The Beautiful Scars of Tom Wilson (2021, documentary)

TV Series – at least 1 episode of:
Urban Native Girl (2016)

Credits as a Screenwriter:
The Squeeze Box (2005, short)
Pookums (2006, short)
Tkaronto (2007)
Vistas: Boxed In (2009, short)

Keeping Quiet (2010, short)
F*%K Yeah!! (2010, short)
Say Yes (2012, short)
A Common Experience (2013, short)
Kaha:wi – The Cycle of Life (2014, documentary)
Indictment: The Crimes of Shelly Chartier (co-directed, TV-2017)
Red Rover (co-writer, 2018)

TV Series – at least 1 episode of:
Urban Native Girl (2016)