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brielle.adri.leblanc@gmail.com

Brielle LeBlanc (they/she) is an emerging filmmaker from and based in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia). Their debut short “The Year Long Boulder” (2022) won the NewFest + Vimeo Award for First-Time Filmmaker at NewFest: The New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival, before it was released online as a Vimeo Staff Pick. Their work has been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, ArtsNS, the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative, and the National Film Board of Canada.

In addition to their film practice, LeBlanc co-founded and runs Fleapit Cinema, a screening series that showcases independent contemporary Canadian cinema, where they’ve hosted artist talks with some of the country’s most exciting cinematic voices.

They have worked with the Atlantic International Film Festival, the Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, Women in Film and Television - Atlantic, and are currently employed at the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative. LeBlanc has over five years of experience in communications, marketing, and graphic design. In addition to multiple years of film production work in multiple departments, including grip, electric, and art, on a variety of television, film, and commercial sets.

LeBlanc is a harpist of twenty years and contributed to the scores of Pan & Syrinx by A. Laurel Lawrence and Glory’s Hole Antiverse by Kay Slauenwhite.

They have a Bachelor of Arts from the University of King’s College and Dalhousie University, where they majored in Cinema and Media Studies and double-minored in English and Contemporary Studies.

Brielle is grateful for the opportunity to live, work, and play on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Mi’kmaq people. The land is governed by the treaties of Peace and Friendship, first signed by the Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqey, Peskotomuhkatiyik, and the British Crown in 1726. These treaties did not implicate a land transfer, but recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqey title and set the rules for what was to be a long-standing relationship between nations. We are all treaty people, and it is our responsibility to continually listen and support Mi’kmaq perspectives and take care of the land.

Brielle LeBlanc

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