Dianne Ouellette (she/her) is a Métis producer, writer, director, multimedia artist and curator. She completed her MFA in Media Production (2020).
Dianne is Chair of the Board of Directors for Sâkêwêwak and a long-time member of the Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative. She facilitated online digital media workshops for Listen to Dis’ Community Arts Organization (LTD) members and collaborated with them during the pandemic to create Mine to Have (2021), a digital adaptation of a theatre play, and a music video, Sea of Love (2021). Her current film practice focus’ on lost culture and language. She completed aen loo pawatamihk (wolf dream) (2020) and a short digital production, lii bufloo aen loo kishkishiw (buffalo wolf memory) (2022). She is currently writing her first narrative feature film, ann louise goes to Hollywood, developing a documentary, Stol(l)’en, about her murdered grandmother, and is developing a collaborative film series, Thahyu:ni: akaowa:tsi (wolf blood) with her adopted Oneida Nation family.
Her films have been screened and awarded internationally at festivals including; ImagineNATIVE + Media Arts, Wairoa Māori, Māoriland, Slamdance, Antimatter [media art], Dawson City International, Ann Arbor, OurToba, Asinabka, Gimme Some Truth Documentary, Saskatchewan International Film Awards, Saskatchewan International, Regina International, Female Eye, Images, Splitski Filmski, and many more. Some exhibitions and installations include The Autobiographical Animal, exploration of animality & posthuman narrative – Deluge.ca, Nuit Blanche, and Gallerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris.
Dianne has focused her lens on family, history, and identity for more than 30 years, working in analog and digital media. Sharing through film, video, photography, digital, soundscapes, and writing, fulfills her passion for storytelling. Mentoring others to make creative content that connects and motivates people is valuable in her creative goals.
