Pamela Matthews

Pamela Matthews is a Cree from the Sachigo Lake First Nation. She works as an actress, filmmaker, director, editor, producer and instructor with almost thirty years experience in the industry. She currently teaches Film Studies at Ryerson University and Centennial College. Pam has been teaching Filmmaking since 2002 for The American Indian Film Institute's Tribal Touring Program in San Francisco where she has overseen the production of approximately seventy-five short films. She also conducts workshops in filmmaking, editing, directing and acting for various organizations including Trinity Square Video, Planet IndigenUS and Planet in Focus. Pam received her Masters Degree in Film Production from York University, completed undergraduate Film Studies at Ryerson University and graduated from Ryerson Theatre School in 1989. She is currently completing a feature-length docudrama called Just Another Dead Indian about the wrongful deaths of Aboriginal men in Canada. n 2003, she received the GoldMedal for Outstanding Academic Achievement from Ryerson University's Department of Film. In 2007, Pam worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England where she appeared in Margaret Atwood's new play The Penelopiad, the first co-production between the RSC and Ottawa's National Arts Centre. Pam has appeared in theaters across the country, including The Rez Sisters at Alberta Theatre Projects, Sunshine Theatre, Theatre Aquarius and O'Kaadenigan Wiingashk. She is currently on the National Advisory Committee for Canada 300, a series of theatrical plays being produced across the country headed by the Watermark Theatre in Prince Edward Island. As a theatre director, she has directed numerous productions for theaters across the country including Magnus Theatre, Factory Theatre, Native Earth Performing Arts, Canadian Stage, The Center for Indigenous Theatre, Woodland Cultural Centre, Buddies in Bad Times and Two Planks and a Passion. Pam also studied directing at the Lincoln Center Theatre in New York City and at the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain in London, England. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous