Director Story

JONATHAN ELLIOTT is a Mohawk filmmaker from the Six Nations Reserve. He has worked as a director and cinematographer on a variety of projects including: Wild Archaeology, Friday Night Thunder, Voices From Here, Tsi Teyoto:te (Even in the Silence), Along the Water’s Edge and Her Water Drum. Jonathan’s award-winning body of work focuses on telling contemporary Indigenous stories that explore individuals’ complex relationships to their cultural identity, families and communities.

His projects have been internationally broadcast on TV and screened at over 75 international film festivals, including: imagineNATIVE, Vancouver International Film Festival, Red Nation International Film Festival, Maoriland Film Festival, etc.