Chelsea McMullan

Chelsea McMullan
Nationality Canadian
Occupation filmmaker
Known for My Prairie Home

Chelsea McMullan is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, best known for her 2013 film My Prairie Home, a film about transgender musician Rae Spoon.[1] The film is competing in the World Cinema Documentary program at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival,[2] and is a shortlisted nominee for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards.[3]

McMullan is associated with the National Film Board of Canada.[2] In addition to My Prairie Home, her prior films Mise en Scène and Deadman were made for the NFB; she first met Spoon when she wanted to secure rights to one of Spoon's songs as background music for Deadman.[4]

Her other film credits include the documentary films Deragliamenti (Derailments) and The Way Must Be Tried, and the short films Plume and Bath Time. Her forthcoming projects include a documentary film, Michael Shannon Michael Shannon John, and a narrative feature film, Swan Killer.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Interview with My Prairie Home Director Chelsea McMullan". Filmmaker, January 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Chelsea McMullan doc to compete at Sundance". Playback, December 4, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Canadian Screen Awards: Orphan Black, Less Than Kind, Enemy nominated". CBC News, January 13, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Chelsea McMullan bends genre, gender in musical-documentary about Rae Spoon". canada.com, September 30, 2013.

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