Laura Rietveld

Laura Rietveld is a documentary filmmaker and laureate of the Counsel of Arts and Letters of Quebec Prize for Emerging Montreal Artist. Her work has appeared online, on television, and in cinema in English, Inuktitut, and French. Her first documentary, Okpik’s Dream (2015) won Grand Prix Rigoberta Menchú Award, Montreal First Peoples’ Festival, Honourary Mention for the Grand Prize, Innsbruck International Nature Festival, Austria, and was nominated for Best Documentary Program, Canadian Screen Awards. Her first music video, Broke Down Ski’Tuuq was nominated for Best Music Video, Performance, Native American Music Awards (2018). Laura’s latest feature documentary, The Family of the Forest (2022), selected for First Pitch, Forum RIDM (2018), workshopped with Sundance Collab (2021) has been nearly seven years in the making. Laura was not always a filmmaker. In 2010, frustrated by a lack of diverse and meaningful stories told by mainstream media, Laura resigned from a successful corporate media career. Laura holds an MBA from the Ivey School of Business and a BA in History from Queen’s University. She lives in rural Quebec with her family, surrounded by the beauty of nature.