Birth Place: | Nutashkuan, Quebec, Canada |
Alma Mater: | Institut national de l'image et du son |
Occupation: | Filmmaker |
Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush is an Innu filmmaker from Nutashkuan, Quebec, Canada.[1] She is most noted as director of Do Not Tell (Ne le dis pas / Nika tshika uiten mishkut), which was the winner of the Best Short Documentary award at the 2010 ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival,[2] and co-director with Julien G. Marcotte of Katshinau (Les Mains sales), which won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival[3] and was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2023.[4]
Bellefleur-Kaltush trained at the Institut national de l'image et du son (INIS) in Quebec.[5] [6]
She has also directed episodes of the children's television series Couleurs du nord, and had an acting role in the television series Les Oubliettes.