Kelly Fyffe-Marshall

Kelly Fyffe-Marshall
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active2016–present
Known forBlack Bodies

Kelly Fyffe-Marshall is a Canadian filmmaker[1] best known for her 2020 two-part short film Black Bodies,[2] which won the Changemaker Award at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival,[3] and won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021.[4]

Career

She has also directed the short films Reason Enough (2016), Haven (2018), Black White Blue (2018) and Trap City (2020), and has worked as an assistant director and production assistant on other film and television projects. She is also the co-founder of the production company Sunflower Studios, with Sasha Leigh Henry, Tamar Bird, and Iva Golubovic.[2][5]

Fyffe-Marshall won the Toronto Film Critics Association's Jay Scott Prize at the 2020 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards.[6]

In May 2022, Fyffe-Marshall was selected by David Cronenberg as the recipient of the "pay-it-forward" grant from his Clyde Gilmour Award package, and received $50,000 in post-production services on her feature film When Morning Comes,[7] which premiered in the Discovery program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.[8]

Personal life

Fyffe-Marshall was born in England, and currently resides in Brampton, Ontario.[2]

Filmography

  • Friends with Benefits (2016) – web series
  • Reason Enough (2016) – short film
  • Haven (2018) – short film
  • Black White Blue (2018) – short film
  • Trap City (2020) – short film
  • Black Bodies (2020) – short film
  • When Morning Comes (2022) – feature film
  • Bria Mack Gets a Life (2023) - TV series

References

  1. ^ "'Think about all we've lost': Black creatives confront the way Canada overlooks its Black talent - National | Globalnews.ca". Global News. Retrieved 2023-03-09.
  2. ^ a b c Ahearn, Victoria. "'Black Bodies' director Kelly Fyffe-Marshall making 'ripples' in Canadian film and TV". Battlefords News-Optimist. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  3. ^ Etan Vlessing, "Toronto: Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Wins Audience Award". The Hollywood Reporter, September 20, 2020.
  4. ^ Brent Furdyk (March 30, 2021). "Canadian Screen Awards Announces 2021 Film Nominations". ET Canada. Archived from the original on March 30, 2021.
  5. ^ Ho, Rachel (2023-10-10). "These Directors Failed to Pitch Spike Lee — but Succeeded in Pushing Canadian Filmmaking Forward". Exclaim!. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  6. ^ Etan Vlessing, "Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Named Best Picture by Toronto Film Critics Association". The Hollywood Reporter, February 7, 2021.
  7. ^ Victoria Ahearn, "David Cronenberg endows TFCA prize to Kelly Fyffe-Marshall". Playback, May 19, 2022.
  8. ^ Jeremy Kay, "Daniel Radcliffe as "Weird Al" Yankovic leads TIFF Midnight Madness; Discovery, Wavelength sections also unveiled". Screen Daily, August 4, 2022.