Camille Hollett-French

Camille HollettFrench is an awardwinning TrinidadianCanadian actor director writer model and advocate Her films have screened at more than 40 festivals globally and her short film FREYA won five of the nine Leo Awards that it was nominated for including Best VFX Best Direction and Best Short Film She is the winner of the 20000 Craghoppers Film Prize the largest cash prize for a short for her first film Hush Little Baby It was part of the short film series Her Story In Three Parts which she wrote directed produced and starred in Camille was born in Montreal to a father from Newfoundland and a mother from Trinidad She moved to Toronto as a teenager and now resides in Vancouver Shes appeared in shows The Twilight Zone Motherland Fort Salem Nancy Drew and Valley of the Boom playing the reallife person Tara Hernandez a manager at Silicon Valleys 90s tech company Netscape the famed startup responsible for Mozilla Firefox Her short film ENDOMIC was made for the Symbiosis Filmmaking Competition through Imagine Science NYC whereby six filmmakers are chosen worldwide to partner with a scientist to make a film in eight days from concept to completion It premiered at Slamdance 2021 for the first Unstoppable program for filmmakers with visible and nonvisible disabilities In 2017 Camille began making Her Story In Three Parts It was a finalist for the Cayle Chernin Awards She then made her first film the second installment of the series No 2 Hush Little Baby through the YEAA Shorts program at ACTRA Toronto which won Best Debut at the Discover Film Awards in London and the Craghoppers Film Prize The same festival later awarded No 3 In the Absence of Angels with Best Director and Best International Drama and FREYA with Best International SciFi The script for No 2 Hush Little Baby was the first short film script to win LiveReadLA Her films have screened at festivals including but not limited to Slamdance Fantasia The Awareness Film Fest Vancouver Short Film Festival Oslo Independent Film Festival Canadian Film Festival Womens Film Festival Rhode Island Palm Springs ShortsFest Newport Beach Film Fest Aesthetica UK Underwire UK and Female Eye Film Festival Camille is an alum of the Women In the Directors Chair Story Leadership program and the Whistler Film Festivals Producers Lab