Camille Hollett-French is currently based in Vancouver. She was born in Montreal to a Newfie father and a Trinidadian mother. Starting out as an actor in shows like, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, VALLEY OF THE BOOM, MOTHERHOOD: FORT SALEM and NANCY DREW, Camille began her filmmaking career in 2017 when she wrote, directed, produced and acted in the short film series HER STORY (IN THREE PARTS). The script for NO.2: HUSH LITTLE BABY was the first short film script to win LiveRead/LA and received Best Debut at the Discover Film Awards in London, where it went on to win the Craghopper’s Film Prize valued at 20,000 Euros. The same festival later awarded NO. 3: IN THE ABSENCE OF ANGELS with Best Director and Best International drama. Camille’s films have also screened at festivals including Slamdance (for which she is now a programmer), The Awareness Film Festival (Special Jury Innovation Award), Oslo Independent Film Festival (Best Writer), Canadian Film Festival (Special Jury Award), Women’s Film Festival (Best First Time Filmmaker) and the Female Eye Film Festival, where all three parts of the HER STORY film series was screened as part of their inaugural International Women’s Day event at the TIFF Lightbox Theatre in Toronto. Camille was among the 2019 cohort of the Women In the Director’s Chair Story & Leadership program to develop her feature film script, MAN IN PIECES and was selected to further develop the same project at the 2020 Whistler Film Festival Producer’s Lab.
Awards & Nominations
No. 1: A Simple Act
2019 Platinum Award: Best Women Short, Independent Shorts Awards, LA, USA
2019 Platinum Award: Best Acting Ensemble, Independent Shorts Awards, LA, USA
2019 Bronze Award: Best Original Story, Independent Shorts Awards, LA, USA
No. 2: Hush Little Baby
2018 £20,000 Grand Prize – Craghoppers Film Prize, Best Debut Film, THE DISCOVER FILM AWARDS, London, UK
2018 Special Jury Innovation Award, Awareness Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA
2018 Best Writer, Oslo Independent Film Festival, Oslo, Norway
2017 LiveRead/LA with Industry Insider Mickey Fisher, First short film script to be awarded read in front of a live audition at the ACME Theater, LA, USA
2017 Resident of YEAA Shorts, ACTRA’s Young Emerging Artists Assembly’s short film program in association with William F. White and the Reel World Film Festival
Toronto, Canada
2017 Nomination, Best Drama Short, Best Director-Drama Short, Best Actress-Short Film, Twister Alley Film Festival, Woodward, Mississippi, USA
No. 3: In the Absence of Angels
2019 Best International Drama, Best Director, Craghoppers Film Prize Alum
The Discover Film Awards, London, UK
2019 Best First Time Filmmaker, Women’s Film Festival, Philadelphia, USA
2019 Special Jury Prize, Best Short, Honourable Mention, Canadian Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
Her Story (In Three Parts)
2020 Lindalee Tracey Awards in association with Hot Docs, Finalist
2017 Cayle Chernin Awards, Finalist
Sitting Duck
2019 MPPIA Short Film Award in association with Whistler Film Festival, Finalist