Camille Hollett-French
Camille Hollett-French is an award-winning Trinidadian-Canadian 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 £20,000 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. She's appeared in shows 'The Twilight Zone,' 'Motherland: Fort Salem,' 'Nancy Drew' and 'Valley of the Boom' playing the real-life person Tara Hernandez, a manager at Silicon Valley's 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 non-visible 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 Craghopper's 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 Sci-Fi. The script for 'No. 2: Hush Little Baby' was the first short film script to win LiveRead/LA.
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, Women's 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 Director's Chair Story & Leadership program and the Whistler Film Festival's Producers Lab.
| Known For | Acting |
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| Most Rating | 0.2559 |
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| Place of Birth | Montréal, Québec, Canada |
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2014
Kingdom Come
4.6/62
A group of strangers wake up in an abandoned hospital to find themselves stalked by a supernatural force with sinister intentions.
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Kingdom Come
2024
Hush Little Baby
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A young mother visits her father in prison and has a profound realization.
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Hush Little Baby
2021
ENDOMIC
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An exhaustive meta-analytic review documenting a mysterious ’women’s issue’, otherwise known as endometriosis.
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ENDOMIC
2017
White Night
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Lives intertwine over the course of the Nuit Blanche art festival.
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White Night
2023
How to Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story
6.3/22
Author Nancy Crampton-Brophy often writes stories about female protagonists who fantasize about killing their own husbands. In a shocking and ironic t...
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How to Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story
2018
Her Story No. 2: Hush Little Baby
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In this unfolding of a strained father-daughter relationship, Lacey, a young mother, visits her father Richard in a maximum-security penitentiary wher...
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