Biography

Kelly Saxberg is a multilingual award-winning filmmaker and educator best known for her body of work featuring Ontario history and remarkable women. With a career spanning over 40 years she has made more than 100 films. In 2025, she produced and co-directed with Navalik Tologanak the 48 minute documentary A Tale of Two Qallunaat . In 2024 she co-directed Mr. Noah and the Second Flood which garnered multiple awards, winning the top prize at the CTV best in Shorts 2025. She is producer, co-director, cinematographer of Sniper / Tireur d’Elite nominated for Best historical documentary at Yorkton. She produced and filmed Silent Cries -Kiayunik Tuhanak, nominated for best biographical documentary at Yorkton.

In 2019, she was the cinematographer and co-producer of Journey to Our Homeland. Nominated for 3 Golden Sheaf awards, it won the Research award. In 2019, her bilingual docu-drama Where the Poppies Grow - The Lakehead at War was nominated for a Golden Sheaf Award for Best Historical Documentary. In 2017, she completed Long Walk Home: The Incredible Journey of Sheila Burnford, a 34-minute documentary. In 2025 she completed the 6 part series The View from Up Here as Producer / Editor. Kelly was the writer/ director/ editor of Under The Red Star, a docu-drama shot on 16mm film. Citoyens du Monde is a 6-hour series she wrote and directed for TFO. The Gemini nominated Letters From Karelia won her best Director and Best Documentary at the Manitoba Motion Picture Industry Awards. Her other films include Seeking Bimaadiziiwin, Dorothea Mitchell: A Reel Pioneer, Le Printemps des voyageurs: La Genèse, the award-winning Banana Split, and the NFB production Rosies of the North.
- IMDb mini biography by: Kelly Saxberg