
Camille Hollett-French
Acting
Biography
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

A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability to see, their father must protect his tribe against a threatened queen.
See

More than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe as class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.
Snowpiercer

Private detective Cassie Dewell partners with ex-cop Jenny Hoyt on a search for two sisters who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. When they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area, they must race against the clock to stop the perpetrator before another woman is taken.
Big Sky

Despite their opposing personalities, a talented but directionless P.I. who is the black sheep of his family begrudgingly agrees to work as the in-house investigator for his overbearing mother, a successful attorney reeling from the recent dissolution of her marriage.
So Help Me Todd

A group of strangers wake up in an abandoned hospital to find themselves stalked by a supernatural force with sinister intentions.
Kingdom Come

An app designed to bring its users happiness helps a man build the perfect life, which he ends up destroying when he learns the app is faulty.
hAPPiness

Author Nancy Crampton-Brophy often writes stories about female protagonists who fantasize about killing their own husbands. In a shocking and ironic turn of events, Brophy faces accusations of doing the same thing in real life.
How to Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story

Lives intertwine over the course of the Nuit Blanche art festival.
White Night

A young woman attempts to regain control of her body in a future where social media and the State operate as one.
FREYA

When a disillusioned woman is implicated in the disappearance of a lonely aging scientist, she must convince the police that hope has the power to bridge dimensions.
Spark

An exhaustive meta-analytic review documenting a mysterious ’women’s issue’, otherwise known as endometriosis.
ENDOMIC

Seventeen year old Mal, who has recently lost her father, is challenged to face her longtime fear of getting back onto her skateboard when she’s invited into a group of other young women skateboarders.
B-Side

A young mother visits her father in prison and has a profound realization.
Hush Little Baby

In this unfolding of a strained father-daughter relationship, Lacey, a young mother, visits her father Richard in a maximum-security penitentiary where he's serving a sentence for luring and attempting to have sex with a child. Lacey maintains a strong front until she finds herself with questions about Richard's past, ones that he can't get away from with answers she doesn't know how to handle. Lacey then sees something that shakes her to the core, forcing her to make a decision that will change their lives forever...