
Millefiore Clarkes
Directing
Biography
Millefiore Clarkes (also called Mille Clarkes), is a Canadian filmmaker from Prince Edward Island. She has produced music videos, experimental shorts and documentary films, as well as commercials. She owns and operates One Thousand Flowers Productions.
Known For

Chad Matthews, who lives a simple life of local fame as a Stompin’ Tom tribute musician, is a man whose life hasn’t taken him where he thought it would.
Then Sings My Soul

Musician Catherine MacLellan—the daughter of Canadian singer/songwriting legend Gene MacLellan—grew up surrounded by her father’s music. He committed suicide when she was 14. The Song and the Sorrow follows Catherine as she journeys to understand her father and face her own struggles with mental illness. Through archival footage and intimate interviews with friends, family members, and musicians who knew and played with Gene—including Anne Murray, Lennie Gallant, and the late Ron Hynes—the film reveals a troubled and loving man who was never at ease with fame or money.
The Song and the Sorrow

When COVID protocols impose restrictions on human interaction, Millefiore Clarkes seizes the opportunity to reflect on the nature of love itself, juxtaposing her own existential quest with those of a teenager grappling with identity and self-worth in a time of social distancing, and a woman who finds surprising new romance despite pandemic isolation.
Love in Quarantine

Part oral history and part visual poem, Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher is the story of Evelyn Campbell, a trailblazer for an Inuit-led educational system in the small community of Rigolet, Labrador.
Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher

Josh Crooks is a promising teen hockey star in a sport where Black players like him are chronically underrepresented. Ice Breakers reveals the buried history of a pioneering Black hockey league in Atlantic Canada, as Crooks discovers that his unshakable passion is tied to a rich and remarkable heritage.
Ice Breakers

This short film pays tribute to beloved Canadian country rock band Blue Rodeo. They've been traveling the highways and back roads of Canada for almost 30 years, bringing their music to audiences far and wide, and building a passionate and dedicated fan base.
Blue Rodeo: On the Road
This lyrical, dramatic film explores the anguish that climate change and a global state of uncertainty can impart upon the human psyche.
Solastalgia

This short documentary takes a look at the changing face of PEI's agricultural industry. Once famous for its spuds and red mud, this tiny island province now has higher than average cancer and respiratory illness rates. Is there a link to industrialized farming? Rather than dwelling on PEI's worrisome mono-cropping practices, Island Green dares to ask: What if PEI went entirely organic? The stirring words of PEI-born poet Tanya Davis are coupled with beautiful imagery and poignant stories from the island's small but growing community of organic farmers, reminding us that we can rob the land only so much before it robs us of the nourishment we need for life. Island Green is ultimately a story of hope and a healthy promise.
Island Green

A brief impression of everything. An attempt to glimpse oneness, in the face of escalating world division and disassociation. A lyrical film culled from footage accumulated over more than a decade of productions, old family archives, and stock sources.
An Impression of Everything
Portraying the uniqueness of intergenerational relationships, three young artists (a dancer, a musician and an animator) weave their work with tales of hardship and humour told by three grandmothers.
Grandmothers

A compassionate new documentary from award-winning filmmaker Millefiore Clarkes. It centers on Evelyn Christopher, a 94-year-old farmer who still wakes up at dawn to work her fields. She grows vegetables, stacks firewood and doesn’t really care for contemporary society.
Evelyn
In this dreamlike journey across the North American landscape, Stalking Love weaves together seemingly dissimilar realities. The human relationship to "love" is explored through the perspectives of the prostitute, the homeless man, the preacher, the business man, and a myriad of others.
Stalking Love
As global crises intersect, dovetail, and cascade on the horizon during one hot summer on Prince Edward Island, the humans on one small island cradled in the Atlantic pursue the habits and necessities of life in a late-stage capitalist milieu.
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A lyrical gaze at the city of Toronto as seen one September not long ago.
September in Toronto

In Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, there occurs a daily natural phenomenon. At dusk thousands of crows appear, as if out of no where, in the sky over the city, and flock to Victoria Park at the water’s edge. They amass in such numbers that they turn entire trees black and fill the sky with a symphony of haunting cries.
Crows and Branches

Moments before boarding a plane to Toronto, the Director's boyfriend handed her the challenge of documenting her six day journey. The result is a six minute sense-weaving experience.