Chelsea McMullan facts for kids

Chelsea McMullan is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, best known for their 2013 film My Prairie Home, a film about transgender musician Rae Spoon.

McMullan is non-binary, and uses they/them pronouns.

Early life

McMullan grew up in Langley, British Columbia as an avid basketball player. They received a basketball scholarship to play at Brookswood Secondary School and were scouted to play at the university level in Canada, but eventually decided to pursue an interest in film.

Career

Chelsea McMullan studied film in the Department of Film (now Cinema and Media Arts) at York University in Toronto; graduating with a BFA (Specialized Honours) in 2007.

McMullan's early film credits include the documentary films Derailments (Deragliamenti) and The Way Must Be Tried, and the short films Plume and Bath Time.

McMullan has worked on several projects with the National Film Board of Canada. In addition to My Prairie Home, their prior films Mise en Scène and Deadman were made for the NFB; they first met Spoon when they wanted to secure rights to one of Spoon's songs as background music for Deadman.

My Prairie Home competed in the World Cinema Documentary program at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards.

McMullan's 2015 film World Famous Gopher Hole Museum was nominated for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards.

In 2022, McMullan and Tanya Tagaq collaborated on the film Ever Deadly. The film Crystal Pite: Angels' Atlas, profiling a dance work by ballet choreographer Crystal Pite, was also released in 2022.

In 2023, McMullan released Swan Song, a documentary film profiling Karen Kain as she prepares to retire from her career in dance.

McMullan's forthcoming projects include a documentary film, Michael Shannon Michael Shannon John, and a narrative feature film, Swan Killer.