Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush is an Innu filmmaker from Nutashkuan, Quebec, Canada."L’amour du 7e art de Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush". Ici Radio-Canada Première, February 23, 2023. She is most noted as director of Do Not Tell (Ne le dis pas / Nika tshika uiten mishkut), which was the winner of the Best Short Documentary award at the 2010 ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival,Anne-Marie Yvon, "Porter un regard sur soi la caméra au poing". Ici Radio-Canada Espaces Autochtones, October 26, 2019. and co-director with Julien G. Marcotte of Katshinau (Les Mains sales), which won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2023 Vancouver International Film FestivalV.S. Wells, "VIFF announces award winners". The Georgia Straight, October 5, 2023. and was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2023.Pat Mullen, "TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten Includes BlackBerry, Solo, Humanist Vampire". That Shelf, December 6, 2023.
Bellefleur-Kaltush trained at the Institut national de l'image et du son (INIS) in Quebec.
She has also directed episodes of the children's television series Couleurs du nord, and had an acting role in the television series Les Oubliettes.
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