Caroline Monnet is this year’s recipient of the 2023 Merata Mita Fellowship. A press release announced that the Anishinaabe/French multidisciplinary artist from Outaouais, Quebec has been selected for the annual Sundance Institute fellowship named in honor of late Māori filmmaker Merata Mita, which was “created for Indigenous women-identified artists poised to direct their first feature film.” Monnet’s work has been programmed in exhibitions and festivals such as Sundance, TIFF, and Cannes, and in 2016 she was selected for the Cinéfondation residency in Paris.
“After years of watching her work evolve across many mediums, selecting Caroline Monnet as this year’s Merata Mita Fellow not only made sense, but her oeuvre also