Courtney Montour
Courtney Montour is a Kanien’kehá:ka writer and director from Kahnawà:ke (Canada) whose award-winning documentaries include Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again (National Film Board of Canada '21). Courtney was named Playback’s 2024 TV Directors of the Year, alongside Tanya Talaga, for their CBC doc series The Knowing (Toronto International Film Festival '24), adapted from Talaga’s book of the same name. The duo was awarded Best Writing, Documentary for the series at the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards. Rising Through the Fray ('25), produced by Nish Media in association with CBC documentary Channel, is Courtney’s debut feature.
