[1] She is most noted for her short film Snip, which was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list in 2016.
[2] Calder was born in Fort Frances, Ontario.
She attended the University of Manitoba's Fine Art program where she studied drawing and film.
[3] Calder, a Métis from Fort Frances, Ontario, released her first short film Canned Meat in 2009.
[4] In 2011 she was the animator on Michelle Latimer's short film Choke, which was a Genie Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the 32nd Genie Awards in 2012,[5] and on her own short film The Gift, which won the Kent Monkman Award for Best Experimental/Innovation in Storytelling at the 2011 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival.